Using a PHP variable to determine a HTML select box choice - php

Question

I have a select box that when the page loads it sets a value selected based upon a variable. I also have 2 IF statements that checks the variable and returns the results. Here is my code I am trying to do:
<select id="satbreak1" name="satbreak1">
<?php if ($trimmed_title[0] == "Guest")
{
echo ('<option selected value="#">Select One</option>');
echo ('<option value="y">Yes</option>');
echo ('<option value="n">No</option>');
}
if ($trimmed_title[0] != "Guest")
{
echo ('<option <?php if($trimmed_satBreakfast[0] == "") echo ("selected ") ; ?> value="#">Select One</option>');
echo ('<option <?php if($trimmed_satBreakfast[0] == "y") echo ("selected ") ; ?> value="y">Yes</option>');
echo ('<option <?php if($trimmed_satBreakfast[0] == "n") echo ("selected ") ; ?> value="n">No</option>');
}
?>
</select>
What I need to do is if $trimmed_title[0] == "Guest" then echo out the first part, but if $trimmed_title[0] != "Guest") then echo out the second part and also check what the status of $trimmed_satBreakfast[0] is and set the selected value.
What is the best / correct way to handle this?
The first part works fine but having an php script in a echo seems to fail.

Answer 1

I think this might do the trick - not tested but theoretically looks ok
<select id="satbreak1" name="satbreak1">
<?php
if ( $trimmed_title[0] == "Guest" ) {
echo '
<option selected value="#">Select One</option>
<option value="y">Yes</option>
<option value="n">No</option>';
} else {
$tsb=$trimmed_satBreakfast[0];
echo '
<option selected value="#" '.( $tsb=='' ? 'selected' : '' ).'>Select One</option>
<option value="y" '.( $tsb=='y' ? 'selected' : '' ) .'>Yes</option>
<option value="n"'.( $tsb=='n' ? 'selected' : '' ).'>No</option>';
}
?>
</select>

Answer 2

Something like this:
<?php
$options = array(
'values' => array('', 'y', 'n'),
'titles' => array('Select One', 'Yes', 'No')
)
$index = $trimmed_title[0] == 'Guest' ? 0 : array_search($trimmed_satBreakfast[0], $options['values']);
//if ($index === false) $index = 0;
$optHtml = array();
foreach($options['values'] as $i => $val) {
$selected = $index == $i ? 'selected' : '';
$optHtml[] = "<option $selected value=\"$val\">{$options['titles'][$i]}</option>";
}
$optHtml = implode("\n", $optHtml);
?>
<select id="id" name="name">
<?php echo $optHtml?>
</select>
or any other style to split html from php:
//if ($index === false) $index = 0;
...
?>
<select id="id" name="name">
<?php foreach($options['values'] as $i => $val) {?>
<option <?=$index==$i?'selected':''?> value="<?=$val?>">
<?=$options['titles'][$i]?>
</option>
<?php } ?>
</select>
In this case HTML not used in the common php code, but php used in HTML (only general template features: loop through data and echo it).
Common purpose of this is possibility to extract template part to separate file.

Answer 3

It is already PHP so you have to remove the php tags
echo ('<option '.($trimmed_satBreakfast[0] == "") ? : '"selected"' : ''.' value="#">Select One</option>');
echo ('<option '.($trimmed_satBreakfast[0] == "y") ? : '"selected"' : ''.' value="y">Yes</option>');
echo ('<option '.($trimmed_satBreakfast[0] == "n") ? : '"selected"' : ''.' value="n">No</option>');