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[tip] Create combo boxes in your hacks' options
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14 Aug 2007
Let's suppose you're making a hack that is controlled by one or more setting groups in the vBulletin Options. Yes/No radios, edit boxes and textareas are fine for most cases. But what happens if you want to offer a selection from some predefined values? Make the user enter them in a text box? Hmm that would work but what about typos? It's also unprofessional. So, when you want to create a combo box, enter in the setting's Option Code the following: Code:
select:piped 1|Description1 2|Description2 3|Description3 4|Description4 In your code however, you'll check the option for the values in the beginning of each option (in this case 1,2,3,4), as they represent the value that will be assigned to $vbulletin->options['mysetting'] (where 'mysetting' is the varname of your setting in this example). Its not obligatory that these values are numbers. Also, the descriptions may have blanks and everything, they can even be a phrase (however I don't know how that's done). Hope this helps. 
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