Thread: Dynamic Drop Downs for Country, State, and City

Mohsin! I dont know what happened but it's working now???

I dont recall clearing my cache but MAYBE thats all it needed, the window is interactive while using the JQuery colorbox plugin and that was my main issue.

I also added the following code to fix the Height (avoiding the scrolling) of the colorbox popup on line 851 and that worked also
innerWidth:"360px", innerHeight:"260px"

Now is there a way to apply a special CSS styling to the "Select Location" menu item? Or can we place it elsewhere to help modify the css since it seems to be integrated automatically with the main menu css?

Thank you again for the prompt followup.

Me again, you're going to hate me now

That same site I'm dealing with, when an end user edits their ad from their Dashboard, any fields involving a Drop down or Checkbox do not get updated, you're wondering what that has to do with the plugin, because troubleshooting wise, I deactivated DML, went back and updated the ad, the fields that I changed ended up getting updated.

The only other way those fields could be updated is if I had logged in from the admin panel to update the user's ads, then it would reflect on their end, but won't be able to change them, meaning, if they uncheck or choose a different dropdown field, then Save, the changes wont get saved.

I'm going to install DML on the public test site to confirm this issue and update you.

Hi Mohsin.
I seem to be having a bit of difficulty getting this to work.
The pop-up shows a "busy" spinning image, but does not load the drop downs.
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Also, on the add new form, the 2nd (and thus the 3rd as well) drop downs are not selectable. Even after making a selection from the 1st one. This prevents the user from completing the form.
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I am using WP 3.5 & CP 3.2.1 and have disabled all other plugins to no avail.
Any assistance would be appreciated.

Hi dubya,

I think the reason for the problem is the existence of single quotes in the field values. Sorry for the inconvenience, single quotes (') within the field values are currently not supported because the plugin uses JSON strings to send data back and forth between PHP and JavaScript, and if the single quotes are unescaped, it messes with the encoded latin accented characters. At the moment it is a choice between having latin characters and single quotes, but I am going to try and resolve this issue for the next version.

Regards,
Mohsin

Sure enough! There are 2 Canadian Cities with apostrophes: Val D'Or and St. John's.
I have temporarily replaced them with asterisks (*) (to preserve the word's format) and now it is working as expected.
Thanks for making this and for the support, I look forward to the update. $$ well spent IMHO.

Hi again Mohsin.
Ok, I have just noticed something...
I have setup with 3 levels, but many of the 2nd level options do not have a 3rd level. This is desired, for example: [Ontario => Greater Toronto Area => Mississauga] has 3 levels but [Ontario => Hamilton] has only 2 levels. This works fine in the pop-up, but in this case, if the user selects a 2 level option, they cannot complete the add-new form because the 3rd level is required, yet there is no 3rd level.
I hope that makes sense.
Anyways, do you have any suggestions on how I might be able to work around this? Perhaps the 3rd level could somehow be conditionally optional?
Thanks in advance.

Is it possible to temporarily add one default on the third level, like "Hamilton Region" for now? Making the third level optional may present complex problems, (or may just work as is), we can do collaborate and do a test together over Skype sometime when I am back in office in a few days. Please let me know.

Regards,
Mohsin

Good point Dubya, just to reinforce this rational approach, and I think it would be a good thing to consider, here's another solid example:

Level 1:
Country: France

Level 2:
State: Paris

Level 3
City: ???

This is where the 3rd option becomes obsolete, it seems that Canada and USA are among the few that have all 3 levels applicable.
But its also understandable how the plugin works, I was hesitating from switching to Citify instead, but I opted to keep the listings to local Canadians for now until another option comes up with the plugin.

By the way Mohsin, I think you were looking into allowing multiple instances of the plugin for different distributions?

Enjoy your time off.

Hi Fanatic,

I think the third level should only be optional when there are no values existing for it, and not to be made entirely optional across all second level values, what do you think?

The multiple instances is still a fair bit away, I am looking to first bring a new version with fixes to a couple of issues .

Regards,
Mohsin

Sure, that makes perfect sense, aren't you supposed to be out of the office? Workaholic!! lol