Form_Dropdown() help

[eluser]Unknown[/eluser]
Hi, I've just started using codeIgniter afew days ago and am currently doing up a website based on videos and stuff therefore I'd want a drop box to be in place so that I'll be able to let users select the categories they want to view.

This is the view code

Code:

<?= $state ?>
   <form name="Choose" method="post" action="<?=base_url() ."/index.php/user/choice"?>">

<?php
    echo "<table>";
    echo "<tr>";
    echo "<td valign="top"><font face="comic sans MS" color="#FFCC00">Category</font>:</td>"
    echo "<td valign='top'>" .form_dropdown($options) ."</td>";
    echo "</tr>";
    echo "</table>";

&lt;?

    [removed]
        function chosen(){

            if (choice.form_dropdown('Shows', $choice, 'Cat1'))
            echo form_open('video/sort_category/7/all');
            else
            redirect(('video/sort_category/13/all');    
    
        }

    [removed]
    &lt;input type="submit" value="Go!"&gt;
    &lt;/form&gt;

And this is what I've placed in the controller file

Code:

function choice(){
    
$options = array(
        'Cat1' => 'Comedy',
        'Cat2' => 'Variety',
        'Cat3' => 'News',
        'Cat4' => 'Drama',
        'Cat5' => 'Info/educational',
        'Cat6' => 'Movie',
        'Cat7' => 'Sports',
        'Cat8' => 'Cartoon'
                );
$choice = array('Cat1', 'Cat2', 'Cat3', 'Cat4', 'Cat5', 'Cat6', 'Cat7');
$this->load->view("choice", $data);
}

So sorry to disturb, but I'm really confused over the Form_dropdown function >< .

[eluser]GSV Sleeper Service[/eluser]
ok, first of all read this page thoroughly, there's a perfect working example of how to use form_dropdown.
http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-gui...elper.html

you are passing $data to your view, but $data is empty. you need to change your controller slightly.

Code:

$data['options'] = array(
        'Cat1' => 'Comedy',
        'Cat2' => 'Variety',
        'Cat3' => 'News',
        'Cat4' => 'Drama',
        'Cat5' => 'Info/educational',
        'Cat6' => 'Movie',
        'Cat7' => 'Sports',
        'Cat8' => 'Cartoon'
                );
$data['choice'] = array('Cat1', 'Cat2', 'Cat3', 'Cat4', 'Cat5', 'Cat6', 'Cat7');
$this->load->view("choice", $data);

I would advise against using redirect() in your views. The font tag was deprecated long ago, and comic sans?! are you insane?

[eluser]Unknown[/eluser]
Haha, was just playing around with fonts earlier on and decided it to be comic sans for now. Anyway thanks for the help and I'll try the code later at work