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Gravity Support Forums Topic: drop down value different than content text https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/drop-down-value-different-than-content-text Gravity Support Forums Topic: drop down value different than content text en-US Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:07:09 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 <![CDATA[Search]]> q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php ramon fincken on "drop down value different than content text" https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/drop-down-value-different-than-content-text#post-15676 Sat, 08 Jan 2011 09:42:21 +0000 ramon fincken 15676@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ Thanks Jan, works like a charm! Nick Ciske on "drop down value different than content text" https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/drop-down-value-different-than-content-text#post-8477 Thu, 12 Aug 2010 11:04:48 +0000 Nick Ciske 8477@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ FYI- if you want to set isSelected this way, you have to turn off the "Allow field to be populated dynamically" option to avoid GF overriding the manually set selection -- at least that's what I had to do to get my form working. This came in very handy when I needed to populate a drop down with a list of custom post types! Erwin van den Boogaard on "drop down value different than content text" https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/drop-down-value-different-than-content-text#post-3336 Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:12:02 +0000 Erwin van den Boogaard 3336@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ Alex wrote you don't need the second loop to set the "isSelected" property, but you seem to do the same as I did two posts ago ;) What's this different than the code that I came up with? Jan Egbert on "drop down value different than content text" https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/drop-down-value-different-than-content-text#post-3335 Fri, 12 Feb 2010 06:57:40 +0000 Jan Egbert 3335@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ Try the snippet below. Not sure if it's the most effecient method. But it seems to work fine. <pre><code>add_filter("gform_pre_render_4", "populate_and_preselect_country"); function populate_and_preselect_country($form){ $mycountries = array(); $mycountries[] = array("name" => "Canada", "value" => "CA"); $mycountries[] = array("name" => "France", "value" => "FR"); $mycountries[] = array("name" => "Germany", "value" => "DE"); $mycountries[] = array("name" => "Netherlands", "value" => "NL"); $mycountries[] = array("name" => "United Kingdom", "value" => "GB"); $mycountries[] = array("name" => "United States", "value" => "US"); $items = array(); foreach($mycountries as $mycountry){ $country = $_GET["country"]; $is_selected = $mycountry["value"] == $country ? true : false; $items[] = array("value" => $mycountry["value"], "text" => $mycountry["name"], "isSelected"=> $is_selected); } foreach($form["fields"] as &$field) if($field["id"] == 1){ $field["type"] = "select"; $field["choices"] = $items; } return $form; }</code></pre> Erwin van den Boogaard on "drop down value different than content text" https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/drop-down-value-different-than-content-text#post-3334 Fri, 12 Feb 2010 03:52:19 +0000 Erwin van den Boogaard 3334@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ Hi Alex, How do you mean 'technically you don't need the second loop to set the "isSelected" property. You can just set it along with the "text" and "value" when building the $items[] array'? Wouldn't i need to check the country_id if it matches? Or do you mean that i could include the 'if' while filling the array, like this: <code>$items[] = array("text" => "Canada", "value" => "CA", if ($country["value"] == 'US') "isSelected"=> true);</code> Regarding the storage of the country in the database: it would be great if both the text and value of drop down could be accessed independently, like: {country(text):6}, {country(value):6} (just thinking out loud here ;) ) Thanks, Erwin Alex Cancado on "drop down value different than content text" https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/drop-down-value-different-than-content-text#post-3326 Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:50:10 +0000 Alex Cancado 3326@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ Erwin, Your code looks good (technically you don't need the second loop to set the "isSelected" property. You can just set it along with the "text" and "value" when building the $items[] array, but it shouldn't cause any problems as is. Good job hacking Gravity Forms! Using the "value" property of drop down items is something we are planning on incorporating into Gravity Forms, but haven't fully implemented it yet. The only possible drawback I can think of is that the country stored in the database will be the abbreviation. So if you send notification to users, the abbreviation will be sent. This may or may not be ok. Erwin van den Boogaard on "drop down value different than content text" https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/drop-down-value-different-than-content-text#post-3319 Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:30:15 +0000 Erwin van den Boogaard 3319@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ Sorry to say, but it didn't work :( I have this to populate the drop down (this works) <pre><code>add_filter( 'gform_pre_render_1', 'populate_dropdown' ); function populate_dropdown($form){ $items = array(); $items[] = array("text" => "Canada", "value" => "CA"); $items[] = array("text" => "France", "value" => "FR"); $items[] = array("text" => "Germany", "value" => "DE"); $items[] = array("text" => "Netherlands", "value" => "NL"); $items[] = array("text" => "United Kingdom", "value" => "GB"); $items[] = array("text" => "United States", "value" => "US"); foreach($form["fields"] as &$field) if($field["id"] == 6){ $field["type"] = "select"; $field["choices"] = $items; } return $form; }</code></pre> Now, to pre-select the drop down the following code SHOULD work, but it doesn't: <pre><code>add_filter("gform_field_value_country", "populate_country"); function populate_country(){ $country_value = 'US'; // for testing purposes I hard-coded setting the value return $country_value; }</code></pre> But what SHOULD NOT work, but did work is the following: <pre><code>add_filter("gform_field_value_country", "populate_country"); function populate_country(){ $country_value = 'United States'; // for testing purposes I hard-coded setting the value return $country_value; }</code></pre> Unfortunately I only have the real value (US, UK, NL, etc.) to select the correct one. So here's what did work: I added the following after $items[] = array("text" => "United States", "value" => "US"); <pre><code>foreach($items as &$country ) if ($country["value"] == 'US' { $country = array("text" => $country["text"], "value" => $country["value"], "isSelected"=> true); }</code></pre> Note: I'm not a PHP coder, I'm a code thief ;) so some copy-pasting and adding some common sense/logic takes me a long way. I did get the result I wanted BUT what I don't know is if the code will bring a heavy strain on the server or wreck my Gravity form in any way. So can you please check if my code gets your OK? Thanks, Erwin Alex Cancado on "drop down value different than content text" https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/drop-down-value-different-than-content-text#post-3308 Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:56:40 +0000 Alex Cancado 3308@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ Just to confirm, Carl's solution above will work. Carl Hancock on "drop down value different than content text" https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/drop-down-value-different-than-content-text#post-3302 Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:41:27 +0000 Carl Hancock 3302@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ Typically you would use PHP in your themes function.php to pre-select it... - Edit the field - Select Advanced Tab - Check the "Allow field to be populated dynamically" checkbox - Give the field a parameter name Place the code in your function file... Ex. <pre><code>add_filter("gform_field_value_city", "populate_city"); function populate_city(){ $city_value = "New York"; return $city_value; }</code></pre> However i'm not 100% sure if it will work when you are pre-populating the actual values using custom code. BUT you can certainly try doing it this way and place the filter above to pre-select the drop down item BELOW the code where you populate the drop down... that might work. Let me know how it goes. Erwin van den Boogaard on "drop down value different than content text" https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/drop-down-value-different-than-content-text#post-3297 Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:57:56 +0000 Erwin van den Boogaard 3297@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ By using PHP.