[FX.php List] FX and Smarty dealing with arrays

[DC]

A few things:

This is a great question for the smarty list. The people there are very 
helpful.

Also, there is a great wiki and forum too!

The problem here is that you are putting $abbr into another array on 
smarty assign.

here's my code that works to create a state menu with selected state:

php -
<?php
// load Smarty library
require('/usr/local/smarty/libs/Smarty.class.php');
$smarty=new Smarty();
$smarty->template_dir = 'templates';
$smarty->compile_dir = 'templates_c';
$smarty->cache_dir = 'cache';
$smarty->config_dir = 'configs';
$states = array (
     'AL' => 'Alabama',
     'AK' => 'Alaska',
     'AZ' => 'Arizona');
$st = 'AZ';
$smarty->assign('abbr',$states);
$smarty->assign('st',$st);
$smarty->display('stateselecttest.tpl');
?>

tpl-
{*stateselecttest.tpl*}
<form>
{html_options name=st options=$abbr selected=$st}
</form>

Ahhh.... smarty is nice and readable isn't it? Forms without trouble. No 
cluttering HTML tags in the middle of PHP code. No headaches trying to 
debug HTML tables that are constructed in while loops, etc... caching 
mechanism built in so you can get over some of the FMP speed limitations.

best,
dan

Michael Layne had written:
> Hi,
> 
> I know some of you are Smarty Template fans, so here's a question (and a 
> bit of background).  First, I've tried to be thorough, so forgive the 
> length of the post:
> 
> I finally took the leap and tried to implement Smarty on a new and 
> somewhat sizable project.  It was a bit of a curve for a couple of days, 
> but I do like the further separation of presentation and logic. (I've 
> been rolling my own for some time) And yes, I've scoured the Smarty 
> documentation, but only examples are dealing with MySQL/PostgreSQL.  
> That would be fine, but this solution is all FM7SA back-end.  I'm sure 
> the root of my problem is my understanding (or lack thereof) of 
> associative arrays as dished out by FM7SA's XML.
> 
> The challenge is creating a dynamic dropdown with FM data within a .tpl 
> file.
> 
> First the normal PHP way: (I can do this all day long)
> 
>             <select name="accountCode">
>             <option selected="selected">select...</option>
>             <?
>             foreach ($result['data'] as $option) {
>                 echo "<option value=\"" . $option['account_codeID'][0] . 
> "\">" . $option['account_code'][0] . "</option>\n";
>             }   
>             ?>
>             </select>
> 
> My first successful Smarty template:
> 
> data is an associative array of states:
> $states = array (
>     'AL' => 'Alabama',
>     'AK' => 'Alaska',
>     'AZ' => 'Arizona',
> ...
> 
> .php code:
> first: 
>                  $smarty->assign('abbr',array($states));
> then
> .tpl code:
>                   {html_options name=st options=$abbr selected=$st}
> 
> so... I cannot figure out how to get the above PHP/FX result in an array 
> or format that will work with the Smarty template.  the closest I got 
> was something like:
> 
>             <option "value="101">101</option>
>             <option value="sample1"> sample1 </option>
>             <option "value="102">102</option>
>             <option value="sample2"> sample2 </option>
> 
> of course I'm looking for:
> 
>             <option value="101"> sample1 </option>
>             <option value="102"> sample2 </option>
> 
> That's it.  Thanks very much in advance to anyone who can point me in 
> the right direction.
> 
> Michael
> 
> 
> Michael Layne  :  9 degrees development  :  www.9degrees.com  :  
> 404.226.7835 
> 
> 
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