Son of MultiSelect

As ongoing detimmification takes place, another mighty blow is struck against custom HTML controls coded by the one we call... Tim.

Son of Multiselect is a more usable, all browsers, gracefully failing custom control that kind of just stole my heart a little.

Embedding it in HTML_QuickForm is a piece of piss too.

require_once('HTML/QuickForm.php');
require_once('HTML/QuickForm/select.php');

$GLOBALS['HTML_QUICKFORM_ELEMENT_TYPES']['mselect'] = 
   array('HTML/QuickForm/mselect.php','HTML_QuickForm_mselect');

class HTML_QuickForm_mselect extends HTML_QuickForm_select {


// {{{ toHtml()
/**
* Returns the SELECT in HTML
*
* @since     1.0
* @access    public
* @return    string
*/
function toHtml()
{
   if (!defined('HTML_QUICKFORM_MSELECT_EXISTS')) {
       $js = '<script type="text/javascript" 
                  src=\'multiselect.js\'></script>' . "\n";
       define('HTML_QUICKFORM_MSELECT_EXISTS', true);
   } else {
       $js = "";
   }
          
   return $js . parent::toHTML();
} //end func toHtml

// }}}

} //end class HTML_QuickForm_mselect

Using it?

  public static function MultipleSelect( $name, $elements,
                                             $params, $default = array()) {

      ob_start();
      require_once( 'HTML/QuickForm/mselect.php' );
      $a = @HTML_Quickform::createElement( 'mselect', $name, 
                                             "", $elements, $params );
      $a->setMultiple(true);
    
      $a->setValue( $default );
      print $a->toHtml();

      return ob_get_clean();
  }

Tada: Pretty, isn't it

print CLS_html::MultipleSelect2("control[]",
                                   array("one", "two", "three"),
                                   array("size" => 6), array(1));