Thank you very much for the reply. I have been looking high and low for a
solution.
I will let you know how I go with this.
Thanks
Themselves wrote:
>
> I have spent WAY too much time getting this exact scenario working using
> Zend Dojo forms and an MVC environment, and I plan on building an
> extensive
> article explaining it all soon, but for now, here's the really quick and
> dirty version. I haven't gotten my version perfect yet, I'm still not
> happy
> with the URLs I'm calling to retrieve the data, but that's not a huge
> deal.
> Anyway, on with the show.
>
> First of all, here's your two form elements.
>
> $this->addElement('FilteringSelect', 'fk_client_id', array(
> 'label' => 'Client:',
> 'storeId' => 'clientStore',
> 'storeType'=> 'dojo.data.ItemFileReadStore',
> 'storeParams' => array( 'url' =>
> '/clients/autocomplete/format/ajax?autocomplete=1&str=*',),
> 'autoComplete' => 'false',
> 'hasDownArrow' => 'true',
> 'id' => 'fk_client_id',
> ));
>
> $this->addElement('FilteringSelect', 'fk_client_contact_id',
> array(
> 'label' => 'Client contact:',
> 'storeId' => 'clientContactStore',
> 'storeType'=> 'dojo.data.ItemFileReadStore',
> 'autoComplete' => 'false',
> 'hasDownArrow' => 'true',
> 'id' => 'fk_client_contact_id',
> ));
>
> Now for the javascript, this has to appear somewhere on the page that
> contains the form.
>
> dojo.connect(dijit.byId('fk_client_id'), 'onChange', function () {
> dijit.byId('fk_client_contact_id').store = new
> dojo.data.ItemFileReadStore({ url:
> "/clientcontacts/autocomplete/format/ajax?autocomplete=1&fk_client_id=" +
> dijit.byId("fk_client_id").value });
> });
>
>
> As for the URLs for the Datastores, they are kind of an exercise for the
> reader, other than to say they obviously should filter correctly on the
> passed parameters, and they have to return JSON. This part was pretty
> annoying, but I eventually found that a function like this returns the
> correct JSON format:
>
> public function prepareAutoCompletion($data) {
> $items = array();
> foreach ($data as $key => $value) {
> $items[] = array('label' => $value, 'name' => $value, 'key' =>
> $key);
> }
> $final = array(
> 'identifier' => 'key',
> 'items' => $items,
> );
> return $this->encodeJson($final);
> }
>
>
> You pass in to the function an array of id => value pairs, and it will
> output the correct JSON for the FilteringSelects. If you use the built in
> AutoCompleteDojo helper, it won't use the id from your table as the value
> that the form submits, which is pretty much useless.
>
> Oh, and one more trick, for the Edit action, you are going to need to
> include something like this:
>
> $form->populate($row);
> $form->getElement('fk_client_contact_id')->setStoreParams(array( 'url' =>
> '/clientcontacts/autocomplete/format/ajax?&autocomplete=1&fk_client_id=' .
> $form->getElement('fk_client_id')->getValue() ));
>
> So that it prepopulates the form correctly.
>
> I promise I'll write up a really impressive document that spells this
> whole
> thing out in painstaking detail, I'm just absolutely flat out until
> christmas, I haven't had any time!
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 10:58 AM, Ace Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> I have a form, which I would like to use dependent drop downs in. I can't
>> seem to find anything about it hear, after looking all morning trying to
>> work it out.
>> I have one field "race_country"
>> when an option is selected I would like to show the cities in that
>> country.
>> The following is what I have currently in the form, which will show all
>> countries and all cities.
>> Any help would be great. thanks
>>
>> $table = new Country();
>> foreach ($table->fetchAll() as $c) {
>> $country->addMultiOption($c->country_id, $c->country_name);
>> }
>> $this->addElement( $country);
>>
>> $city = new Zend_Form_Element_Select('race_city');
>> $city->setLabel('City')
>> ->setRequired(true);
>>
>> $table = new City();
>> foreach ($table->fetchAll() as $c) {
>> $city->addMultiOption($c->city_id, $c->city_name);
>> }
>> $this->addElement( $city);
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