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Additional options for SELECT element

Hi, what is the best way to define additional 'disabled' option for SELECT tag and also 'selected' attribute for the option? Say, I have select element

$element = new Select('id', MyElement::find(), array(
            'using' => array('id', 'name')
        ));

which produces

<select>
    <option value="1">One</option>
    <option value="2">Two</option>
</select>

1) how to define additional 'disabled' option?

<select>
    <option disabled>Please select...</option>
    <option value="1">One</option>
    <option value="2">Two</option>
</select>

2) How to pre-select element?

<select>
    <option value="1">One</option>
    <option selected value="2">Two</option>
</select>

Thanks!

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answer

You can do this:

$params = array(
            'useEmpty' => true,
            'emptyText' => 'Please Select...',
            'using' => array('id', 'name')
        );

$element = new Select('id', MyElement::find(), $params);

// Set the value for the field
Select::displayTo('id', '2');


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Thanks Nikolaos! Is there any notes about this options in official documentation?



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The displayTo is in the documentation but I see that we missed the useEmpty and emptyText. We need to add it there.

https://docs.phalcon.io/en/latest/api/Phalcon_Tag.html



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@niden what about this case?

<select multiple="multiple">
    <option          value="1">One</option>
    <option disabled value="2">Two</option>
    <option disabled value="3">Three</option>
    <option selected value="4">Four</option>
    <option selected value="5">Five</option>
</select>


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For multi selection it's easy

$this->tag->select([
    'id',
    MyElement::find(),
    'using'    => ['id', 'name'],
    'value'    => [4, 5],
    'multiple' => 'multiple'
]);?>

Is it possible to disable some options?



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@AgentJ That one is not implemented as far as I can see.

Do you mind opening a NFR on Github so that we can address this?

Thanks!



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Thanks!



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edited Mar '16

This solution is not valid anymore, answer from this topic actually works (at least in the beginning of 2016):

https://forum.phalcon.io/discussion/4475/how-to-selected-in-select-option-using-tag