Re: [SMARTY-DEV] html_options oversight

On Sunday 25 January 2004 10:55 am, messju mohr wrote: > how do you manage to do that? when i pass an empty array to > html_options i get no output at all, not even the <select>-tag. > No you misunderstood me. <?php $foo = array(); $smarty->assign('bar', $foo); $smarty->display('foo_bar.tpl'); ?> --foo_bar.tpl-- <select name="foo"> {html_options options=$bar} </select> --foo_bar.tpl-- With the php array $foo being empty, the resulting html is -> <select name="foo"> </select> This is when it becomes illegal (X)HTML. For it to become "legal", it would have to be <select name="foo"> <option></option> </select> Now I was thinking after I sent the original email, that I could probably force $bar to contain data that would create something like the "legal" example. $foo = array(null => ''); I haven't tried that as yet to see what html_options would do in this case. Im hoping that it doesn't produce an empty value for the <option> tag <option value=""></option> as Im not sure if <option value=""></option> is same and equal to <option></option> during the form POST. Im open to ideas if any. Thanks