Hello,

I am new to october cms and struggling. I must be looking in a completly wrong direction or expect something that simply isn't there with October. Please shed some light. I feel like an idiot :) :

In the fields.yaml of a model myModel i have a simple dropdown:

origin:
        label: 'Origin'
        span: auto
        type: dropdown

in the myModel class:

 public function getOriginOptions()
{
     return ['ch' => 'Switzerland',
             'at' => 'Austria',
             'de' => 'Germany'
         ];
 }

So I can create records which save to database with ch ,at or de for the column origin

Everything fine.

But then in the twig part of a front-end page : If I write {{ record.origin }} (where record is one record of myModel) , I simply get ch ,at or de rendered. But I want to display Switzerland ,Austria or Germany

...What basic concept am I missing here? What is the right way to display the value instead of the key?

Thank you very much for your time Christopher

Last updated 8 years ago

Hey,

You could simply set your array keys to the value, e.g:

return ['Switzerland' => 'Switzerland',
             'Austria' => 'Austria',
             'Germany' => 'Germany'
         ];

Or, render your twig as follows:

{{ record.getOriginOptions[record.origin] }}

You could also write a method in your model to retrieve the title value which you call in twig, something along the lines of:

public function getOrigin()
{
    $options = $this->getOriginOptions();
    return isset($options[$this->origin])
        ? $options[$this->origin]
        : '';
}

Which you could call in twig as {{ record.getOrigin }}

My preference would probably be the last suggestion.

You can use accessor here. Add this to your model:

public function getOriginAttribute()
{
    $value = array_get($this->attributes, 'origin');
    return array_get($this->getOriginOptions(), $value);
}

Got it. :)

Shantarli's advice works like a charm.

Toughdevelopers suggestions 2 and 3 probably have some little flaw and don't output anything for me.

Anyway: Thank you both!