Hopbot log for 2008-02-28 - Helma IRC channel: #helma on irc.freenode.net
2008-02-28:
[6:12] <nono> hello[6:12] <nono> anyone alive?
[7:08] <nono> nope?
[7:55] <zumbrunn_> hi nono
[7:55] <zumbrunn_> still around?
[8:09] <nono> yes
[8:09] <nono> would be so cool if you could help me
[8:09] <zumbrunn> I'll try :-)
[8:10] <nono> Sweet!
[8:10] <nono> So I am messing with Greasemonkey
[8:10] <nono> I want to do something hopefully simple >)
[8:10] <nono> I have a multiple select box on a page
[8:11] <nono> I simple want to use greasemonkey to set options of the multiple select box based on the value of said options
[8:11] <zumbrunn> like an autofill
[8:11] <nono> so say the box had options 1 2 3 and 4
[8:11] <nono> exactlz
[8:11] <nono> and I told greasemonkey to select 2 and 3
[8:12] <nono> but for it to be usefull I would like to to read from an arraz
[8:12] <nono> array
[8:14] <nono> I have the autofill script up and I was using it as a base
[8:14] <nono> http://phpfi.com/299314
[8:16] <zumbrunn> so, you are already reading from an array ...or what do you mean by that?
[8:16] <nono> So unlike a text field I don|t just want to set one value
[8:16] <nono> Since I am dealing with a multi select box
[8:16] <nono> I would like to use an array of values in my case numbers to populate the autofill
[8:18] <zumbrunn> so, for some of the values you'll specify arrays instead of strings
[8:19] <zumbrunn> and then change the code below to check for that and loop through them
[8:19] <zumbrunn> where are you stuck?
[8:19] <nono> I don't even need anything that complex
[8:20] <nono> I have a field called productcolor_id[]
[8:20] <nono> I would like to make a simple script that selects the values 4,5,6 from an array
[8:20] <nono> allFields = document.getElementsByTagName('select');
[8:21] <nono> I think i should be using that
[8:21] <nono> but I am not quite sure how
[8:24] <zumbrunn> you mean you know the id of the select element you want?
[8:24] <zumbrunn> then you don't need to use getElementsByTagName at all
[8:24] <zumbrunn> and use getElementById
[8:25] <nono> cool
[8:26] <zumbrunn> you're in the wrong channel for this kind of stuff, by the way :-)
[8:26] <nono> so that will return the elements of productcolor_id in an array?
[8:26] <nono> lol sorry i found a like on some website
[8:26] <zumbrunn> this belongs more on ##javascript
[8:26] <zumbrunn> this channel here is about helma.org
[8:26] <nono> ic
[8:27] <zumbrunn> which is javascript on the server-side
[8:27] <nono> sounds cool but I am still learning client side :)
[8:27] <nono> Do you think you could still assist me a tad?
[8:27] <zumbrunn> re: productcolor_id... no, just the parent ellement
[8:28] <zumbrunn> you'll stil need to loop through the options
[8:28] <zumbrunn> like it is done in the code you posted
[8:29] <zumbrunn> (the inner for loop)
[8:29] <nono> and can I just call .selected = true?
[8:30] <zumbrunn> yes
[8:32] <nono> ok only think I am not clear on is how to return the options from the select object
[8:32] <nono> thing*
[8:33] <nono> is there a function like in php called inarray()
[8:34] <nono> which checks the array for the current value and returns true or false
[9:57] <zumbrunn> nono: that's what the inner for loop does
[9:58] <zumbrunn> re: inarray() ... we have a contains Array method in Helma on the server-side
[9:58] <zumbrunn> http://helma.zumbrunn.com/reference/ArrayExtensions.html
[9:59] <zumbrunn> but you can't extend the array prototype on the client-side like this
[9:59] <zumbrunn> but many of the popular client-side js libraries offer some way to do this
[10:00] <zumbrunn> for exmaple, jquery has a jQuery.inArray() helper method
[10:01] <zumbrunn> m31uk3: (didn't notice you changed your name)
[10:04] <zumbrunn> actually, for what you want to achieve, injecting jquery wouldn't be a bad idea
[10:07] <zumbrunn> then you could do... $('productcolor_id').children().each(function(){(jQuery.inArray($(this).html(),yourArray)+1) ? $(this).attr('selected','selected') : $(this).removeAttr('selected')})