{html_options}

{html_options} is a custom function that creates the html <select><option> group with the assigned data. It takes care of which item(s) are selected by default as well.

Attributes

| Attribute Name | Required | Description | |----------------|-------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | values | Yes, unless using options attribute | An array of values for dropdown | | output | Yes, unless using options attribute | An array of output for dropdown | | selected | No | The selected option element(s) as a string or array | | options | Yes, unless using values and output | An associative array of values and output | | name | No | Name of select group | | strict | No | Will make the "extra" attributes disabled and readonly only be set, if they were supplied with either boolean TRUE or string "disabled" and "readonly" respectively (defaults to false) |

• Required attributes are `values` and `output`, unless you use the combined `options` instead.
• If the optional `name` attribute is given, the `<select></select>` tags are created, otherwise ONLY the `<option>` list is generated.
• If a given value is an array, it will treat it as an html `<optgroup>`, and display the groups. Recursion is supported with `<optgroup>`.
• All parameters that are not in the list above are printed as name/value-pairs inside the `<select>` tag. They are ignored if the optional `name` is not given.
• All output is XHTML compliant.

Examples

<?php
$smarty->assign('myOptions', [
                                1800 => 'Joe Schmoe',
                                9904 => 'Jack Smith',
                                2003 => 'Charlie Brown']
                                );
$smarty->assign('mySelect', 9904);

The following template will generate a drop-down list. Note the presence of the name attribute which creates the <select> tags.

{html_options name=foo options=$myOptions selected=$mySelect}

Output of the above example would be:

<select name="foo">
    <option value="1800">Joe Schmoe</option>
    <option value="9904" selected="selected">Jack Smith</option>
    <option value="2003">Charlie Brown</option>
</select>   

<?php
$smarty->assign('cust_ids', [56,92,13]);
$smarty->assign('cust_names', [
                              'Joe Schmoe',
                              'Jane Johnson',
                              'Charlie Brown']);
$smarty->assign('customer_id', 92);

The above arrays would be output with the following template (note the use of the php count() function as a modifier to set the select size).

<select name="customer_id" size="{$cust_names|@count}">
   {html_options values=$cust_ids output=$cust_names selected=$customer_id}
</select>

The above example would output:

<select name="customer_id" size="3">
    <option value="56">Joe Schmoe</option>
    <option value="92" selected="selected">Jane Johnson</option>
    <option value="13">Charlie Brown</option>
</select>

<?php

$sql = 'select type_id, types from contact_types order by type';
$smarty->assign('contact_types',$db->getAssoc($sql));

$sql = 'select contact_id, name, email, contact_type_id
        from contacts where contact_id='.$contact_id;
$smarty->assign('contact',$db->getRow($sql));

Where a template could be as follows. Note the use of the truncate modifier.

<select name="type_id">
    <option value='null'>-- none --</option>
    {html_options options=$contact_types|truncate:20 selected=$contact.type_id}
</select>

<?php
$arr['Sport'] = array(6 => 'Golf', 9 => 'Cricket',7 => 'Swim');
$arr['Rest']  = array(3 => 'Sauna',1 => 'Massage');
$smarty->assign('lookups', $arr);
$smarty->assign('fav', 7);

The script above and the following template

{html_options name=foo options=$lookups selected=$fav}

would output:

<select name="foo">
    <optgroup label="Sport">
        <option value="6">Golf</option>
        <option value="9">Cricket</option>
        <option value="7" selected="selected">Swim</option>
    </optgroup>
    <optgroup label="Rest">
        <option value="3">Sauna</option>
        <option value="1">Massage</option>
    </optgroup>
</select>

See also {html_checkboxes} and {html_radios}