RE: [PHP-WIN] check boxes... set the VALUE or just echo CHECKED????

For HTML form elements that can be checked or selected or whatever, I like to do something like this: if ($conditionistru) { $checked = " CHECKED" } else { $checked = ""; } echo "<input type=\"radio\" name=\"search\" value=\"something\"$checked>"; If I was doing this for a combo/option box, I'd have a list of the options in an array, use a "foreach" to create the <option> entries and check the value from the array against the currently used value and assign $checked = " CHECKED" if they match. This way, the previously selected option is always auto-selected in your web form. Part of the reason I put the space inside the quotes with the CHECKED is so the HTML that's output is nice and clean. Nothing like seeing a blank space and wondering what got omitted. I don't know if that's the proper way.. But I don't see anything wrong with it stylistically and it works for me.. And seems to qualify for 'easy' in my book. -TG > -----Original Message----- > From: Leo G. Divinagracia III [mailto:ldivinag@csuhayward.edu] > Sent: Monday, July 05, 2004 4:21 AM > To: [PHP-WIN] > Subject: [PHP-WIN] check boxes... set the VALUE or just echo > CHECKED???? > > > i'm thinking of just adding the CHECKED word to the ECHO'ed HTML > statement instead of dealing with the VALUE. > > what's the "proper" vs the "easy" way? > > thanks... i googled a few pages and it really didnt give a > good result. > > -- > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >