Re: RE: HTML_Select

Since I've got to much free time on my hands, and nothing to do with it, I'm willing to try building something like that - I'll take a look at it tonight, and see what I can do. Jon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stowe, Nola" <NStowe@TheTTGroup.com> To: "'Richard Heyes'" <richard@phpguru.org>; "PEAR Dev" <pear-dev@lists.php.net> Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 3:21 PM Subject: [PEAR-DEV] RE: HTML_Select > Good idea. However, I would like there to be a method: > > HTML_Select->setChooseText("Choose:"); > > with the default being what you have "Choose a country:" > > > Actually, I would like to see part of the eXtremePHP library implemented > here. You can view the library at http://www.extremephp.org > every HTML tag > is extended from HtmlTag, which has the methods addParameter(name, value) > and setParameter(name, value) ... set changes the current parameter. Having > a base class is very handy for all sorts of HTML objects. Not you would make > every html code in your page with the library, but I can see it handy for > pre-built objects such as select lists, menus, etc. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Richard Heyes [SMTP:richard@phpguru.org] > > Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2002 8:15 AM > > To: PEAR Dev > > Subject: HTML_Select > > > > Hi, > > > > Been playing around making some common select dropdown code and came up > > with > > the following > > package idea: > > > > HTML > > | > > +-Select > > | > > +-Country.php > > +-USStates.php > > +-UKCounties.php > > > > Some sample code for the country script: > > > > require_once('I18N/Country.php'); > > > > class HTML_Select_Country extends I18N_Country > > { > > function getDropDown($name, $selectedOption = null) > > { > > $options[] = '<option value="">Select a country...</option>'; > > $selectedOption = strtolower($selectedOption); > > > > foreach ($this->_codes as $code => $country) { > > $code = strtolower($code); > > $selected = $selectedOption == $code ? ' selected="selected"' > > : > > ''; > > $options[] = '<option value="' . $code . '"' > > . $selected . '>' > > . > > ucfirst(strtolower($country)) . '</option>'; > > } > > > > return sprintf('<select name="%s">%s</select>', > > $name, > > implode("\r\n", $options)); > > } > > } > > > > Thoughts ? > > > > -- > > Richard Heyes > > V-webmail - http://www.v-webmail.co.uk > > > > -- > PEAR Development Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >