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Help Needed with Dropdown Selection
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[eluser]TerryT[/eluser]
The dropdown only shows the projects that each user is involved in. $data['proj_menu'] feeds the dropdown and works correct. Only an individual user's projects are shown.

Here's the controller part. It is part of the add_item method:

Code:
$this->userid = $this->session->userdata('user_id');
            
//Get only this user's projects:
$data['proj_menu'] = $this->Items_model->get_projects($this->userid, 1);
            
            
//Validation rules. Only required to enter 1 item. Can enter up to 3 items.
$this->form_validation->set_rules('item1', 'Item1', 'trim|required|min_length[2]|xss_clean');
$this->form_validation->set_rules('item2', 'Item2', 'trim|min_length[2]|xss_clean');
$this->form_validation->set_rules('item3', 'Item3', 'trim|min_length[2]|xss_clean');
$this->form_validation->set_rules('date_worked1', 'Date1', 'trim|required|min_length[7]|xss_clean');
$this->form_validation->set_rules('date_worked2', 'Date2', 'trim|min_length[7]|xss_clean');
$this->form_validation->set_rules('date_worked3', 'Date3', 'trim|min_length[7]|xss_clean');
$this->form_validation->set_rules('proj_select', 'Project', 'trim|required|xss_clean');
            
if ($this->form_validation->run() == FALSE)
{
  $this->load->view('additem_view', $data);
} else {
  $selection = $this->input->post('proj_select');            
                
  if($selection != 0)  //Make sure a project is selected.
{

Here's the view part. :

Code:
<div class='dropdown'>
  <label>Projects</label>
  &lt;?php echo form_dropdown('proj_select', $proj_menu); ?&gt;
</div>


&lt;form method="post" action="&lt;?php echo site_url('Items/add_item')?&gt;" &gt;
    <label>Item 1</label><br/>
    &lt;TEXTAREA Name="item1" rows="3" cols="60" value="&lt;?php echo set_value('item1'); ?&gt;"&gt;&lt;/TEXTAREA><br />
    <label>Date Worked On(mm/dd/yyyy)</label><br/>
    &lt;input type="text" name="date_worked1" value="&lt;?php echo set_value('date_worked1'); ?&gt;" /&gt;&lt;br/>

Terry


Messages In This Thread
Help Needed with Dropdown Selection - by El Forum - 10-22-2010, 06:10 AM
Help Needed with Dropdown Selection - by El Forum - 10-22-2010, 06:21 AM
Help Needed with Dropdown Selection - by El Forum - 10-22-2010, 06:42 AM
Help Needed with Dropdown Selection - by El Forum - 10-22-2010, 06:47 AM
Help Needed with Dropdown Selection - by El Forum - 10-22-2010, 07:12 AM
Help Needed with Dropdown Selection - by El Forum - 10-22-2010, 07:26 AM
Help Needed with Dropdown Selection - by El Forum - 10-22-2010, 07:37 AM
Help Needed with Dropdown Selection - by El Forum - 10-22-2010, 07:41 AM



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