array to select (Drop Down)

Question

I have following Code in "Custom Code" Event defined as "Controller":

<?php
date_default_timezone_set("Europe/Zurich");
$startJahr = date('Y') ;
$startJahr = $startJahr - 4;
$endJahr = $startJahr - 96;

$form->data['jahre'] = array();

for ($i = $startJahr; $i >= $endJahr ; $i--) {
   $form->data['jahre'][$i] = $i;
}
?>

How can I applay this array to a "Drop Down" element?

Any advise?

Thanks for any help

GreyHead · Accepted Answer

Hi le5,

If you change the format of your data a little then you can use the Dynamic Data tab on a drop-down element. This requires the data to be in this format:

array(
  [0] => array( 'value' => 'some_value', 'text' => 'some_text' ),
  [1] => array( 'value' => 'some_other_value', 'text' => 'some_other_text' ),
  . . .
);

If you alter your code to be like this:

<?php
date_default_timezone_set("Europe/Zurich");
$jahr = date('Y') ;

$form->data['jahre'] = array();
for ($i = $jahr - 4; $i >= $jahr - 96; $i--) {
   $form->data['jahre'][] = array( 'value' => $i, 'text' => $i);
}
?>

Then use 'jahre', 'value' and 'text' in the Dynamic Data settings.

Note: you don't have to use 'text' and 'value' as the labels and they don't have to be the same.

Bob

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