[HELP]Making dropdown Selection Sticky with arry in a loop

[jim4nz]

Hi there i'm trying to make my drop down menu to be sticky, but it doesnt work...can some one please help me out ?? trying to figure it out for ages already. i'm building the form through a class

######Setting up the month Array ######
$monthArray = array("January",
                    "February",
                    "March",
                    "April",
                    "May",
                    "June",
                    "July",
                    "August",
                    "September",
                    "October",
                    "November",
                    "December"); 

##### Build The Form by calling the class #####
$form = new makerClass();
$form->openForm('step3Form', '');

//This Drop down Here is for user to select the number of INPUTFIELD that want to insert
$form->dropDown('', 'Insert Number of Job Input Field', 'insert', 'this.form.submit()',$insertArray, 'onchange');
$number_of_fields = $_POST['insert'];
for ($i = 0; $i <= $number_of_fields; $i++)
{
$form->dropDown('Select Month', 'From','company['.$i.'][monthStart]', "checkedDefault(this.value, 'company[$i][monthStart]', '')", $monthArray);
}

$form->makeButton('step2','Next Step');
$form->closeForm();

##### Presentation #####
##### echoing out the Form #####
echo $form->wholeForm;

 

The Following Are The Class that makes the Form

 

//Function Opening a form tag
function openForm($formName, $enc_type, $formAction="SCRIPT_NAME"){
    $this->wholeForm = '<form enctype="' . $enc_type . '" name= "'.$formName.'" action="'.$_SERVER[''.$formAction.''].'" method="post">'."\n";
    
}

//Function Building Drop Down Menu
function dropDown($defaultMessage, $label, $fieldname, $jsvalid, $locationArray, $jsEvent='onblur'){
    $selected ="";
    $selected .= '<label for = "'.$fieldname.'">'.$label.'</label>'."\n";
    $selected .= '<select name="'.$fieldname.'" id="'.$fieldname.'" '.$jsEvent.'="'.$jsvalid.'">'."\n";

    $selected .= '<option value="default">'.$defaultMessage.'</option>'."\n";
    foreach($locationArray as $key=>$value){
            $selected .= '<option value="'.$key.'">'.$value.'</option>'."\n";
            var_dump($_POST[$fieldname]);
        }
    $selected .= '</select>'."\n";
    $selected .= '<span id="'.$fieldname.'_msg" class="col3">';
    $selected .= $this->message[$fieldname];
    $selected .= '</span>'."\n";
    $this->wholeForm .= $selected;
}

//Function Closing Form Tag
function closeForm(){
    $this->wholeForm .= '</form>';
}

//Function Makes Button
function makeButton($fieldname, $fieldvalue, $type="submit"){
        
        $this->wholeForm .= '<input type = "'.$type.'" name="'.$fieldname.'" value="'.$fieldvalue.'" class="submitButton" />';
        
    }

 

 

 

[jim4nz]

Additional info

##### For $insertArray, The Input Field ##### 
$insertArray = array();
for($i = 1; $i <= 10; $i++) {
    
    $insertArray[] = $i;
}

 

by the way i ve Found a soultion to make it sticky, How Ever it doesnt workign for the Drop Down of the $monthArray

 

##### In the Form Making Class ##### 
function dropDown($defaultMessage, $label, $fieldname, $jsvalid, $locationArray, $jsEvent='onblur'){
    $selected ="";
    $selected .= '<label for = "'.$fieldname.'">'.$label.'</label>'."\n";
    $selected .= '<select name="'.$fieldname.'" id="'.$fieldname.'" '.$jsEvent.'="'.$jsvalid.'">'."\n";

    $selected .= '<option value="default">'.$defaultMessage.'</option>'."\n";
    foreach($locationArray as $key=>$value){
            $selected .= '<option value="'.$key.'"'.(($_POST[$fieldname]==$key)?' selected="selected"':'').'>'.$value.'</option>'."\n";
            var_dump($_POST[$fieldname]);
        }
    $selected .= '</select>'."\n";
    $selected .= '<span id="'.$fieldname.'_msg" class="col3">';
    $selected .= $this->message[$fieldname];
    $selected .= '</span>'."\n";
    $this->wholeForm .= $selected;
}

[Richard]

Here is a function from CodeIgniter's helpers.

 

function form_dropdown($name = '', $options = array(), $selected = array(), $extra = '')
{
	if ( ! is_array($selected))
	{
		$selected = array($selected);
	}

	// If no selected state was submitted we will attempt to set it automatically
	if (count($selected) === 0)
	{
		// If the form name appears in the $_POST array we have a winner!
		if (isset($_POST[$name]))
		{
			$selected = array($_POST[$name]);
		}
	}

	if ($extra != '') $extra = ' '.$extra;

	$multiple = (count($selected) > 1 && strpos($extra, 'multiple') === FALSE) ? ' multiple="multiple"' : '';

	$form = '<select name="'.$name.'"'.$extra.$multiple.">\n";

	foreach ($options as $key => $val)
	{
		$key = (string) $key;
		$val = (string) $val;

		$sel = (in_array($key, $selected))?' selected="selected"':'';

		$form .= '<option value="'.$key.'"'.$sel.'>'.$val."</option>\n";
	}

	$form .= '</select>';

	return $form;
}

 

To call it you'd do something like the following;

 

 

// example of submit
if (isset($_POST['submit']))
{
$default = $_POST['month'];
}

$options = array(
		'january' => 'January',
		'february' => 'February',
		'march' => 'March',
		'april' => 'April',
		'may' => 'May',
		'june' => 'June',
		'july' => 'July',
		'august' => 'August',
		'september' => 'September',
		'october' => 'October',
		'november' => 'November',
		'december' => 'December'
	);

form_dropdown('month', $options, $default);

 

This is going to produce (assuming form is submitted with the value as "march" and comes back);

 

<select name="month">
<option value="january">January</option>
<option value="february">February</option>
<option value="march" selected="selected">March</option>
// etc
</select>

[jim4nz]

thanks richard, but not what i am looking for.. i am looking for the drop down to be sticky when it is inside the loop......