Question

I am trying to load a drop down option values based on database information. I have the following code and its working fine but I don’t know how to code in the following to show the selected value.

$output = null;

foreach ($records->result() as $row) {
    $output .= "<option value='".$row->sub_category_id."'>".$row->sub_category_name."</option>";
}
return $output;

I know I should be using something like following, but I can’t understand how to put the following code together with the above codes.

 if ($row->sub_category_id == $sub_category_id) {select="selected"}

Could you please show me?
thanks 🙂

Answer 1

You almost finished it correctly. here you go:

$output = null;

foreach ($records->result() as $row){
   $selected="";
   if($row->sub_category_id==$sub_category_id) $selected="selected";
   $output .= "<option $selected value='".$row->sub_category_id."'>".$row->sub_category_name."</option>";

}
return $output;