Make a Dropdown instead of Input field ?

Hi, I've managed to get my added fields working perfectly but now i need to make them into dropdown's instead of a straight input field, I've looked at the, "State" dropdown in the login page and it seems like a million lines of code for one dropdown? Is there a better way to make a field into a dropdown ?

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J#XX
(Scott Perry)

Hi, I was told on another forum to implement the following:

Although it appears as it should how do I get the selected result to be stored in the database as it does with the zen_draw_input_field used by the majority of the login page ? Can anyone assist.

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J#xx
(Scott Perry).

The state field is a bad example to follow as it has some specific complciations.

The result of your field will be passed to whichever page handles the inputs collected by your form in the variable $_POST["myfield"]

It's not clear however from your post where your code to update the database would go, as you haven't said much about what you're doing, so it's unclear whether your data is truly being collected by the login page, or rather by the create_account module.

Hi and thanks for the reply !.

I've made some extra fields replicating the (Fax Number) field to add extra information to the datebase from the create account page "tpl_modules_create_account". I also can edit these field in the account edit section of Zencart, "tpl_account_edit_default" and it also appears and can be edited from the "admin/customers.php". the collected data also appears in the invoice and packing slip pages. All was well until a higher power insisted that they become a dropdown instead of an input field.

I thought that I could replicate the code from the Countries dropdown but without luck.

Panic has set in ! How you guys know all this is beyond me, major respect !

Any advice would be beneficial.

Cheers

J#xx
(Scott Perry)

If you already have this working for an input field, then merely inserting the HTML that you have been given for a drop down menu should work, as long as you use the same field name as you did for the input field, since when the data is received from the form, it will look identical whether it comes from an input form or a pulldown menu.

The only wrinkle will be when you are maintaining it for the edit page. Then you would need to read the current value (as you probably do for the input field already) and mark the appropriate option as selected.

Hi, Ive noticed that the Zen way of doing things involves the zen_draw_pull_down request, and mine only has the, "select name" I would like to think that the option selected in the dropdown would be recorded into the database within the,"table_customers" field in Mysql but it won't as you say the problem would be on calling the stored data into any other request from the database. Why is it that when things work someone else always want's to bugger it ! My Boss !! arggh.

I see that the Countries dropdown calls data from countries in mysql and displays it when needed. If I create a table called Sphere and one called Cyl etc. and point the modified dropdown to those tables could I use the code for the countries dropdown to record data in the tables that I need.

Basically I need to collect the info, store it in table_customers and also have it snapshotted when orders are processed.

If this is possible I would be willing to pay through the nose !

Cheers
J#xx
(Scott Perry)

All working fine, thanks for the advice !

Cheers
J#xx

(Scott Perry)