if block inside echo statement?
<p>I suspect it's not allowable because I am getting "Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_IF in..." error. But I couldn't find a way to accomplish my goal. Here's my code: </p>

<pre><code>&lt;?php 

  $countries = $myaddress-&gt;get_countries();

  foreach($countries as $value){
    echo '&lt;option value="'.$value.'"'.if($value=='United States') echo 'selected="selected"';.'&gt;'.$value.'&lt;/option&gt;';
  }
  ?&gt;
</code></pre>

<p>What it does is it displays a list of countries in a select element and sets United States as the default. I doesn't work sadly...</p>
