What is the recommended approach to pass the "selected" value using PHP for an HTML SELECT form?

When working with HTML SELECT forms in PHP, you can pass the "selected" value by using an if statement to check if the option value matches the selected value, and then adding the "selected" attribute to that option. This way, the selected option will be pre-selected when the form is displayed.

&lt;select name=&quot;dropdown&quot;&gt;
    &lt;option value=&quot;option1&quot; &lt;?php if($selected == &#039;option1&#039;) echo &#039;selected&#039;; ?&gt;&gt;Option 1&lt;/option&gt;
    &lt;option value=&quot;option2&quot; &lt;?php if($selected == &#039;option2&#039;) echo &#039;selected&#039;; ?&gt;&gt;Option 2&lt;/option&gt;
    &lt;option value=&quot;option3&quot; &lt;?php if($selected == &#039;option3&#039;) echo &#039;selected&#039;; ?&gt;&gt;Option 3&lt;/option&gt;
&lt;/select&gt;

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What is the recommended approach to pass the "selected" value using PHP for an HTML SELECT form?

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