dropDownList - 'empty' and 'prompt'

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

What are the difference between the ‘empty’ and ‘prompt’ options? To me, they seem to do/render the same thing.

http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/api/1.1/CHtml#dropDownList-detail

2

I was just wondering the exact same thing. Does anyone know what the difference is?

3

Don’t know what stuation empty is need ? I tried the following array for htmlOption of dropdown List :




array('class' =>'form-control',

      'prompt' =>'prompt',

      'empty'=>'empty1')

They are printed out in the same html option tag.

After that i tried to an array for empty




array('class' =>'form-control',

      'prompt' =>'prompt',

      'empty'=>array('empty1','empty2','empty3'))

The empty options are printed out as normal and have value of array keys