SmartForm select entities

[Mark Britton]

How do you choose which item is selected by default in a select list.  Same question for choosing the checked options in a checkbox or radio buttons?

[Mattias Segnestam]

My knowledge only reaches as far as setting a default value in an XML-SmartForm.
That you can do in the <PARAMETER> element with the code:

<VAR    name = "value"    value = "0" />

where the value correspond to the desired valu in the <DIRECTIVE> element. For example:

        <DIRECTIVE  KEY="optionList">
            <VAR    name = "0"          value="Option 1" />
            <VAR    name = "1"          value="Option 2" />
            <VAR    name = "2"          value="Option 3" />
            <VAR    name = "3"          value="Option 4" />
        </DIRECTIVE>

Hope this helps in some way.

I will look and see if I can find any way of  add a directive within the module, have to get back to you on that one, (if the pro's doesn't beat me to it).

[Mattias Segnestam]

After going through some code, I found one way to this.
If yo add a select list like this for example:

$thisSelect =& $myForm->add('sex','Sex','select',true,'',array('multiple'=>true));

And then add some options.

        $thisSelect->addOption("Male","Male");
        $thisSelect->addOption("Female","Female");
        $thisSelect->addOption("Something Inbetween","NULL");

You could then set the default option with.

$thisSelect->value = "Female";

Don't know if its the right way of doing it but it worked when I did a quick test.

Both my examples are with select lists. Have to get back to you with some examples of checkboxes and radiobuttons.

[David Weinraub]

Any progress on the checkBoxes and radioButtons? That is, after adding a checkBoxEntity to a SmartForm, how do I set it to be checked!

Thanks!

[Mark Britton]

Ok, this was really simple...don't know how I missed it in the docs:
In the above example, the add line would look like:
$thisSelect =& $myForm->add('sex','Sex','select',true,'Female',array('multiple'=>true));

[Shannon Weyrick]

yes and in addition, for a Multiple select entity, you can set the items to be selected by passing the selected values as either a comma delimited list, or an array:

$thisSelect =& $myForm->add('sex','Sex','select',true,'Female.Male',array('multiple'=>true));

or

$thisSelect =& $myForm->add('sex','Sex','select',true,array('Female','Male'),array('multiple'=>true));

shannon

[Mattias Segnestam]

Well, I missed that one too. Nice to know.

[David Weinraub]

A sample for checkBoxes:

$value = 1; // or 0;
$eCB =& $myForm->add('myCheckBox', 'True?', 'checkBox', false, $value);
$eCB->addOption('', 1);