Multiple-Selection Menu... why not?

[BWJ]

Why is it not possible to use a "Multiple-Selection Menu" like in the forum? You can "only" use "checkbox" for multiple entries. I really miss this feature... Your competitors can easyly copy+paste your hard work. This is not as easy with the "Multiple-selection menu" as you here can determine the size of the box.

[BWJ]

+ check boxes may take a lot of room (when seaching... with the comming feature... )

[Brian]

Multiple select custom fields will be added in the next feature release version.

[BWJ]

Thank you very much...

[jasharen]

Is there a timeframe on this feature being implemented? I need the ability to have a multi select, and was about to begin modifying it, however if I can have the ability built in, that would be far more preferable.

[Brian]

The next release should be a fairly big one, so it's probably still a couple of months down the line.

[jasharen]

Ok fair enough.

In the meantime Brian, do you mind offering a little advice?

I've modified the functions_vba_links_savelink.php file and I can now save and display a multiple select. However when I load it to edit, it only highlights one of the entries.

I added the following code after case 'select' statement in the construct_custom_fieldbits function.

PHP Code:

                case 'multiselect':

                    if (!is_array($link[$fieldname]) AND !$editing)
                    {
                        $link[$fieldname] = array();
                    }
                    else if ($editing)
                    {
                        $link[$fieldname] = explode(', ', $link[$fieldname]);
                    }

                    $optarray = array();
                    foreach ($link[$fieldname] AS $okey => $ovalue)
                    {
                        $optarray[] = htmlspecialchars($ovalue);
                    }
                    
                    $inputbox = '<select multiple size="10" name="' . $inputname . '[]">';                    
                    $inputbox .= '<option value="">' . $vbphrase['please_select_one'] . '</option>';
                    foreach ($field['options'] AS $key => $option)
                    {
                        $option = trim($option);
                        $inputbox .= '<option ' . iif(in_array($option, $optarray), 'selected="selected"') . ' value="' . $option . '">' . $option . '</option>';
                    }
                        $inputbox .= '</select>';
                break; 


Also on the edit page, when I try to save, it does not recognize that this is an edit and tries to save the record as a new record, forcing the code that stops duplicates to kick in.
This issue is resolved, it was me being kinda stupid hehe.

I do still have problems with the editing however.

Also for testing purposes I created a select through the admin panel, and then went into the database and altered the type to multiselect.

[Brian]

Sorry, but I'm not really seeing any obvious problems in your coding there.

[jasharen]

Ok I know where its not matching now, just not why.

Anytime I have & in the value of the select box, it will not match.

Unfortunately I'm new to PHP and am not sure the command to convert & back to &.

Any suggestions?

[Brian]

So you're using a '&' sign in one of your choices for the select menu, right? If so, edit the custom field again and try changing that to '&'.

[jasharen]

I tried what you are suggesting Brian and had no luck.

I noticed when you save a record of actual data to vbadv_links_cfields_entries it has the special characters added (ie &amp however when you save the source record into vbadv_links_cfields that the base & is stored.

For now I've just reworded the selects to not include &, not the most elegant I have to admit but it gets me past it for now and I can come back later when everything else is working and bang my head against it more then (beside by then maybe I'll have a better grasp of PHP)