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Nefer
What is the best way to "render" drop-downs etc into text?
I want to display some fields in forum message body and get only numbers against text.
Thanks.
Unfortunately, this isn't going to be perfectly simple, but hopefully I can give you enough to get going. So, first some basic concepts: The profile field only stores the ids for the choices shown in order to be database friendly. Also, the choices shown have to be retrieved from the database based on the profile page they are edited on. This probably sounds a bit complex, but basically, if the drop-down you want to show in the forum message is located in the "Edit My Profile" page then we will need to access that page's enhanced custom profile settings to get a list of available choices for that drop-down. We will then need to compare the user's choice(s) against that list to display the proper text rather than the numbers (ids) you are seeing. So, after that long explanation, here is an example for getting the text for the dropdown "foo" found on the "Edit My Profile" page.
Language: PHP
// first we get the "foo" field. please note, if you know the field_id for the
// "foo" field, you can simply use the line:
// $foo_field = $PHORUM["mod_enhanced_custom_profiles"]["user_settings"][<foo field id>];
foreach ($PHORUM["mod_enhanced_custom_profiles"]["user_settings"] as $field_id => $field) {
if ($field["name"] == "foo") {
$foo_field = $field;
break;
} else {
continue;
}
}
// get the actual text for the dropdown choices
$dropdown_choices = explode(",",$foo_field["dropdown_choices"]);
$drop_i = 1;
// get the actual text for the user';s selection, note the location of the user';s selection may
// be different on the message page (ie not in $PHORUM["DATA"]["PROFILE"]), but you
// have already gotten that data if you are seeing the numbers, so just use the variable you
// found in place of $PHORUM["DATA"]["PROFILE"].
foreach ($dropdown_choices as $choice) {
if (!empty($PHORUM["DATA"]["PROFILE"]["foo"]) && $PHORUM["DATA"]["PROFILE"]["foo"] == "$drop_i") {
$content = $choice;
break;
}
$drop_i++;
}
// if the user has made a selection, print the text.
if (!empty($content)) print $content;
Here is a list of profile page keys which can be used in place of "user_settings" in $PHORUM["mod_enhanced_custom_profiles"]["user_settings"] above:
"user_settings" = "Edit My Profile"
"sig_settings" = "Edit Signature"
"email_settings" = "Edit Email Settings"
"privacy_settings" = "Edit My Privacy Options"
"forum_settings" = "Forum Settings"
"password_settings" = "Change Password"
Joe Curia (aka Azumandias)
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/13/2010 06:23PM by Joe Curia.
