For Matthew, a simple way to build options / dropdown menus

matthew-selectivatorizinate.php

<?php
/**
 *
 * Easily handle a bunch of <option>s
 *
 */


$my_options = array(
	// name/label => value
	'item 1' => 850,
	'item 2' => 950,
	'item 3' => 750,
	'item 4' => 650,
	'item 5' => 850, // Gonna run into a problem because this is the second 850
	'item 6' => 450,
);

// Need more options? Simply add a pair to the array above. :)


// Start up our <select> HTML
$html_out = '<select name="price" id="price">';

foreach ( $my_options as $option_label => $option_value ) {
	//Clean up the POST value (based on Andrew's code)
	$post_value = filter_input(INPUT_POST, 'price', FILTER_SANITIZE_NUMBER_INT);

	//Add/build the option
	$html_out .= '<option value="' . $option_value .'" ' . selected($post_value, $option_value) .'>' . $option_label .'</option>';
}

// Close up our <select> HTML
$html_out .= '</select>';

echo $html_out; // or return $html_out or...