selected( mixed $selected, mixed $current = true, bool $display = true ): string

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   Codex 10 years ago

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   Example

   <!-- Testing the values with if() --> <select name="options[foo]">	<option value="1" <?php if ( $options['foo'] == 1 ) echo 'selected="selected"'; ?>>1</option>	<option value="2" <?php if ( $options['foo'] == 2 ) echo 'selected="selected"'; ?>>2</option>	<option value="3" <?php if ( $options['foo'] == 3 ) echo 'selected="selected"'; ?>>3</option> </select> <!-- Using selected() instead --> <select name="options[foo]">	<option value="1" <?php selected( $options['foo'], 1 ); ?>>1</option>	<option value="2" <?php selected( $options['foo'], 2 ); ?>>2</option>	<option value="3" <?php selected( $options['foo'], 3 ); ?>>3</option> </select>
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   tradesouthwest 7 years ago

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   Selected Using foreach loop

   /** * Demonstration uses all cpt posts in a dropdown field to select * a featured listings to callback in a function */ function wporg_wpselected_featured_listing_cb() { $post_type = 'wpselected_post'; $options = get_option( 'wpselected_lists' ); // select(ed)_id will be a custom option outside of this function. $wpselected_select_id = $options['wpselected_featured_listing']; // Avoid ending up with no string value by setting a default value if ( '' === $wpselected_select_id ) { $wpselected_select_id = 0; } /** * Sets up a list of cpt posts to do foreach with * @param $label string Optional */ $post_type_object = get_post_type_object( $post_type ); $label = $post_type_object->label; $posts = get_posts( array( 'post_type' => $post_type, 'post_status' => 'publish', 'suppress_filters' => false, 'posts_per_page' => -1 ) ); ?> <label class="olmin"><?php esc_html_e( 'Listing at top home page.', 'wpselected' ); ?></label> <select name="wpselected_lists[wpselected_featured_listing]"> <option value="0"><?php echo esc_html__( $label, 'wpselected' ); ?></option> <?php /** * `selected` magic in use */ foreach ( $posts as $post ) { echo '<option value="' . esc_attr( $post->ID ) . '"' . selected( $wpselected_select_id, $post->ID, false ) . '>' . esc_html__( $post->post_title, 'wpselected' ) . '</option>'; } echo '</select>'; } 

   Ideally you may choose to use ob_start() and ob_get_clean() to avoid any HTML glitches on front.
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   Chigozie Orunta 3 years ago

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   If you’re going to use this in a sprintf or string function, make sure you turn the echo parameter to false (so it returns a string instead of outputting directly) like so:

   // Defined options define( 'OPTIONS', array( 1 => 'A', 2 => 'B', 3 => 'C', 4 => 'D' ) ); // My option $my_option = 1; // OR fetched option value // Get HTML options $html_options = ''; foreach ( OPTIONS as $key => $value ) {	$html_options .= sprintf(	'<option value="%1$s" %3$s>%2$s</option>',	esc_attr( $key ),	esc_html( $value ), selected( $my_option, esc_attr( $key ), false )	); } // Display Select element or tag echo '<select>' . $html_options . '</select>';