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Preselecting Pulldowns in ExpressionEngine Standalone Edit Forms
June 02, 2010
This is for EE 2.0, and if you are using an earlier version, skip the system hack.
To create a Stand-Alone-Edit form, first follow the method graciously shared by Ty Wangsness, of eMarketSouth:
http://www.emarketsouth.com/blog/details/how-to-create-standalone-edit-forms-in-expressionengine-2.0/
Beware that you need to perform a small hack to your EE system. When I do this, I keep a text file with my site files in which I record any hacks or alterations I've made so I have a list of things to be aware of when upgrading the system.
Pre-selecting pull-downs
Imagine that you have a list of options in a custom field pulldown menu, as follows;
<select id="field_id_01" name="field_id_01">
<option value="option1">option1</option>
<option value="option2">option2</option>
<option value="option3">option3</option>
<option value="option4">option4</option>
</select>
Just use a conditional to compare your pulldown options with the information stored for that entry in the database, in conjunction with the HTML "selected" feature;
<select id="field_id_01" name="field_id_01">
<option value="option1" {if channel_fieldName == "option1"}selected="selected"{/if}>option1</option>
<option value="option2" {if channel_fieldName == "option2"}selected="selected"{/if}>option2</option>
<option value="option3" {if channel_fieldName == "option3"}selected="selected"{/if}>option3</option>
<option value="option4" {if channel_fieldName == "option4"}selected="selected"{/if}>option4</option>
</select>
Now your pulldown form fields should be preselected with the current value from the database.
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