Thread: MOD to 3.0.2 and 3.03 to Hold Selected DROPDOWN LIST VALUES

MOD to 3.0.2 and 3.03 to Hold Selected DROPDOWN LIST VALUES

In either ClassiPress 3.0.2 or in 3.0.3 you will find this function in theme-functions.php...maybe it is more technically a class, but anyway, I really don't know much about PHP technically.

line 1040

// builds the edit ad form on the tpl-edit-item.php page template
function cp_edit_ad_formbuilder($results, $getad) {


when you find this keep going and look for the Case named "Dropdown"

case 'drop-down':

in the new 3.0.3 you will find the following on line 1084


<option style="min-width:177px" <?php if ($post_meta_val == $option) { echo 'selected="selected"';} ?> value="<?php echo $option; ?>"><?php echo $option; ?></option>


I see what it wants to do by matching the $post_meta_val to one of the options but it is apparently needing some PHP help to make it happen.

If you replace that code in theme-functions.php in either 3.0.2 or 3.0.3 with this it will work. At least it is working for me.

When I come back to an ad in the user edit mode the dropdowns are sitting in my previously selected value with all the other values available for re-selection.

If I selected "Afghanistan" for Country when I created the ad and "Hawaii" as the State the dropdowns are sitting with just those values showing.

If I click on the dropdowns I can re-select other Countries and states and SAVE(modify) the ad. The next page view shows my new selections sitting already selected in the dropdown.

Substitute this code with a select and paste over the previous code which makes the Dropdowns-- The following code completes the task of matching the $post_meta_value with the relevant $option and saves just that one option field as "Selected".

Working Dropdown Lists Code:

<option style="min-width:177px" <?php if (in_array($post_meta_val, array($option), true)) echo 'selected="selected"'; ?> value="<?php echo $option; ?>"><?php echo $option; ?></option>