Hi,

I'm facing a problem, when I select a category it shows items for this category but in the dropdown it doesn't keep selected category and shows "All categories" instead of selected one.

Please help me to solve this problem so the selected category still shown after selecting.

My function is :

<?php
function dropdown_category( ) {
  $categories = Category::newInstance()->toTree();
  $html  = '<select class="sCategory" id="sCategory" name="sCategory">';
  $html .= '<option value="" >' . __('All categories', 'veronika') . '</option>';
  foreach($categories as $c) {
  $sscategories = Category::newInstance()->findSubcategoriesEnabled( $c['pk_i_id'] );
          $html .= '<option class = "bldd" ' . ($c['s_name'] == Params::getParam('sCategory') ? ' selected="selected"' : '') . ' value="' . $c['pk_i_id'] . '">---' . $c['s_name'] . '---</option>';
  foreach( $sscategories as $ss ) {
$html .= '<option ' . ($ss['s_name'] == Params::getParam('sCategory') ? ' selected="selected"' : '') . ' value="' . $ss['pk_i_id'] . '">' . $ss['s_name'] . '</option>';
  }
    }
  $html .= '</select>';
  return $html;
}
?>


@amraneo
Make sure Params::getParam('sCategory') has some values, you are using it in comparison to identify selected category.

@frosticek

I'm newbie so if you can please correct my function to have the selected category displayed in the box.

Thnak you.

@amraneo
It's not possible, I do not know how or where you place it.
Work with this condition:
$c['s_name'] == Params::getParam('sCategory')
I would say it should be at least:
$c['pk_i_id'] == Params::getParam('sCategory')
if you do it on search page, you should use search id:
// define somewhere
$cat = osc_search_category_id();
$cat_id = $cat[0];
// update condition
$c['pk_i_id'] == $cat_id