Question

I have this HTML select options :

<select>
<option>Married</option>
<option>Single</option>
<option>In a relationship</option>
<option>Forever Alone</option>
</select>

and selected option is based on MySQL result, for example if $row['status'] = Married then <option selected>Married</option> and the other options doesn’t have ‘selected’ word on the option tag.

how to make this dynamic selected option?

Answer 1

An example:

// these can also come from a database
$statuses = array( 'Married', 'Single', 'In a relationship' );

foreach ( $statuses as $status ) {
    echo '<option' . ( $row['status'] == $status ? ' selected' : '' ) . '>';
    echo $status;
    echo '</option>';
}