Combo: If no value in combo then show all

Suite and Optimus Suite 5
#1

Hi,

I have a dhtmlXCombo setup that loads a XML file generated by a PHP file based on user input.
In the PHP file I have set it up so that if the PHP file returns a blank value ($foobar == ‘’), all the rows will be fetched from database table. If a value different from blank value ($foobar != ‘’), then we will do a SQL search with LIKE ‘$foobar%’.

Okay… Fine enough!

Now: If there is no value in the combobox when it is opened up, i want the menu to fetch all rows from database.

How can I accomplish this? Because right now when I try to open the menu if no value is entered, the menu will never open up.

Any suggestion is warmly welcome.

Thank you in advance.

#2

Hi,

if all options are loaded at once when the mask is empty, why do you use dynamic loading ?
It would be better to use the following:

combo.enableFilteringMode(true);
combo.loadXML(url); /xml that contains all the options/

instead of

combo.enableFilteringMode(true,url);

In this case all options will be loaded at once and behave as you need.

#3

Yes Alexandra, you are correct.

I found this out yesterday while digging deeper in to the documentation.

Sorry for this and thank you as usual!

(PS! I am now a paying customer of the complete suite. Why? Because your scripts are simply magnificent!)