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I am new to PHP and I have problem. I have a table with check boxes. I need to add if statement inside the check box. 

  echo "<div class='table1'>
<table>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td>Module code</td>
<td>Module Title</td>
<td>Option</td>
</tr>";
echo "<form action='confirmsubmission.php' method='post'>";
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td>" . "<input type='checkbox' name='check[]'  
value='".$row['module_id']."' />" . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $row['module_id'] .  "</td>"; 
echo "<td>" . $row['module_title'] . "<a href=# content='".$row['description']."'
class='tooltip'><span title='Module Description'><img src='images/i.png'/></span>
</a>". "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $row['module_choice'] . "</td>";
echo "</tr>";
}
echo "</table></div>";

Below is a If statement I need to add after value='".$row['module_id']."'

 if($row['module_choice']=='Mandatory'){ echo "checked=\"true\""; }
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checked='checked' i don't think html uses escape characters, so \" inside your string probably won't work –  Jeff Hawthorne Feb 20 '13 at 14:15
    
@JeffHawthorne checked="checked" is correct, but the escaping is there for PHP, not HTML. –  Colin Morelli Feb 20 '13 at 14:15
    
@Colin Morelli it's inside an echo string though, will php even see it? –  Jeff Hawthorne Feb 20 '13 at 14:18
    
@JeffHawthorne If it were echo "checked="true"";, PHP would complain about a parse error because of the quotes. Using echo "checked=\"true\"" tells PHP that the quotes should be echoed as well, and shouldn't be interpreted as the end of the string. –  Colin Morelli Feb 20 '13 at 14:20
    
gotcha, i usually just mix the quote types for simplicity because php doesn't make a huge distinction between single and double quotes –  Jeff Hawthorne Feb 20 '13 at 14:25
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2 Answers

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A bit of a mouthful, but try:

...    
echo "<td>" . "<input type='checkbox' name='check[]' value='".$row['module_id']."'".($row['module_choice']=='Mandatory' ? 'checked="true"' : "")." />" . "</td>";
...
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Read thanks so much...that worked. I've spend almost two days to fix it.....Thank you!!!!!! –  dimitiy Feb 20 '13 at 17:26
    
@dimitiy - In that case a click on the tick would do nicely, please! –  Raad Feb 20 '13 at 17:27
    
Done. Thanks again ) –  dimitiy Feb 20 '13 at 17:31
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Even though I'll advise you to use a templating system (Smarty, etc.), you can do the following code:

echo "<div class='table1'>
<form action='confirmsubmission.php' method='post'>
<table>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td>Module code</td>
<td>Module Title</td>
<td>Option</td>
</tr>";
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td>" . "<input type='checkbox' name='check[]'  
value='".$row['module_id']."'";
if($row['module_choice']=='Mandatory'){ 
    echo " checked='checked' "; 
}
echo "/>" . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $row['module_id'] .  "</td>"; 
echo "<td>" . $row['module_title'] . "<a href=# content='".$row['description']."'
class='tooltip'><span title='Module Description'><img src='images/i.png'/></span>
</a>". "</td>";

echo "<td>" . $row['module_choice'] . "</td>";
echo "</tr>";
}
echo "</table></form></div>";
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