Home/ Questions/Q 7847857
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-06-02T18:01:30+00:00

In my forum when I add a topic, I have a dropdown with all

  • 0

In my forum when I add a topic, I have a dropdown with all possible categories. When I post and one of the text fields is empty there comes an error, and I want to keep the selected item in the dropdown selected.

I did it before but not with Smarty. Can somebody see what I am doing wrong?

$query_cat = "
    SELECT
        fcID
        ,fcName
    FROM
        forum_categories
    ";
    $exec_cat = mysql_query($query_cat);    
    while($categories = mysql_fetch_assoc($exec_cat))
    {
        if(isset($_POST['category']))
        {
            $selected = ' selected';
        }
        else
        {
            $selected = '';
        } 
    }
    $this->view->assign('selected', $selected);

    if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'POST')  
    {  
        $row = mysql_fetch_assoc($exec_cat);
        $subject = mysql_real_escape_string(htmlentities($_POST['subject']));
        $content = mysql_real_escape_string(htmlentities($_POST['content']));

        $query_add_topic = "
        INSERT INTO
            forum_topics
        (
            ftDate
            ,fcID
            ,fuID
            ,ftSubject
            ,ftMessage
        )
        VALUES
        (
            NOW()
            ,'".$_POST['category']."'
            ,'".$_SESSION['userid']."'
            ,'".$subject."'
            ,'".$content."'
        )
        ";
        $exec_add_topic = mysql_query($query_add_topic);
    }
    else
    {
        while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($exec_cat))
        {
            $entries[] = $row;
            $this->view->assign('entries', $entries);
        }
    }

And smarty

<table width=100%>
<tr>
    <td>Onderwerp:</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td width="50"><input type="text" name="subject"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>Categorie type</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td><select name="category">
    {foreach from=$entries item=entry}
            <option value="{$entry.fcID}"{$selected}>{$entry.fcName}</option>
    {/foreach}
        </select>   
    </td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td class="text"><textarea name="content" cols="50" rows="10"></textarea></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td colspan="2"><input type="submit" name="send" value="Verstuur"></td>
</tr>

Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    There is a Smarty tag for creating the <option> tags inside a select, {html_options}. The documentation for it is here. Besides not having to build your own loop in the template, you can also specify the selected value as a parameter, which you can pass in from PHP through your $smarty object. That will let you create a <select> with minimal effort and maximum smarty goodness, easily passing in the previously selected value for your topic.

    • 0