How to change the value in <option value="?" >Please Select</option>


Greetings!

First of all, thank you for this wonderful script.

I had spent almost 2 days looking around for a script to suit my needs and finally I stumbled upon this - easy to implement, highly customisable and more than all it uses MySQL. I am not sure there exists another script that's a good as this - absolutely flawless.

I would like someone to advise me as how to do a small tweaking:

I tried to get ...

<option value="" >Please Select</option> instead of <option value="0" >Please Select</option>

and ...

<option value="" >None</option> instead of <option value="0" >None</option>

... how do i get about doing this? Any help will be much appreciated.


Many thanks

This script is one of its kind!



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/22/2008 10:13AM by Goody.

Thank you for your kind word, specialy today i need positive energy.

After a fast look at the code i suggest to:

In function ajax_output_xml_for_none change the line (around line 842)
print '<id>0</id>';
to
print '<id>'.$this->select_prompt_key.'</id>';

then set the $select_prompt_key variable to '' (around line 195) or what ever you need to.

that should do the trick.

Best regards
Panos

Thank you for the prompt reply.

It definitely takes the value I put in but instead of displaying "None" it gives a blank box.

Is there a way to fix this?

Kind regards

hmmmm having an empty <id></id> in the ajax's xml response must do the mischief.
I will investigate this carefully in the morning and try to fix this or find a workaround.

Best Regards
Panos

Hi panos,

Sorry to bother you!

Did you have the chance to look into the issue? Basically I would like null value for both "Please Select" and "None" texts.

I am using this for a search and inputting "0" value instead of null for these choices gives me wrong results.

Many thanks

Hi, sorry for the delay but i got into something deep.

But i finaly got the answer to that problem

go to sc_classes.php around line 715, should be the line:

var sValue = record.getElementsByTagName("id")[0].firstChild.nodeValue;


and replace with:

var sValue;
if( record.getElementsByTagName("id")[0].firstChild==null )
sValue = '';
else
sValue = record.getElementsByTagName("id")[0].firstChild.nodeValue;

now it will work with empty <id> tag.

hope this will work for you also.

Best regards
Panos

Hi Panos,

Thank you for the reply.

I tried as you had suggested but I am still getting the blank box for empty <id> tag. Any further ideas?

Cheers!

Strange.
Is there a chance having empty text also?
pls try doing the same for text node also, just after the mod at line 715, replace the line

var sText = record.getElementsByTagName("item")[0].firstChild.nodeValue;

with

var sText;
if( record.getElementsByTagName("item")[0].firstChild==null )
sText = '';
else
sText = record.getElementsByTagName("item")[0].firstChild.nodeValue;

Pls test and tell me.

That's great, it displays "None" with null value ("") and that's exactly what I wanted.

Thank you for that, panos!

Please tell me, how could I have null value when it displays "Please Select" text?

Kind regards.

Nice

Look in function ajax_output_xml_for_none change the line should say
print '<id>0</id>';
or
print '<id>'.$this->select_prompt_key.'</id>';

hardcoded to
print '<id></id>';

and should do it.

Best regards
Panos

Hi panos,

Tried as suggested but with no luck; "Please Select" text still gives me "0" value.

Any other suggestion?

Kind regards.