Adding "selected" attribute to the selected option in PHP

Question

I'm creating my page builder but I have little problem with select box.

This is how I create a selectbox via jQuery

    var item_opts = '<select>'
        + '<option value="red">Red</option>'
        + '<option value="green">Green</option>'
        + '<option value="blue">Blue</option>'
        + '<option value="yellow">Yellow</option>'
    + '</select>'

$('.items_options').append(item_opts);

And this is how I call it in PHP

<select>
  <?php if ( $pb_item['message_color'] == "red" ) { ?>
    <option selected="selected" value="red">Red</option>
    <option value="green">Green</option>
    <option value="blue">Blue</option>
    <option value="yellow">Yellow</option>
  <?php } elseif ( $pb_item['message_color'] == "green" ) { ?>
    <option value="red">Red</option>
    <option selected="selected" value="green">Green</option>
    <option value="blue">Blue</option>
    <option value="yellow">Yellow</option>
  <?php } elseif ( $pb_item['message_color'] == "blue" ) { ?>
    <option value="red">Red</option>
    <option value="green">Green</option>
    <option selected="selected" value="blue">Blue</option>
    <option value="yellow">Yellow</option>
  <?php } else { ?>
    <option value="red">Red</option>
    <option value="green">Green</option>
    <option value="blue">Blue</option>
    <option selected="selected" value="yellow">Yellow</option>
  <?php } ?>                      
</select>

Is there some better solution how how to add parametr "selected" to the selected option than I have?

thx for your time and your advices :)

Michael Berkowski · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-06 16:19:57Z

5

Yes, there is better solution

<select>
    <option <? ($pb_item['message_color'] == 'red'?'selected="selected"') ?> value="red">Red</option>
    <option <? ($pb_item['message_color'] == 'green'?'selected="selected"') ?> value="green">Green</option>
    <option <? ($pb_item['message_color'] == 'blue'?'selected="selected"') ?> value="blue">Blue</option>
    <option <? ($pb_item['message_color'] == 'yellow'?'selected="selected"') ?> value="yellow">Yellow</option>                   
</select>

even if you can list options via for loop for example:

$colors = array('blue', 'red', ..);
foreach($colors as $color) {
    echo "<option ".($pb_item['message_color'] == $color?'selected="selected"')."value='$color'>" . ucwords($color) . "</option>";
}

edited Jan 6, 2013 at 16:19

Michael Berkowski

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answered Jan 6, 2013 at 16:10

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2 Comments

hakre Over a year ago

And yes, there is even a better solution. And psst, we have this on the website already.

Jakub Kohout Over a year ago

Thx so much :) It deffinately helped me :)

Joel Jerushan · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-30 12:41:48Z

Those Who Trouble Understanding Previous Selected Answer by @vlcekmi3 here some other easy & dirty explanation.

$colors = array(
    1 => 'blue', 
    2 => 'red', ..); //init your array with key & value

foreach($colors as $key => $color) { // a loop 

    //print <option value="red"
    echo "<option value=".$key; 

    //print selected if your selected value matched -
    //please check before you echo 'selected' add a space before that
    //you will thank me later
    if($pb_item['message_color'] == $color){ echo " selected"; } 

    // close option with print '>'
    echo '>'; 

    // print your color name
    echo $color; 

    //print </option>
    echo "</option>"; 

}

what i Explained here is May be a Dirty Way but this code will help you understand how value will be returned to your view.

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