Question

<select name="test1">
<option %IF{"'%URLPARAM{"test1"}%'='A'" then="selected='selected'"}%>A</option>
<option %IF{"'%URLPARAM{"test1"}%'='B'" then="selected='selected'"}%>B</option>
<option %IF{"'%URLPARAM{"test1"}%'='C'" then="selected='selected'"}%>C</option>
</select>

<select name="test2">
%SEARCH{ "^\| *test *\|" topic="PersistentSelectedValues" type="regex" multiple="on" nosearch="on" nototal="on" format="<option %IF{"'%URLPARAM{"test2"}%'='C'" then="selected='selected'"}%>$pattern(^\| *test *\| *(.*?) *\|.*)</option>" separator=" "}%
</select>

<select name="test3">
%SEARCH{ "^\| *test *\|" topic="PersistentSelectedValues" type="regex" multiple="on" nosearch="on" nototal="on" format="<option %IF{"'%URLPARAM{"test3"}%'='$pattern(^\| *test *\| *(.*?) *\|.*)'" then="selected='selected'"}%>$pattern(^\| *test *\| *(.*?) *\|.*)</option>" separator=" "}%
</select>

What am I missing ?

Environment

-- ChengappaCB - 20 Dec 2008

Answer

If you answer a question - or someone answered one of your questions - please remember to edit the page and set the status to answered. The status selector is below the edit box.

I usually simply add this in the beginning:

<option>%URLPARAM{status}%</option> <option></option>

Your approach is more intuitive because it lists options only once. Make sure to escape the IF and URLPARAM with $percnt so that it survives the SEARCH. Escape also double quotes where needed.

Untested format example:

format="<option $percntIF{\"'$percntURLPARAM{test3}$percnt'='$pattern(^\| *test *\| *(.*?) *\|.*)'\" then=\"selected='selected'\"}$percnt>$pattern(^\| *test *\| *(.*?) *\|.*)</option>"

-- PeterThoeny - 21 Dec 2008

Thanks a lot Peter. You have been helpful as ever. It looks like the % in URLPARAM need not (or should not ?) be escaped. Here is what worked.

<select name="test4">
%SEARCH{ "^\| *test *\|" topic="PersistentSelectedValues" type="regex" multiple="on" nosearch="on" nototal="on" format="<option $percntIF{\"'%URLPARAM{"test4"}%'='$pattern(^\| *test *\| *(.*?) *\|.*)'\" then=\"selected='selected'\"}$percnt>$pattern(^\| *test *\| *(.*?) *\|.*)</option>" separator=" "}%
</select>

A B C

Just a last question: Is it possible to use the 'value=' parameter in <option> so that I can assign some numerical values to the URLPARAM, based on the dropdown option selected ? In the above mentioned example, I want the URLPARAM{test4} to be assigned values 1,2 or 3 (or any other values like 10,100 or 1000) respectively if A , B or C are selected.

-- ChengappaCB - 21 Dec 2008

Standard HTML:

<option value='100'>A</option>

-- PeterThoeny - 21 Dec 2008

I was actually looking for some way to use this within SEARCH command above. May be I can figure out some way of doing it. Anyway, thanks a lot for all the help.

-- ChengappaCB - 22 Dec 2008

Well... just for the sake of completeness... I solved this by introducing the third column to the table with the values corresponding to the entries in the second column. With a bit of tweaking the $pattern variable, I am able to pick the correct value now.

-- ChengappaCB - 22 Dec 2008

Nice. May be you could summarize it for others as a reference?

-- PeterThoeny - 22 Dec 2008

This is also worth a blog article in the Blog web.

-- PeterThoeny - 22 Dec 2008

I will Peter. I owe one to Twiki

-- ChengappaCB - 26 Dec 2008