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1. Greg Rickaby
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Refining my options panel and I want to offer the user the option to select certain categories from a drop down. This works - and even saves. However after the save the drop down list doesn't "remember" the selection and if you save again changes are lost.

   <select class="aselect" id="<?php echo $value['id']; ?>"  name="<?php echo $value['id']; ?>">
   	<option value="0"><?php _e('Select a Category', 'thetimes'); ?></option>
   		<?php	global $options;
   					foreach ($options as $value) {
   						if (get_settings( $value['id'] ) === FALSE) { $$value['id'] = $value['std']; } else { $$value['id'] = get_settings( $value['id'] );
   						}
   					}
   
   					$categories = &get_categories('type=post&orderby=name&hide_empty=1');
   
   					if ($categories) {
   						$find_select = $tt_catbox_1;
   
   						foreach ($categories as $category) {
   							$selected = (in_array($category->cat_ID, $find_select)) ? ' selected="selected"' : '';
   							echo '<option value="' . $category->cat_ID . '"' . $selected . '>' . $category->cat_name . '</option>' . "\n";
   						}
   					}
   		?>
   </select>

   $tt_catbox_1 contains the category ID

   I've Googled and found the above code, however I can't get the "SELECTED" to work quite right. I think I need to pull from the database the settings. How do I do that?

2. Greg Rickaby
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Solved it...

   <select class="aselect" id="<?php echo $value['id']; ?>"  name="<?php echo $value['id']; ?>">
   			<?php
   				global $options;
   					foreach ($options as $value) {
   						if (get_settings( $value['id'] ) === FALSE) { $$value['id'] = $value['std']; } else { $$value['id'] = get_settings( $value['id'] );
   						}
   					}
   				$cats = get_categories('hide_empty=0'); foreach($cats as $cat) { ?>
   				<option value="<?php echo $cat->cat_ID; ?>"<?php selected($tt_catbox_1, $cat->cat_ID); ?>><?php echo $cat->cat_name; ?></option>
   				<?php } ?>
   </select>

3. teenspirit
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   You have done a great job. Have you solved it yourself? I'm usually using php form tutorials in such cases.

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