help, need custom dropdowns and checkboxes

[cpk]

I have searched the forum, the wiki and gone to wit's end attempting to build my own drop down menu based on some of the recommendations I was able to find but apparently I am too dense to figure this out.

I am trying to create some drop down form menus and checkboxes in a survey form. These drop downs will not need to make any calls to the database or write to the db. The form is to be emailed to the admin once it is filled out. The form is on its own page.

I based my first attempts on DrByte's "band sign up" form but it has no drop down menus, check boxes or radio button examples. I could build this form with html but I would like to take advantage of zen-cart's built-in error handling.

I have been trying to decipher the zen_draw_pull_down_menu and zen_draw_checkbox_field functions but do not have enough php skill (yet!) to figure out how to use them.

Can someone help me with this or point me to a tutorial/explanation on how to implement these functions.

Thanks,

cpk

[DrByte]

Hopefully this will help get you started in the right direction:

in your header_php.php, you need something like this:

// do you want to set a default selection?  if not, use '0':
$default_pulldown_selection = '2';

//For validation, you're looking for the contents of the $_POST['my_pulldown_menu'] variable
// this is only set after "submit" is clicked.
$pulldown_selected_item = (isset($_POST['my_pulldown_menu'])) ? $_POST['my_pulldown_menu'] : $default_pulldown_selection ;


//build an array of entries to be displayed on the template:
    $pulldown_contents[] = array('id'=>'0', 'text'=>'Please Select');
    $pulldown_contents[] = array('id'=>'1', 'text'=>'Choice Number 1');
    $pulldown_contents[] = array('id'=>'2', 'text'=>'Choice Number 2');
    $pulldown_contents[] = array('id'=>'3', 'text'=>'Choice Number 3');
    $pulldown_contents[] = array('id'=>'4', 'text'=>'Choice Number 4');
    $pulldown_contents[] = array('id'=>'5', 'text'=>'Choice Number 5');


// you could add some validation here.
if ($pulldown_selected_item==0) { 
  $messageStack->add_session('header','Please select an option from the pulldown menu','error');
} 

In your template, display the contents:

echo zen_draw_pull_down_menu('my_pulldown_menu', $pulldown_contents, $pulldown_selected_item); 

[aspudden]

This was nice ..
Now I have to find out how Radio Buttons works in Zen..

Asp :-D

[MFP]

i used this method to create a dropdown menu but the pulldown_contents are not displaying. any suggestions?

[HandcraftedUK]

in your header_php.php, you need something like this:

I'm confused. Is this in:

/public_html/includes/templates/MYTEMPLATE/common

Thanks.