drop down list urgent problem please help?

[helloise]

i have manually created this dropdown list and it shows the list perfectly for the selected service.\,
only problem now is when i select "zed-catcher" from the list,thus i am selected a different catcher for that service, i want to display something.. as i have my code now it is not working...please help??? been struggeling with it for too long now 🙂

 <input type="hidden" name="$value" id="$value"/>
           <select name="services">
           <?php
              $catcher_names = LpmCatcherPeer::getByAllNames();
              foreach($catcher_names as $row)
              {
                 ?>
                  <option value="<?php echo $row->getName()."/".$row->getId();?>"<?php 
                      if($row->getName() == $catcher_name) echo 'selected="selected"';?>><?php echo $row->getName();?></option>
                <?php
              }

           if ($row->getName() == "zed-catcher")
              {
                  echo $form['service_code']->renderLabel(); 
                  echo $form['service_code']->renderError(); 
                  echo $form['service_code'];
              }

      ?>
        </select>           

please help???
thanks

[big_nerd]

You have the error catcher outside for the for statement, thus it won't execute.

Your IF statement:

               if ($row->getName() == "zed-catcher")
                  {
                      echo $form['service_code']->renderLabel();
                      echo $form['service_code']->renderError();
                      echo $form['service_code'];
                  } 

Needs to be within the "if"..

Otherwise you can do:

              $zedcatcher = false;
              foreach($catcher_names as $row)
              {
              if ($row->getName() == "zed-catcher") 
              {
                            $zedcatcher = true;
              }
                 ?>
                  <option value="<?php echo $row->getName()."/".$row->getId();?>"<?php
                      if($row->getName() == $catcher_name) echo 'selected="selected"';?>><?php echo $row->getName();?></option>
                <?php
              }
               if ($zedcatcher === true)
                  {
                      echo $form['service_code']->renderLabel();
                      echo $form['service_code']->renderError();
                      echo $form['service_code'];
                  } 

Using 3 ='s is so that you capture actual true, instead of just containing a value.

This will allow you to display the drop down list, but still capture that 'zed-catcher'.

I just quickly tossed this into the input box, so may need to be tweaked.

[helloise]

thank you...yes i can see it must be tweaked a bit cos as is it is, is not right...it shows the extra "textbox" regardless of the catcher..on first loading the page it shows and it shouldnt 🙂

i'll have alook at it thanks 🙂

[helloise]

helloise;10973220 wrote:

thank you...yes i can see it must be tweaked a bit cos as is it is, is not right...it shows the extra "textbox" regardless of the catcher..on first loading the page it shows and it shouldnt 🙂

i'll have alook at it thanks 🙂

i had a look at it and from what i understand is that if it finds it in the list it will do the display part...i only want to do the display part if it catcher that was SELECTED = "zed-catcher"...

yikes...i'll play around with it some more 🙂