trying to save multiple select fields using update_options

  • I need to display a list of all pages in a select field for a plugin I am developing. I want multiple pages to be able to be selected. I have been reading and reading, but still don’t seem to get how this works. I am getting frustrated as this should be easy… :/

    I can get the selected fields to echo out, but they don’t seem to be saving, i.e. when page is reloaded the selections are gone.

    the fields:

    <select id="exclude_page_from_cookies" name="exclude_page_from_cookies[]" multiple="multiple">
			<?php

			$pages = get_pages();
			foreach ( $pages as $page ) {
				$title = $page->post_title;
				$id    = $page->id;
				?>

				<option id="<?php echo $id; ?>" value="<?php echo $title ?>" <?php selected( $title ); ?> >
					<?php echo $title;?>
				</option>
			<?php
			}
			?>
		</select>

    The save

    if ( isset( $_POST['exclude_page_from_cookies'] ) ) {
			foreach( $_POST['exclude_page_from_cookies'] as $exclude_page ) {
				echo $exclude_page;
				update_option( 'exclude_page_from_cookies', $exclude_page ) ;
			}
		}

    Thank you all in advance.

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  • Mark

    (@delayedinsanity)

    By looping through the array when you’re saving the form submission, you’re overwriting exclude_page_from_cookies multiple times, depending on how many pages were selected. This results in exclude_page_from_cookies only ever containing the last page in the array.

    Save the array as it’s passed (short of any validation you want to run on it), then use in_array() to test selected().

    The form:

    <select id="exclude_pages_from_cookie" name="exclude_pages_from_cookie[]" multiple="multiple" accesskey="e">
    <?php
    $results = get_pages();
    $selected = get_option('exclude_pages_from_cookie', array());

    foreach ($results as $page):
        ?>
        <option value="<?php echo $page->post_name; ?>" <?php echo selected(in_array($page->post_name, $selected)); ?>>
            <?php echo $page->post_title; ?>
        </option>
        <?php
    endforeach;
    ?>
</select>

    The save (without any error checking, don’t forget to validate your data):

    if (array_key_exists('exclude_pages_from_cookie', $_POST)) {
    update_option( 'exclude_pages_from_cookie', $_POST['exclude_pages_from_cookie']);
}

    I just noticed how old this post was. Oh well, responding anyway!

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