box checked by default

I want a news letter subscribe box checked by default. Is there anywhere in the form code below I can change something to get the box checked by default?

Here is the form code:
<input type="checkbox" name="subscribed" class="textbox" value="1" <?php if(isset($_REQUEST["subscribed"])){echo "checked";}?> />

 

Add another variable to a form that will tell you if the form was submitted (ie. <form type="hidden" name="submitted" value="1">. In your original code change the if statement to read:
if(!isset($_REQUEST['submitted']) || isset($_REQUEST["subscribed"])) {echo "checked";}

 

Great, so the code that works and I use now is:

<input type="checkbox" form type="hidden" name="subscribed" class="textbox" value="1" <?php if(!isset($_REQUEST['submitted']) || isset($_REQUEST["subscribed"])) {echo "checked";}?> />

Green to you.

chicagoweb, you are an expert, could you please take a look at this:
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=500979

I need the keywords in the h1 tag to show up in the title tag, how can I do that?

 

if you want it be standards compliant make that checked a checked="checked".

 

Thanks tamen, could you please take the time to incorporate that in the code for me, show me how the complete line would look. I dont understand really what you mean. I dont know php at all actually.

 

<input type="checkbox" form type="hidden" name="subscribed" class="textbox" value="1" <?php if(!isset($_REQUEST['submitted']) || isset($_REQUEST["subscribed"])) {echo 'checked="checked"';}?> />

 

Exactly crazyryan