What are best practices for preselecting checkboxes based on previous user selections in PHP?

When preselecting checkboxes based on previous user selections in PHP, you can achieve this by checking if the checkbox value matches the value stored from the user's previous selection. If they match, you can add the "checked" attribute to the checkbox input tag to preselect it.

// Assume $previousSelections is an array containing values from user's previous selections
$checkboxValues = ['option1', 'option2', 'option3'];

foreach ($checkboxValues as $value) {
    $checked = (in_array($value, $previousSelections)) ? 'checked' : '';
    echo '<input type="checkbox" name="checkbox[]" value="' . $value . '" ' . $checked . '> ' . $value;
}