Show SELECTED choice from user data.

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  • juiceex

  • February 10, 2016 at 12:50 am

  I’ve added a selection list to my members. They can make a selection and it stores the value in their users meta data. I have used the following code to call the selection list and dynamically create the options available..

  BUT, I have kind of forced the SELECTED value in there at the top. This works, but its not the best way to do it. Is there something else I could do?

  <label for="email">Customer Type</label>
  <?php
  $field_key = "field_56aba9ca0d64a";
  $field = get_field_object($field_key, 'user_'.$current_user->ID);
  								
  if( $field ) {
  echo '<select id="acf-' . $field['key'] . '" name="acf[' . $field['key'] . ']" style="width: 100%;">';?>
  
  <!-- forcing the selected choice to show up -->
  <option value="<?php the_author_meta( 'customer_type', $current_user->ID ); ?>" selected="selected" data-i="0"><?php the_author_meta( 'customer_type', $current_user->ID ); ?></option>
  <!-- end -->
  
  <?php foreach( $field['choices'] as $k => $v )
  {											echo '<option value="' . $k . '">' . $v . '</option>';
  }
  echo '</select>';
  }
  ?>

  The reason I don’t like this solution is that it Doubles Up on one of the choices by adding it again to the top of the list:

  

  Thanks for your help!
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  • James

  • February 11, 2016 at 6:24 pm

  Hi @juiceex

  I believe you can check if the options is selected or not. Something like this:

  foreach( $field['choices'] as $k => $v ){
      $selected = get_the_author_meta( 'customer_type', $current_user->ID );
      if ($k != $selected ){
          echo '<option value="' . $k . '">' . $v . '</option>';
      }
  }

  I hope this helps.