There is a form in which there are elements, in each of which there are 2 selection points: , . I choose the items I need and send it all to the database.

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But I also need to be able to edit this data. That is, open the edit form and pull data there from the database.

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There are no problems with ordinary . But with , I got a snag. The problem is that when editing I cannot offer the same 2 options, that is, one - selected by adding (by default), and the other opposite to it.

I suspect that this is done with the help of the condition, but I cannot understand how exactly.

Started like this:

<? if ($select_pay) echo "<option selected>$select_pay</option>"; ?>

How to display another option that was not selected when adding? The $ select_pay stores the selected option when adding, which I pulled out of the database.

The itself looks like this:

 <select size=1 name=pay> <option value="Включен">Включен</option> <option value="Выключен">Выключен</option> </select>
  • If you always guarantee exactly two values ​​in selects, wouldn't it be more convenient to use checkboxes instead? - Yaant
  • I wanted it from the beginning, but I was told to do it on selects, I do not know why. Master-master. - luckydutch

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Create an array of all options ("on", "off", something else). In the foreach loop, foreach through all the options, and make selected the one that is stored in the database.

 $pays = array("on", "off"); foreach ($pays as $pay){ ?> <option value="<?php echo $pay; ?>" <?php if($pay == $select_pay) echo "selected"; ?>> <?php echo $pay; ?> </option> <?php } ?> }
  • It works, thank you very much. - luckydutch