How to set selected value of HTML select box with PHP

Question

I have a next piece of the template:

<select name="interest">
    <option value="seo">SEO и Блоговодство</option>
    <option value="auto">Авто</option>
    <option value="business">Бизнес</option>
    <option value="design">Дизайн</option>
    ...

and store resulting value in $result['interest'].

How can I mark option element as selected with PHP?

Thanks!

Answer 1

The manual way.....

<select name="interest">
    <option value="seo"<?php if($result['interest'] == 'seo'): ?> selected="selected"<?php endif; ?>>SEO и Блоговодство</option>
    .....

The better way would be to loop through the interests

$interests = array(
    'seo' => 'SEO и Блоговодство',
    'auto' => 'Авто',
    ....
);

<select name="interest">
<?php foreach( $interests as $var => $interest ): ?>
<option value="<?php echo $var ?>"<?php if( $var == $result['interest'] ): ?> selected="selected"<?php endif; ?>><?php echo $interest ?></option>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</select>

Answer 2

<?php
$interests = array('seo' => 'SEO и Блоговодство',  'auto' => 'Aвто', 'business' => 'Бизнес', ...);
?>
<select name="interest">
<?php
foreach($interests as $k => $v) {
?>
   <option value="<?php echo $k; ?>" <?php if($k == $result['interest']) ?> selected="selected" <?php } ?>><?php echo $v;?></option>
<?php
}
?>
</select>