[manhooei]

I have this dropdown list, when I select the item from it the ajax post the item number
to the controller. I don't want the integer number, I actually want the name of the
selected item. So how can I perform something like that ?

here is my code :

echo $form->dropDownList($model,'user_country',$countryList,
array(
'ajax' => array(
'type' => 'POST',
'url' => CController::createUrl('signup/dynamicstates'),
'update' => '#User_user_region'
)
));

I want the post method sends the select country name in the list "USA" instead of 0 or 1 or any digit.

[ktwbc]

How is $countryList being built? If you want a text value, it's simplest just to build it there.

For example, you could actually reference back a function from your model to dynamically get the list, such as replacing $countryList with

echo $form->dropDownList($model,'user_country',$model->Countries,
array(
'ajax' => array(
'type' => 'POST',
'url' => CController::createUrl('signup/dynamicstates'),
'update' => '#User_user_region'
)
));

then in your model:

	public function getCountries() {

		return CHtml::listData(Country::model()->findAllByAttributes(array('active'=>1),array('order'=>'sort_order,country')), 'country', 'country');

	}

note the 'country','country' instead of a typical 'id','country' so it's using the text label as both the value and the label.