tep_draw_pull_down_menu and disallowing first choice

[vipes]

I am trying to make it so that the drop down list from the Choose Your Recipient have a first entry called "Please Choose". That's the easy part. The hard part is making osCommerce disallow the default entry found in the drop down list.

 

I studied the function tep_draw_pull_down_menu in html_output.php, but couldn't figure it out. There must be a way that can make tep_draw_pull_down_menu disallow the first choice...But I don't know how to do it.

 

Does anyone else have the same trouble?

 

<?php 
	  if (CONTACT_US_LIST !=''){
				  echo '<tr><td class="main">'. SEND_TO_TEXT. '</td></tr>'
			 		.'<tr><td class="main">';
			 if(SEND_TO_TYPE=='radio'){
			 foreach(explode("," ,CONTACT_US_LIST) as $k => $v) {
				if($k==0){
				$checked=true;
				}else{
				$checked=false;
				}
				echo tep_draw_radio_field('send_to', "$k", $checked). " " .preg_replace('/\<[^*]*/', '', $v)."<br>\n";
			 }

		   }else{
			   foreach(explode("," ,CONTACT_US_LIST) as $k => $v) {
					$send_to_array[] = array('id' => $k, 'text' => preg_replace('/\<[^*]*/', '', $v));
				 }
			echo tep_draw_pull_down_menu('send_to',  $send_to_array, 'Please Choose');
		   }

		echo "\n</td></tr>\n";

		}
		 ?>

[chooch]

why bother? there is a contribution that already does that.. go to the contributions section and download it

[vipes]

I must be insane.

 

I've searched the forums and the contributions for this and couldn't find anything that would solve the problem. What contribution are you talking about?

[Guest]

there are contributions like the helpdesk that use something like that.

http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,859

 

To disallow the first choice simply do not process it when the form is submitted. Instead use the error function and submit an error $messageStack->add

 

See how the contact_us and create_account script do that.