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ctrl-alt-del

10-24-2006 08:12 PM

How Do I Assign Variables From Dropdown Selection - Form Hack

I have the Form Hack installed and have a question that I'm hoping someone can answer with relative ease since I'm not getting a response from the developer. My question happens to be basic PHP/HTML, but since I'm not a developer, I can't figure out the issue.

I'm trying to associate values (numeric) based on a selection of a dropdown. The numeric variable is associated to a thread ID wherease the dropdown selection is a recognizable name.

Here's the default code:

Code:

<select name="dropdownanswer1">

<option value="$dropdownchoice1a" <if condition="$dropdownchoice1a == $dropdownanswer1">selected="selected"</if>>$dropdownchoice1a</option>

</select>

I need to change it to something like:

Code:

<option value="$dropdownthreadID" <if condition="$dropdownchoice1a == $dropdownanswer1">selected="selected"</if>>$dropdownchoice1a</option>

Where:
$dropdownthreadID = 100
$dropdownchoice1a = Monday

These variables are called within a newthread_start plugin.

Code:

//EXISTING THREAD ID FOR FORM TO REPLY IN

$formreplythreadid = "$dropdownanswer1";

Here's the problem: I can't seem to figure out how to call the named variable (Monday) when the form is submitted. Instead, I get the numerical value. Perhaps it's just a simple IF statement I need to add that writes Monday into another variable. However, I can't seem to figure it out.

Any help would be appreciated!

Chicago_VLNU_4s

10-27-2006 03:26 AM

woowww.. and what hack is this originally from?

ctrl-alt-del

10-27-2006 12:06 PM

Uhh...read the first sentence.

Chicago_VLNU_4s

10-29-2006 06:41 PM

aww that hack is garbage. I tried it and it made a Generic Form which i couldn't even access

mr clean

10-29-2006 10:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chicago_VLNU_4s

aww that hack is garbage. I tried it and it made a Generic Form which i couldn't even access

It worked to perfection for me. I don't think I ran into one single problem other than the thread ID/dropdown issue that ctrl-alt-del is speaking of. Certainly not garbage.

fviper

02-13-2007 06:37 PM

Hey Ctrl Alt Del,

You ever have any luck with this? I got the form to work flawlessly http://www.adversaryguild.com/forums...ad.php?do=form,
but I would really like the thread that the reply goes to be based on the reponse of one of the dropdown selections.

I've tried making a hidden field:

Code:

<input type="hidden" name="threadrepid" value="$dropdownanswer1" />

and comparing the "threadrepid to the various answers we are given, and assigning a threadid from there:

Code:

$formreply = "1";

//$formreplythreadid = $posttid;

if ($threadrepid == $dropdownanswer1b)

    {

    $formreplythreadid = "41";

    }

if ($threadrepid == $dropdownanswer1c)

    {

    $formreplythreadid = "42";

    }

if ($threadrepid == $dropdownanswer1d)

    {

    $formreplythreadid = "45";

    }

But no dice. I would be very interested if you had gotten something like this to work - and how.

I even assigned the vars as suggested - so they could be read into the array properly:

Code:

'threadrepid' => TYPE_STR,

$threadrepid = $vbulletin->GPC['threadrepid'];

Any thoughts? I'm not getting very far with the original thread for this hack ;)

ctrl-alt-del

02-13-2007 07:15 PM

Since I'm not a programmer, I didn't have much success either so I just did it a redundant and manual way. Here's an example:

Code:

$cust["15"] = "Title 1";

$cust["16"] = "Title 2";

$cust["17"] = "Title 3";



$dropdowncust1 = "15";

$dropdowncust2 = "16";

$dropdowncust3 = "17";

Where ="x" is the thread number.

Then in the form,

Code:

<option value="$dropdowncust1" <if condition="$dropdowncust1 == $dropdownanswercust">selected="selected"</if>>$cust[15]</option>

<option value="$dropdowncust2" <if condition="$dropdowncust2 == $dropdownanswercust">selected="selected"</if>>$cust[16]</option>

<option value="$dropdowncust3" <if condition="$dropdowncust3 == $dropdownanswercust">selected="selected"</if>>$cust[17]</option>

It's ugly, I know. :)

fviper

02-13-2007 09:54 PM

Hey,

Thanks for the quick reply. I "think" I figured it out after much cussing lol...

I wound up NOT having to declare any new variables, and NOT having to modify the "form" style. All I did was pretty much what I had been working on previously, but called it slightly differently since the calls I was making were causing SQL to panic because of the array usage.

Here's the code if you're interested:

Code:

//ENABLE FORM TO REPLY TO EXISTING THREAD - 1 = yes, 0 = no

$formreply = "1";

if ($dropdownanswer1 == 'Mage'){

$formreplythreadid = "43";}

if ($dropdownanswer1 == 'Warlock'){

$formreplythreadid = "34";}

if ($dropdownanswer1 == 'Warrior'){

$formreplythreadid = "41";}

if ($dropdownanswer1 == 'Rogue'){

$formreplythreadid = "42";}

if ($dropdownanswer1 == 'Priest'){

$formreplythreadid = "40";}

if ($dropdownanswer1 == 'Hunter'){

$formreplythreadid = "46";}

if ($dropdownanswer1 == 'Paladin'){

$formreplythreadid = "45";}

if ($dropdownanswer1 == 'Shaman'){

$formreplythreadid = "44";}

//EXISTING THREAD ID FOR FORM TO REPLY IN

As you can see, I use this form for recruiting purposes for World of Warcraft *grin*. The single quotes and the literal term of what the variable should be were the key apparently. Thanks for all the help - I hope it finds you well =)

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