How To Get Select Option Values

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

Hi,

My form have select option and check box field. i m not getting the values of those fields.

  1. <?php echo $form->dropDownList($model,‘vehicle_type’,array(’’=>‘select’,1=>‘Tempo’,2=>‘Jeep’,3=>‘Lorry’,4=>‘Bus’,5=>‘Tipper’,6=>‘Tanker’,7=>‘Tractor’,8=>‘Pick up van’));?>

when select the options it will display 1,2 like .how do change it.

2)<?php echo $form->checkBoxList($model, ‘general_condition_of_vehicle’, array(‘Ava fitting’ => ‘Ava fitted’, ‘Ava working’ => ‘Ava working’, ‘Brake Condition’ =>‘Brake Condition’));?>

For checkbox when i choose the options and hit submit button it doesnot accept it. gives a validation error.

2

When you select an option from the dropDownList, the returned value is the first part of the array assignment.

In the above, when you select ‘Tempo’ you will get a ‘1’ back. You will need to translate that ‘1’ back to ‘Tempo’ elsewhere in your code. What I usually do is create a couple of function in the model:




public function getListLabel($id) {

   $list = $this->getDataList();

   return $list[$id];

}

public function getDataList() {

   return array(

      1=>'Tempo',

      2=>'Jeep',

      3=>'Lorry',

      4=>'Bus',

      5=>'Tipper',

      6=>'Tanker',

      7=>'Tractor',

      8=>'Pick up van'

   );

}

This way you can add another vehicle type at any time.

Then you can change the _form.php file:




 1) <?php echo $form->dropDownList($model,'vehicle_type', Vehicle::model()->dataList), array('empty'=>'Select'));?>

The ‘empty’ option may not be in the right place, or exact right code. This is off the top of my head, but I have seen it in other postings/Google searches.

I have not used the CheckBoxList, so I can’t help with that.

3

Thanks for your suggestion. I have tried but it will not work… still it returns the same . Is there any specific rules i need to change in model.

4

Yes the dropDown WILL return a number Tempo=1, so 'vehicle_type’will store a ‘1’. To display ‘Tempo’ instead, as I indicated, will will need to manually retrieve the ‘label’;

In view.php




<?php echo CHtml::encode(Model::model()->getListLabel($model->vehicle_type)); ?>

for display in a GridColumn:


array(

   'name' => 'vehicle_type',

   'value' = > 'Model::model()->getListLabel($data->vehicle_type)',

),