How to display seleced option in yii dropdown? - php

Question

I created a drop-down to select the category for search. When I search the product for example I search Shoes for MEN, when the view page loaded the item resets to default
I want the category to remain what I selected
<form action="<?php echo Yii::app()->baseUrl; ?>/search" method="GET" class="form-inline form-section-2 row fadeInDown animated">
<div class="col-sm-5 form-group">
<input type="text" name="loc" class="form-control" id="loc" value="<?php echo $locationdet ; ?>" placeholder="Enter Your Keyword">
</div>
<div class="col-sm-4 form-group" >
<select name="cat" class="form-control selectpicker">
<option>Select Category</option>
<option value = '0'>Men</option>
<option value = '1'>Women</option>
</select>
</div>
<div class="col-sm-3 form-group">
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-default btn-new">Search Products</button>
</div>
</form>

Answer 1

Try this:
<option value = '0' <?php if(isset($_GET['cat']) && $_GET['cat'] == '0') echo "selected" ?>>Men</option>
<option value = '1' <?php if(isset($_GET['cat']) && $_GET['cat'] == '1') echo "selected" ?>>Women</option>

Answer 2

use
echo CHtml::dropDownList('cat',isset( $_REQUEST['cat'] ) ? $_REQUEST['cat'] : NULL, array('0'=>'Men', '1'=>'Women'),
array('empty'=>'Select Category', 'class' => 'form-control selectpicker'));
to achieve yii style,
cheers

Answer 3

You will have to pass the selected option via the controller back to the view.
In the controller you will need something like this:
$this->render('viewName', array('name' => 'valueOfTheList'))
Then in the view you can use
<option value = '0' <?php if($name == '0') echo "selected" ?>>Men</option>
<option value = '1' <?php if($name == '1') echo "selected" ?>>Women</option>
However. Since you are using Yii. I would advise you to look at CHTML::dropDownList(). Then you could do something like
<?php echo CHtml::dropDownList('name', $select,
array('M' => 'Male', 'F' => 'Female'));
Which is really a more Yii way to approach these kind of things.

Answer 4

Yii way to implement this functionality.
You can keep the form state by setting the user input value to Model properties. For this, you can use CFormModel to implement, same like YII's default login page. Below is a sample example.
Create a form model for your search (SearchForm.php) and place this inside models folder.
class SearchForm extends CFormModel
{
public $search_key;
public $search_cat;
public function rules()
{
return array(
array('search_key,search_cat', 'required'),
);
}
}
Assume i am using SiteController. I want to show this search form in my index page. When i submit the form it will submitted to search action
class SiteController extends Controller
{
public function actionIndex()
{
$searchModel=new SearchForm();
$searchModel->search_key;
$searchModel->search_cat;
$this->render('index',array('searchModel'=>$searchModel));
}
public function actionSearch()
{
$searchModel=new SearchForm();
if($_POST['SearchForm'])
{
$searchModel->attributes=$_POST['SearchForm'];
}
$this->render('search',array('searchModel'=>$searchModel));
}
}
$searchModel->attributes=$_POST['SearchForm']; That is i am resetting the user inputs to model.So, in your view the form will appear with user input values.
Call this Form in views
<?php
$form = $this->beginWidget('CActiveForm', array(
'id' => 'search-form',
'enableClientValidation' => true,
'action'=>array('default/search'), //Submiting my form to Search action
));
?>
<?php echo $form->textField($searchModel, 'search_key'); ?>
<?php
$htmlOptions = array('size' => '1', 'prompt' => 'Select');
$list = array('0' => 'Men', '1' => 'Women'); // You can load your Categories from the Database table/Model.
echo $form->dropDownList($searchModel, 'search_cat', $list, $htmlOptions);
?>
<?php echo CHtml::submitButton('Search'); ?>
<?php $this->endWidget(); ?>
Hope, This will help you for your better practice.