Question

I have a select that looks like this, it is written in in HTML and is not rendered via any php,

    <select name="position">                                           
<option value="left">Left</option>
    <option value="right">Right</option>
    <option value="centre">Centre</option>
    </select>

The value gets sent to database and later on gets returned from the database as a variable in the form of $v['position'], using this and my original form how can I make the option that matches the varibale the default selection?

Answer 1

try this

<select name="position">                                           
    <option value="left" <?php echo $v['position']=='left'?'selected="selected"':'' ?> >Left</option>
    <option value="right" <?php echo $v['position']=='right'?'selected="selected"':'' ?>>Right</option>
    <option value="centre" <?php echo $v['position']=='centre'?'selected="selected"'?:'' >>Centre</option>
</select>