How Do I Assign Variables From Dropdown Selection - Form Hack

[ctrl-alt-del]

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:

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

I need to change it to something like:

<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.

//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]

woowww.. and what hack is this originally from?

[ctrl-alt-del]

Uhh...read the first sentence.

[Chicago_VLNU_4s]

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

[mr clean]

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]

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:

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

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

$formreply = "1";
//$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:

'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]

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:

$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,

<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]

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:

//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 =)