Multi-Select Roundabout!

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Last Post: September 13, 2010   (RSS)

By Perchpole - September 13, 2010

Hi, All

I'm having one of those days where the simplest of problems is causing my brain to turn to cheese!

I want to use the data from a multi-select menu on a detail page - but I simply can't work out how to do it!

In this instance, each Value is a URL and each Label is the name of a website. The idea is that the author can select from a pre-configured pool of websites and show these as a list of links beneath an article.

Should be simple but it just ain't happenin' today!

Wibble...

Perch

Re: [Jason] Multi-Select Roundabout!

By Perchpole - September 13, 2010

Hi, Jason -

Thanks for the offer of support. I'm not looking for anything grand, just a simple guide to constructing the code.

When I use $showme I have the following bits of code to work with from the multi-select list:

[offsite_items] => url1 url2 url3
[offsite_items:labels] => Array
(
[0] => Website one
[1] => Website two
[2] => Website three
)

[offsite_items:values] => Array
(
[0] => url1
[1] => url2
[2] => url3
)

I would like the to use the code to construct a simple list of links along the lines of:

<ul>
<?php foreach $record['offsite_item'] as xyz ?>
<li><a href="xyz['values']">xyz['labels']</a></li>
<?php endforeach ?>
</ul>

It's a rough example but you can see the idea.

:0)

Perch

Re: [Perchpole] Multi-Select Roundabout!

By Jason - September 13, 2010

Hi Perch,

Try something like this:

First, we're going to combine your two arrays into one:

$offsite_items = array_combine($record['offsite_items:values'],$record['offsite_items:labels']);

Next, we just need to output them:

<ul>
<?php foreach ($offsite_items as $value => $label): ?>
<li><a href="<?php echo $value;?>"><?php echo $label;?></a></li>
<?php endforeach ?>
</ul>

That should do it.

Hope this helps.
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Re: [Jason] Multi-Select Roundabout!

By Perchpole - September 13, 2010

Brilliant!

Thanks Jason. These things are so bloomin' easy when you know how!

:0)

Perch