[solved] activeDropDownList default selected value

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
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In my enquiry table I have a field ‘region’, this stores the index value of the region ID.




public function getRegions()

{

	return array(

		1=>'England',

		2=>'Ireland',

		3=>'Scotland',

		4=>'Wales',

	);

}


public function getEnquiryRegion()

{

	return $this->Regions[$this->region];

}

I now wish to populate a dropDownList for attribute ‘supplier_region’, which is defined as public $supplier_region (does not exist in the database).

Using normal dropDownList method I can do:


echo CHtml::dropDownList('supplier_region', $model->EnquiryRegion, $model->Regions);

And that will auto-select the correct region. But how can I do this using activeDropDownList?


echo CHtml::activeDropDownList($model, 'supplier_region', $model->Regions);
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need to set value before;

$model->region = 2;




$model->region = $model->EnquiryRegion;

echo CHtml::activeDropDownList($model, 'region', $model->Regions);
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I was just going to put this out there for anyone who wants to set a default selected value on new records only:

Here’s what I’ve come up with:




	<?php $model->isNewRecord ? $model->address_country = 'US' : ''; // default ?>

	<div class="row">

		<?php echo $form->labelEx($model,'address_country'); ?>

		<?php echo $form->dropDownList($model,'address_country',$model->getCountriesList()); ?>

		<?php echo $form->error($model,'address_country'); ?>

	</div>

Hope it helps someone :)

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