[html-formfu] How to make AJax style drop down box

[Carl Franks]

On 10/07/07, kewei xiao <kewei.xiao at nald.ca> wrote:
> Thank you for the hint.  now I have another problem that my customized
> province and state drop down box can't get data from database.
> Also select box labels ( 'Province'  or 'State' ) are dynamically
> changed.  Can I archive that in my customized select box?  below is my code:
>
> use strict;
> use warnings;
>
> use base qw ( HTML::FormFu::Element::select );
>
> sub new {
>   my $self = shift->SUPER::new( @_ );
>
>   my $c = $self->form->stash->{ context };
>   my $countries
>       = $c->model( 'GuestBook::Country' )->search(
>       { 'me.lang' => $c->language },
>       {   order_by => 'me.country_id, subcountries.sort_name',
>           prefetch => 'subcountries'
>       }
>   );
>
>   while ( my $country = $countries->next ) {
>         my $subcountries = $country->subcountries;
>         #my $subcountry_types =
> $country->subcountries->first->subcountry_type; ( this is either label
> 'Province' or label 'State', it depends on the country I chose)
>
>         $self->options( [ {}, map { {
>             label => $_->name,
>             value => $_->subcountry_id }
>             } $subcountries->all ] );
>   };
> return $self;
> }

Sorry this got passed over.
Are you still having a problem with this?
If so - could you explain exactly what the problem is - I didn't
really get it the first time.

Cheers,
Carl