Don't publish content with selection attribute value 'Select'

Sunday 19 December 2010 3:11:07 am

Are you sure you just don't want to set this attribute to required which will reject any blank input?

If it really has to match and reject on some other value than blank (and you aren't setting the value and id of your dropdown to select are you - that would be an easy template fix) - then I would suggest creating another datatype to handle this instead of mucking around with the ezselection datatype.

If you REALLY must edit the ezselection type (i.e if you tons of existing ezselection types that have to follow these rules if they are edited), then look at kernel/classes/datatypes/ezselection/ezselectiontype.php at the validateObjectAttributeHTTPInput function. That would, I think, be the most logical place to add additional validation.

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Monday 20 December 2010 3:03:50 am

It doesn't make much sense to me to put the null value in the attribute. We mostly solve this by overriding the edit ezselection with something like this:

<option value=""> {"Select:"|i18n('design/whatever')}</option>

{foreach $attribute.class_content.options as $index}

<option value="{$Options.id}"> {$option-name[$index]}</option>

{/foreach}

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