Question

I currently am trying the following code:

 $sql = $db->query("select id,username,fullname from userss ORDER BY fullname ASC");
        while($row = $sql->fetch()) {
            $username[] = $row['username'];
        }
        $form = new Zend_Form();
        $form->setAction('/index/change')
             ->setMethod('post');

        $element = new Zend_Form_Element_Select('foo', array(
            'multiOptions' => array(
                $username,
                )));
        $form->addElement($element);
        echo $form;

The desired result is the <select> form showing the elements <option value='username'>Full Name</option> where username is username from SQL and Full Name is fullname from sql.

Right now, it shows <option value='0'>Full Name</option>

I’m not quite sure how to specify the first part of the array, so that it will essentially be username => Full Name

Any suggestions? Thanks!

Answer 1

To set the value of an option in a Zend_Form_Element_Select, the array key defines the value, and the array value defines the text in the select that the user sees.

Try this:

$element = new Zend_Form_Element_Select('foo', array(
    'multiOptions' => array(
        $username  => $fullname,
        $username2 => $fullname2,
)));

You were seeing 0 since the array didn’t have string keys, it defaulted to use the numerically indexed array keys as values.

Given your code, you would do this:

$username = array();

while($row = $sql->fetch()) {
    $username[$row['username']] = $row['fullname'];
}