Question

I have a drop down generated with php.

<select name="diploma" id="diploma-<? echo $edu['id']; ?>">
                    <? foreach($diplomas->result_array() as $diploma) {
          echo "<option    value=".$diploma['id'].">".$diploma['name']."</option>";
                            } ?>
</select>

I also have <? echo $edu['diploma']; ?> which is a value from the database. I want to add selected="selected" to the option in the drop down which matches this value. Should I just use jquery? What’s the best way to do this?

Answer 1

You can check inside the loop like this:

<select name="diploma" id="diploma-<? echo $edu['id']; ?>">
    <? 
    foreach($diplomas->result_array() as $diploma) 
        {
            if($edu['diploma']==$diploma['name'])
            {
                echo "<option selected ='selected' value=".$diploma['id'].">".$diploma['name']."</option>";
            }
            else
            {
                echo "<option value=".$diploma['id'].">".$diploma['name']."</option>";
            }
        } 
    ?>
</select>

Or to make the code shorter:

<select name="diploma" id="diploma-<? echo $edu['id']; ?>">
    <? 
    foreach($diplomas->result_array() as $diploma) 
        {
            $selected = ($edu['diploma']==$diploma['name']) ? " selected='selected' " : "" ;
            echo "<option $selected value=".$diploma['id'].">".$diploma['name']."</option>";
        } 
    ?>
</select>