display radio selected

[cougarreddy]

i have "edit user details" page, where I need to display the existing values. user can be either student or employee. I have the following code to display what is the current role of the user. I want to know if there is any shorter code to do this than this lengthy code.. lengthy because, I may extend the roles to be 5, 6 diff types. so while displaying it, i need to write 6 different if statements, which is ridiculous I think,

 

<?php 
        if($role=='Employee')//$role is collected from db in PHP code before starting the html output.
{
      echo "<input type='radio' name='group1' value='Employee' checked>Employee";
      echo "<input type='radio' name='group1' value='Student'>Student";
}
else
{
     echo "<input type='radio' name='group1' value='Employee'>Employee";
     echo "<input type='radio' name='group1' value='Student' checked>Student";
}

?>

 

thanks in adv

[Hybride]

Try a switch/case statement.

[cougarreddy]

thanks

[cougarreddy]

@Hybride, thanks for the help, that simple solution didn't cross my mind .. anyway, I have one more problem,

 

just like the radio button, there are 10 check boxes to be displayed with the present values checked, can u help me how to do that?

[cougarreddy]

any help?