[ItsYii]

Hi all

I'm using a ajax drop down, one drop down influences the other via ajax call. Everything works but I have some annoying issues.

Here's my code

Controller

public function actionShowcity(){
	
	$dropShows = "<option value='null'>Select Showroom </option>";
 
            // return data (JSON formatted)
            echo CJSON::encode(array(
              'dropShows'=>$dropShows,
             
            ));
if( isset($_POST['city_id'])){


    $data=Showroom::model()->findAll('Title=:Title', 
                  array(':Title'=>(String) $_POST['city_id']));
 
    
				   $data=CHtml::listData($data,'ID','Name');
    foreach($data as $value=>$name)
    {
        echo CHtml::tag('option',
                   array('value'=>$value),CHtml::encode($name),true);
				   
				   
    }
}

   
}


public function actionGotoShow(){
     $data=Showroom::model()->findAll('Name=:Name', 
     array(':Name'=>(String) $_POST['myID']));
	 $this->redirect(array('/showroom'.'/'.$_POST['myID']));

}

index

<?= CHtml::form(); ?>
	<?php
	$options["options"] = array("style" => "color:red;");
	echo CHtml::dropDownList('city_id','', CHtml::listData(Showroom::model()->findAll(),'Title', 'Title'),
array(
"style" => "color:#989898; width:200px; height:30px;",
'empty'=>'Choose a City',
'ajax' => array(
'type'=>'POST', //request type

'url'=>CController::createUrl('showroom/showcity'), //url to call.
'update'=>'#myID', //selector to update
))); 
 
echo CHtml::dropDownList('myID','', array(), array( 
"style" => "color:#989898; width:200px; height:30px;",
'empty'=>'Pick City first',
	'submit'=> '/index.php/showroom/GotoShow'));
?>	
<?= CHtml::endForm(); ?>

So I choose my first drop down, and the message select showroom comes out as

select Showroom<\/option>"} exactly like that with all the symbols.

if I remove the closing option I get select Showroom"} (the comma and curly bracket included)

Also I have 2 version of the site one is arabic so when I do this

$dropShows = "<option value='null'>يبسب";
 
            // return data (JSON formatted)
            echo CJSON::encode(array(
              'dropShows'=>$dropShows,
             
            ));

The result is {" u064a\aU0628\u0633\

Anyone know how I can 1) get rid off the symbols and 2) get the Arabic letters to display?


EDIT: There's a function that converts to UTF8 but it's not working, the drop down stops working

	$dropShows = "<option value='null'>يبسب";
 $dropShows = CJSON::unicodeToUTF8( $dropShows );
            // return data (JSON formatted)
            echo CJSON::encode(array(
              'dropShows'=>$dropShows,
             
            ));

Thanks

[Ganesh Bora]

please check around json::encode function.