EchMultiSelect Widget

[pjravs (Pravello)]

I have a problem with this widget.

If I close it, it does not show up again. I have to refresh the page to select again. What seems to be the problem?

And also, is there an option that it shows the text that has been selected thanks!

[Taegle]

This widget seems to be very helpful. However, I’m having an issue that once I open the list , I can’t close it, not by clicking the select nor by the X button. Does anyone knows how to fix it?

I’m using Yii 1.1.14!

[epulgaron (Jokercrazy05544)]

I have tried to use this extension, but I several problems arise

1-not the dropdown closes when I choose an item

2-close button does not work me

3-when I give "insert" an element over my application throws me the error "field must be a number", the primary keys are integers and auto-increment

any idea?

One possibility is the following:

you define a new attribute/variable in the model file, at the beggining, directly after the class starts:

class Car extends CActiveRecord {

   $colors = array();

   ...

}

The name of the variable should not be equal to a column name. Here, your model/table should not have a column named ‘colors’. You then use this new attribute in the widget:

$this->widget('ext.widgets.EchMultiselect', array(

    'model' => $model,

    'dropDownAttribute' => 'colors',     

    'data' => $data,

});

In the controller file, you then have the array

$_POST['Cars']['colors']

that provides the id’s of the clicked/selected colors for further use.

To handle the field_1,…,field_N columns:

You could build an array, like

$data = array('field_1',...,'field_N');

and use it as the data source in the widget above.

Then in the controller you can loop from 1 to N and check for each, if the correspondig box was selected and set the field_X accordingly. Something like:

if( in_array(X,$_POST['Cars']['colors']) ) $model->field_X = 1;

else $model->field_X = 0;

Otherwise, you would have to provide a separate checkbox for each of the field_X columns in your form. And to combine a set of checkboxes into a dropdown of checkboxes, I think we would need a different widget.

Best regards…