Get Selected Value Of Disable Drop Down

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
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Hi,

I need help on how to get selected value of disabled drop down on controller after submit the form. Sample code below with HTML:

<form id=“ProspectiveActivities_form” method=“POST” action="<?php echo Yii::app()->baseUrl . ‘/reports/prospectiveactivities’;?>">

    &lt;input type=&quot;hidden&quot; name=&quot;section&quot; value=&quot;standard&quot; /&gt;

<?php

echo CHtml::dropDownList(‘ProspectiveActivities[period]’, implode(’:’,array_values($this->getCurrentQuarter(FALSE))), $options, array(‘disabled’=>‘disabled’), array( ‘options’ => array( $default_value_monthly => array(‘selected’ => ‘selected’,)), ‘class’ => ‘periods-select’ )); ?>

<td class=“report-runlink” style=“border-right:none;”><?php echo CHtml::link("<img src = ‘". $run_image ."’>", “#”, array( ‘class’ => ‘run-link’, ‘id’ => ‘ProspectiveActivities_run’ )); ?></td>

</form>

Now I will get an array like Array ( [ProspectiveActivities] => Array ( [period] => 01 Jul 2013:30 Sep 2013 ) [action] => run ) when I will submit this form without disabled property of drop down.

If I use disabled property of drop down then It will not get anything.

Here I need the disabled drop down and get the same array. Can you please help me?

2

This is because of the nature of HTML forms, disabled controls does not submit.

One solution is to create a hidden control that holds the data and which always gets submitted. if you need to enable and disable the dropdown, you can use javascript/jQuery to populate the changes to the hidden control.