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authorDerek Jones <derek.jones@ellislab.com>2009-04-08 18:14:17 +0200
committerDerek Jones <derek.jones@ellislab.com>2009-04-08 18:14:17 +0200
commit26399298164f1fb6eaa4764b543b876766dacf0a (patch)
treebaa727ad02f67946125dd0392463b23c704f376e /user_guide/helpers
parent57fe41072c9d97d3cba2cd5faef529ac94571bfb (diff)
added form_multiselect() to form helper to make it easier to create multiselect fields, and to make it a bit more semantically correct to boot
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@@ -241,6 +241,14 @@ echo form_dropdown('shirts', $options, 'large', $js);</code>
<p>If the array passed as $options is a multidimensional array, form_dropdown() will produce an &lt;optgroup&gt; with the array key as the label.</p>
+<h2>form_multiselect()</h2>
+
+<p>Lets you create a standard multiselect field. The first parameter will contain the name of the field,
+the second parameter will contain an associative array of options, and the third parameter will contain the
+value or values you wish to be selected. The parameter usage is identical to using <kbd>form_dropdown()</kbd> above,
+except of course that the name of the field will need to use POST array syntax, e.g. <samp>foo[]</samp>.</p>
+
+
<h2>form_fieldset()</h2>
<p>Lets you generate fieldset/legend fields.</p>