RE: showEmpty?

I had a same / similar question for input selects which is related to this.

I have my echo $form->input('State'); which is populated by a find list...so
I have all my States. How can I add so first option to be "Select your
State" with no value? Right now Alabama shows up first and if a user does
not select a State Alabama is automatically saved.

$selected = array('option' => 'Select your State', 'value' => '0')?

Thanks,

Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: Miles J [mailto:mileswjohnson@gmail.com]
Sent: October-04-09 7:35 AM
To: CakePHP
Subject: Re: showEmpty?

You should only be using input().

echo $form->input('State', array('options' => array('NJ' => New Jersey',
'NY' => 'New York'), 'empty' => false));

On Oct 3, 7:33 pm, Gonzalo Servat <gser...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 7:21 AM,
gimperdan...@gmail.com<gimperdan...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> [..snip..]
>
> > This is what I have:
>
> > echo $form->select('State', array('NJ' => New Jersey', 'NY' => 'New
> > York'));
>
> > I want to remove the empty option of this select box. According to
> > the API I need to add $showEmpty = false to the code above.. but
> > where do I add it? I tried in several different locations and it won't
work.
>
> The function's arguments are:
>
> select($fieldName, $options = array(), $selected = null, $attributes =
> array(), $showEmpty = '')
>
> You only supplied the first and second arguments so if you want to
> keep the defaults for the rest except for $showEmpty, you'd need to do
> something like the following:
>
> echo $form->select('State', array('NJ' => 'New Jersey', 'NY' => 'New
> York'), null, array(), false)
>
> (notice I kept the defaults "null" and "array()" for the arguments
> between $options and $showEmpty)
>
> - Gonzalo

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