Re: [SMARTY-DEV] html_options

--- Danilo Buerger <[email protected]> wrote:
> messju mohr schrieb:
> > On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 02:53:20PM +0100, Danilo Buerger wrote:
> >>> It's the responsobility of the editor who inserts the {html_options}
> >>> into the template to declare it as multiple or not.
> >>>
> >>> the fact if an option list is single or multiple is most times rather
> >>> static, but the list of actually selected values is highly dynamic.
> >>>
> >> I can understand your point about the multiple part although i dont 
> >> agree. However i dont see why you are going against dropping the 
> >> array_map('strval'....) (which is unneccessary anyway) to make the 
> >> plugin work better.
> > 
> > the strval() is necessary to distinguish between "" and 0, like here:
> > 
> > $smarty->assign('options', array('' => 'Please Choose',
> >                                  0 => 0,
> >                                  1 => 1,
> >                                  2 => 2));
> > 
> > $smarty->assign('selected', 0);
> > 
> > ...
> > 
> > {html_options name=foo options=$options selected=$selected}
> > 
> > 
> 
> Ok this is a problem still to figure out however now this works 
> incorrectly as well:
> 
> $smarty->assign('options', array('' => 'Please Choose',
>                                   0 => 0,
>                                   1 => 1,
>                                   2 => 2));
> 
> $smarty->assign('selected', false);
> 
> false should match the array key 0 but matches the empty string.

Personally, I think the point is moot. Whether or not you can generally use
true/false as array keys, AFAIK, one can never get the PHP values true or false
back from a form post. In that light, one has no business specifying them when
they really mean to specify 0 or 1, not?

boots


 
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