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New Thread from Category doesn't preselect Category from dropdown #375
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This isn't a feature request per se, as it's the expected functionality.
Go to https://forum.phalconphp.com/category/21/beginners for example (as it has the most threads).
Then click "Start a Discussion" on that page, there's a "Category" dropdown to choose the category again. Expected behavior is it should pre-select "Beginners" in this case. I'd like to suggest use the referrer to determine what to highlight. This JavaScript has been tested thoroughly and would get the job done:
try{
(function(){
var r = document.referrer, m = r.match(/\/category\/(\d+)\/([^\/]+)/), e = document.getElementById("categoryId"), o = e.options;
for(var i=0;i<o.length;i++)if(o[i].value==m[1] && o[i].text.match(/(\w+)/)[1].toLowerCase() == m[2].match(/(\w+)/)[1].toLowerCase())e.selectedIndex=i;
})();
}catch(E){}
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Jurigag commentedon May 8, 2017
Good idea, i like this. Could maybe avoid somehow usage of js and handle it in php.
Ultimater commentedon May 8, 2017
If we're aiming at a PHP solution, we could read
$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']and parse it using a similar regular expression, then add aselectedto the option to select. We could also change the navigation a bit and ditch the refe(r)rer altogether by creating a different create new topic link which we can extract the category from.