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populate dropdown (selectbox) with countries

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    eerne Reply #1, 13 years ago
    Hi, How can I populate a select box / dropdown with a list of all countries?

    I’d like to use the modx internal list of countries starting with Afghanistan, exactly the same as under Security / Manage Users / Update User / Country

    If validation has failed it would make sense that the form remembers which country has been selected, so I’d like to use :FormItIsSelected. At this point I guess I’ll need to write a custom snippet that generates 

    <option value="Afghanistan" [[!+fi.countries:FormItIsSelected=`Afghanistan`]]>Afghanistan</option>


    Any pointers appreciated!
      • 22015
      • 3 Posts
      octoris Reply #2, 13 years ago
      Ok as eerne knows on IRC I was inspired to create a fast snippet with some code borrowed from MODX donated back to MODX wink

      First the snippet and name it CountryList for example:

      <?php
$clRowTpl = isset( $clRowTpl ) ? $clRowTpl : 'clRowTpl';
$clOuterTpl = isset( $clOuterTpl ) ? $clOuterTpl : 'clOuterTpl';

$_country_lang = array();
include $modx->getOption('core_path').'lexicon/country/en.inc.php';
if ($modx->getOption('manager_language') != 'en' && file_exists($modx->getOption('core_path').'lexicon/country/'.$modx->getOption('manager_language').'.inc.php')) {
    include_once $modx->getOption('core_path').'lexicon/country/'.$modx->getOption('manager_language').'.inc.php';
}
asort($_country_lang);

$countries = array();
$wrapper = "";
  foreach ($_country_lang as $country) {
    $modx->setPlaceholder('cl.country', $country);
    $wrapper .= $modx->getChunk($clRowTpl);
}
$modx->setPlaceholder('cl.wrapper', $wrapper);
$output = $modx->getChunk($clOuterTpl);

return $output;


      Create 2 chunks:
      clRowTpl for the <option> area like: <option>[[+cl.country]]</option>
      clOuterTpl for the <select area like: <select>[[+cl.wrapper]]</select>

      This snippet and the rest was made on demand so no testing has been done or funstuff. I might do a second version if needed to be able to contrl more stuff like where to place the selected option and add a first description select.

      In this version you can call it from a resource like [[CountryList? &clRowTpl=`row` &clOuterTpl=`outer`]]
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        eerne Reply #3, 13 years ago
        Thanks so much octoris! even with :FormItIsSelected it works all nicelly, here my chunks:
        <select name="country"[[!+fi.country:FormItIsSelected=`none`:is=`selected="selected"`:then=` class="invalid"`]]>
  <option value="none">Please select</option>
  [[+cl.wrapper]]
</select>

          <option value="[[+cl.country]]" [[!+fi.country:FormItIsSelected=`[[+cl.country]]`]]>[[+cl.country]]</option>

        thanks a lot!
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          moniarde Reply #4, 11 years, 2 months ago
          Quick edit to the code above - I wanted to add a default "selected" option.

          Snippet Code:
          <?php
$clRowTpl = isset( $clRowTpl ) ? $clRowTpl : 'clRowTpl';
$clOuterTpl = isset( $clOuterTpl ) ? $clOuterTpl : 'clOuterTpl';
// added this option
$clSelected = isset( $clSelected ) ? $clSelected : '';
 
$_country_lang = array();
include $modx->getOption('core_path').'lexicon/country/en.inc.php';
if ($modx->getOption('manager_language') != 'en' && file_exists($modx->getOption('core_path').'lexicon/country/'.$modx->getOption('manager_language').'.inc.php')) {
    include_once $modx->getOption('core_path').'lexicon/country/'.$modx->getOption('manager_language').'.inc.php';
}
asort($_country_lang);
 
$wrapper = "";
foreach ($_country_lang as $country) {
  	// added this if statement
  	if ($clSelected === $country) {
  		$modx->setPlaceholder('cl.selected', 'selected'); 	
  	} else {
  		$modx->setPlaceholder('cl.selected', '');
  	}
    $modx->setPlaceholder('cl.country', $country);
    $wrapper .= $modx->getChunk($clRowTpl);
}
$modx->setPlaceholder('cl.wrapper', $wrapper);
$output = $modx->getChunk($clOuterTpl);
 
return $output;

          And then for the row tpl:
          <option [[+cl.selected]]>[[+cl.country]]</option>

          Now just add the name of your chosen country:
          [[CountryList? &clRowTpl=`row` &clOuterTpl=`outer`  &clSelected=`Australia`]]

          Easy! Great snippet eerne!
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            SyberKnight Reply #5, 8 years, 2 months ago
            hi all,

            i keep trying everything above but all it does is break my page.

            what am i doing wrong?

            FYI 1:
            in an effort to provide all the relevant info, here's what i'm using & doing...

            ...EDITED OUT THE REST DUE TO FINDING THE ANSWER...

            I FOUND THE SOLUTION (for me) @ https://rtfm.modx.com/extras/revo/login/login.tutorials/login.extended-user-profiles#Login.ExtendedUserProfiles-Variations

            SCROLL TO THE VERY BOTTOM OF THE PAGE, TO THE "VARIATIONS" SECTION.
            IT WORKS OUTTA-THE-BOX, BUT YOU DO HAVE TO INSTALL FORMIT FOR IT TO WORK. BUT THAT'S IT. YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO ANYTHING ELSE WITH FORMIT IF YOU DON'T WANT.
            -2¢ [ed. note: syberknight last edited this post 8 years, 2 months ago.]