activeDropdownList() problem?

[DiogoRNeves]

Hi there! First of all I'd like to thank you for the extension, really well done.

I'm having some trouble with the active Dropdown List and I think you can probably help me out.

So I have a CActiveForm and a $user model. When I'm on the create action for that model, the 'playerLevel' attribute in my view as a drop down list. The view code is as follows:

View PHP

``` php
        labelEx($user, 'playerLevel'); ?>
         'really really high', '2' => 'really really low'), array(
            'placeholder' => 'This is a placeholder',
            'select2Options' => array(
                'allowClear' => true,
            ),
        ));
        error($user, 'playerLevel'); ?>
```

This generates:

HTML

``` html

 really really high
 really really low

```

jQuery

``` javascript
$('#User_playerLevel').select2({'placeholder':'This is a placeholder','allowClear':true});
```

My problem is that, since it is a create action, the model's attributes are empty and so, I'd expect "This is a placeholder" to show up straight away, but it doesn't. Instead, the first value on the list is automatically selected. Also, I can't clear the value.

Edit: If I change it to an activeMultiSelect() it behaves perfectly.

Any hints?

Thanks in advance for your time!

[tonybolzan]

I understand ...
I checked the operation of the placeholder Select2

And I noticed the need for a <option> empty.
See http://jsfiddle.net/9ednLacq/

I will adjust the code.
Thank you.

[DiogoRNeves]

Wow, that's perfect (that didn't even occur to me, well spotted). I'll clone it as soon as you commit it.

Thanks for the quick answer and keep up the good work!

[DiogoRNeves]

Tony, calling it this way fixes it:

PHP
echo Select2::activeDropDownList($user, 'playerLevel', array('1' => 'really really high', '2' => 'really really low'), array(
            'placeholder' => 'This is a placeholder',
            'empty' => '',
            'select2Options' => array(
                'allowClear' => true,
            ),
        ));