Selects with values of 0 cannot default to null

• dachusa

• January 22, 2014 at 3:54 am

If I build up a select and have an option that has a value of 0, it becomes the default selected value.

If I mark allow null, I cannot get the select to default to –select–. I could change my starting value to 1 to get around this, but I have built up a number of fields with sequential values for conditional fields. If I change my values the conditionals are all messed up.

• Elliot

• January 22, 2014 at 11:57 am

Hi @dachusa

Thanks for the bug report. Just to clarify, the issue is if you create a select field with the choices 0 and 1, and also check the options for ‘allow null’, the value 0 is selected on new posts?

Thanks
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• dachusa

• January 23, 2014 at 8:10 am

Correct.

Values
0 : First Option
1 : Second Option

Default null: selected

Select box has:

–select–
First Option (Selected)
Second Option

• dachusa

• January 23, 2014 at 8:11 am

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• Elliot

• January 24, 2014 at 9:44 am

Hi @dachusa

Thanks mate. I’ll look intoit.

Cheers
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• bonbouaz

• June 23, 2018 at 6:44 pm

That answer could help me too 🙂

• bonbouaz

• July 4, 2018 at 9:15 am

Okay, I would suggest the following change :

line 136, file /core/fields/select.php

$selected = in_array(strval($key), array_map("strval", $field['value']) ) ? 'selected="selected"' : '';

in order to solve this problem