When eching, i get error because of if

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Im creating option with if, because if need that on load item would b selected by the current view. I dont need JS. I was trying to do this, but i get error because of if, i done everything right i think here it is:

echo ('<option value="?m=ticketsmith&ticket_company=' . $row['company_id'] . '&type='.$type.'"'. if ($show_uid == $row['company_id']) { echo ' selected="selected"';}'/>' . $row['company_id'].', ' . $row["company_name"]) ;

I hope you guys will help me. And here is error messege: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected 'if' (T_IF) in

Issue is that you are trying to use a `if(){}` inside a echo (and even echo inside a echo). Which you can't. — Epodax, Jul 10 '15 at 08:18
you can make variable with all parts of your Option element, paste every part of string to that var and in the end just do echo $foobar; cause you cant do if statement in echo (you can eventually do _($foobar==true)? 'true' : 'false'_ — Buzka91, Jul 10 '15 at 08:19

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 10 '15 at 08:34

You can't use echo inside echo.

Try following:

$isSelected = '';

if ($show_uid == $row['company_id']) {
    $isSelected = ' selected="selected"';
}

echo ('<option value="?m=ticketsmith&ticket_company=' . $row['company_id'] . '&type='.$type.'"'. $isSelected '/>' . $row['company_id'].', ' . $row["company_name"]);

Hope this helps!!

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 10 '15 at 08:20

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echo ('<option value="?m=ticketsmith&ticket_company=' . $row['company_id'] . '&type='.$type.'"'.  ($show_uid == $row['company_id'] ? ' selected="selected"' : '' ) . '/>' . $row['company_id'].', ' . $row["company_name"]) ;

The change was this

if ($show_uid == $row['company_id']) { echo ' selected="selected"';}

to this

($show_uid == $row['company_id'] ? ' selected="selected"' : '' )

edited Jul 10 '15 at 08:20

jmattheis

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answered Jul 10 '15 at 08:12

CT14.IT

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i get syntax error, unexpected ')', expecting ',' or ';' in ? – TorresAlGrande Jul 10 '15 at 08:15
I've edited the above, should work now. – CT14.IT Jul 10 '15 at 08:21
Thanx forgot to mark answered. – TorresAlGrande Jul 10 '15 at 08:44

When eching, i get error because of if

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