Select Box Form Element
To add the select element to the form you need to create a new node and add it to the <fields> node of the configuration file, with the <frontend_type>select</frontend_type>
and : <source_model>adminhtml/system_config_source_yesno</source_model>
To open a node for the new element, decide how you’d like that element to be called… Let’s just call it select_example.
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<select_example>*** the rest of the code would go here ***</select_example> |
After you’ve created a node for select_example, you can add it’s label and form element type. To have the selext_example form element select box, you would need to add the <frontend_type>select</frontend_type> in the selext_example node,like so:
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<select_example> <frontend_type>select</frontend_type> <source_model>adminhtml/system_config_source_yesno</source_model></select_example> |
Assuming that you’d like to have the label explaining the user what he needs to enter, you’d want to add the label to the select_example node, like so:
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<select_example> <label>Example of the select box </label> <frontend_type>select</frontend_type> <source_model>adminhtml/system_config_source_yesno</source_model></select_example> |
And optionally, if you’d like this form field to be required, you’d want to add the required option to the selext_example node like so:
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<select_example> <label>Here's an example of the select box </label> <frontend_type>select</frontend_type> <source_model>adminhtml/system_config_source_yesno</source_model> <required>true</required></select_example> |
And it would produce this:
The code in the example will produce the simplest Yes/No select box values. We found that this could be useful if you’d like to provide optional customization options to the users.
