Question

i know this is really obvious but i just don’t know what I’m missing.

$option[] = "<option value='user' selected=' " . ($row[5]=='admin') ? echo 'selected' : null. "'>user </option>";`

thanks

Answer 1

Try this:

$option[] = '<option value="user" . ($row[5]=='admin' ? 'selected' : '') . '>user </option>';`

Three differences from your code:

1. I reversed your use of quotes…easier to wrap a PHP string that contains HTML in single quotes (since HTML uses double quotes).
2. I modified the parenthesis around your ternary operator…it was only wrapped around the condition, and not the true/false return values.
3. In your “true” return value in the ternary operation, you were calling echo, which isn’t necessary in a concatenation operation.