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Re: Requiring something from a drop-down

2012-01-15T11:17:05-05:00

Very welcome. I'll reference your other thread here:
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=16836&p=60574#p60574
Currently investigating, and we'll continue discussion in the other thread please. Thanks!

Statistics: Posted by Jason Caldwell — January 15th, 2012, 11:17 am

Re: Requiring something from a drop-down

2012-01-15T11:09:51-05:00

Great Jason, thank you. I hope you will also look at the other bug I posted about, where admins who edit users have some custom fields that are menus reset when editing.

Statistics: Posted by philipt18 — January 15th, 2012, 11:09 am

Re: Requiring something from a drop-down

2012-01-15T11:04:17-05:00

Thanks for your patience.

Yes, this is a bug. I'm having this corrected in the next maintenance release. Until then, you can get ahead in the game if you like, by downloading the attached patch file. Unzip and upload this file, allowing it override your existing copy of /s2member/includes/classes/custom-reg-fields.inc.php

This file patches an existing installation of s2Member v111220.custom-reg-fields.inc.php.zip

Statistics: Posted by Jason Caldwell — January 15th, 2012, 11:04 am

Re: Requiring something from a drop-down

2012-01-15T00:53:48-05:00

Investigating this now.

Statistics: Posted by Jason Caldwell — January 15th, 2012, 12:53 am

Re: Requiring something from a drop-down

2012-01-11T14:04:30-05:00

I recreated the bug. That's interesting. Looking at the HTML source, it shows that all of the lines with an empty value (i.e., what goes before the first separator) automatically get the selected="selected" attribute added:

Code:

The browser is simply using the last selected="selected" item as the default (in this case, Canada).

I will report this to the development team and see if they know what's going on.

Thank you for your patience!

Statistics: Posted by Raam Dev — January 11th, 2012, 2:04 pm

Re: Requiring something from a drop-down

2012-01-11T14:03:22-05:00

As I explained, that's exactly what I did. However, it seems there is a bug in selecting the default value in the list I provided.

Statistics: Posted by philipt18 — January 11th, 2012, 2:03 pm

Re: Requiring something from a drop-down

2012-01-11T13:51:22-05:00

You can do this by making the select field required (Field Required: * = Yes ( required )) and then making your first item have a blank value (the item before the first separator):

|Please select one...|default
US|United States
CA|Canada
VI|Virgin Islands (U.S.)

I tested this and when I fill out my registration form leaving the country on "Please select one...", and then press submit, here's what I get:

Screen shot 2012-01-11 at 13.48.01 .png

Statistics: Posted by Raam Dev — January 11th, 2012, 1:51 pm

Re: Requiring something from a drop-down

2012-01-11T13:40:54-05:00

Statistics: Posted by philipt18 — January 11th, 2012, 1:40 pm

Re: Requiring something from a drop-down

2012-01-10T10:43:12-05:00

Any ideas here? Is there no way to require a drop-down menu without specifying a default value?

Statistics: Posted by philipt18 — January 10th, 2012, 10:43 am

Requiring something from a drop-down

2012-01-09T05:54:33-05:00

I'm looking to require the user to select a country during registration. I have a country list in a drop-down. Originally I added a default country, but people are lazy and leave that country checked even if they live in a different country. So I want to have no country selected and make them choose one from the list. I tried to make a NULL value the default, but apparently NULL is accepted as a value. How do I set it up so the country is required, but nothing is selected?

Thank you.

Statistics: Posted by philipt18 — January 9th, 2012, 5:54 am