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[ngwheels]

I'm still trying to learn this smarty templating, much more of a learning curve then I was expecting...Anyway, how do you think I could get something like the following to show up properly in the page? Lets say I have an array of

$test = array(blue, yellow, red, orange);

How can I get this to show up in a select box on my page? The will be dynamic based upon a couple variables received by the page, thats why I don't just type them straight into the template...

Thanks in advance for your help, I appreciate all the help I've gotten so far.

[BCSE]

Something like this assuming you're using the get method of a form. This also assumes you've passed $test properly to smarty.

<select name=dropdown_name>
{section name=test_idx loop=$test}
<option value={$test[test_idx]} {if $smarty.get.category eq $test[test_idx]}selected{/if}>{$test[test_idx]}</option>
{/section}
</select>

Carrie

[Waylon]

Originally Posted by ngwheels

$test = array(blue, yellow, red, orange);

How can I get this to show up in a select box on my page? The will be dynamic based upon a couple variables received by the page, thats why I don't just type them straight into the template...

I found this snippet on the Zend site (http://www.zend.com/zend/tut/tutorial-cezar.php):

You can create an array in PHP an pass it to the template:

$tmp = array ( 'UID'=> '10',  &'Name' => 'John Doe', 'Address'=>'Home address'); 
$smarty->assign('info', $tmp); 

Then build the drop-down from the array. I haven't tried it, but it looks pretty straightforward.

[ngwheels]

Thanks for the advice, I'll be playing with it tonight to see if I can figure something out.

[ngwheels]

I can't believe I put this off for so long, its probably the easiest thing I've done with this site. Thanks guys.

[Mod King]

Smarty is a very simple program to do some awesome html stuff


check out http://smarty.php.net
and check out the documentation it has all the functions and some good examples.