Adding a dropdown list to admin/categories.php

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Hi

 

I'm trying to write a contribution that includes adding extra value to my product tables.

 

I can get the code to work with an input field - but would ideally like to change this to a dropdown list. The code that is in question is

 

 

	 <tr>
		<td class="main"><?php echo TEXT_PRODUCTS_SURFER_RECOMMENDED_WEIGHT; ?></td>
		<td class="main">


  <?php echo tep_draw_separator('pixel_trans.gif', '24', '15') . ' ' . tep_draw_input_field('surferRecWeight', $pInfo->surferRecWeight); ?></td>
	  </tr>

 

 

so instead of using tep_draw_input_field - i would like to use tep_draw_pull_down_menu. I know that the second arguement for the function tep_draw_pull_down_menu needs to be my array for the drop list. I have tried a couple of different ways to make the array ie

 

$ability_array = array('Expert', 'Average', 'Novice');

 

OR

 

$ability_array = array(0 => 'Expert', 1 => 'Average', 2 => 'Novice');

 

OR

 

$ability_array[0] ='Expert';
$ability_array[1]  = 'Average';
$ability_array[2]  = 'Novice';

 

either way I get the same result which is that the drop down list only has the first letter of my array element - 'e','a',' & 'n'.

 

does anyone know why. I know that the function allows strings more than one character ?

 

 

 

the code I am using to call up the function is

 

 

echo tep_draw_separator('pixel_trans.gif', '24', '15') . ' ' . tep_draw_pull_down_menu('surferRecAbility', $ability_array, $pInfo->surferRecAbility);