Question

I am trying to display an dropdown list with smarty html_options. It shows the dropdown nicely but output values as 0,1,2,3,4,5.

But I want values to be 100,150,200,250,300,350.

======PHP =========

$choice_set=array("A","B","C","D","E","F");
$choice_values=array(100,150,200,250,300,350);
$choice=250;

=====SMARTY=========

<select name="location">
{html_options values=$choice_values options=$choice_set selected=$choice}
</select>

Please help me to sort this out.

Answer 1

From their docs, it looks like you forgot to stick on the size bit for the select. Also, it says the options needs to be output (which seems like a really poor name to me). Like this:

<select name="location" size="{$choice_values|@count}">
    {html_options values=$choice_values output=$choice_set selected=$choice}
</select>

Update: Based on Gerald’s excellent point in the comments.

You could use the options template value if you instead defined an associative array instead of separate arrays. So this would also work:

======PHP =========

$choices = array(100 => "A, 150 => "B", 200 => "C", 250 => "D", 300 => "E", 350 => "F");
$choice=250;

=====SMARTY=========

<select name="location">
    {html_options options=$choices selected=$choice}
</select>

Also, I frequently forgot to $smarty->assign my variables, especially when I was prototyping or changing something. You’re probably smarter than me, in that regard, but it’s worth double checking.

Sorry for my oversight, it’s been a while since I used smarty.