[jquery] Populate select box from external file?

5,619 · May 20, 2013

Hi all,

I suspect what I'm trying to achieve is relatively simple to some of you experts but I'm stumped.

I want to create a CSV file with a bunch of addresses. The address will be in one column, and the corresponding google maps link in the column next to it.

I then want to populate an option box with the addresses. Then have the relevant google maps link fill a text box below the address that has been selected.

Does this make sense?

Many thanks,

Alex

9,394 · May 20, 2013

Look up the $.load() in query. That can reference an external file.

Or just $.ajax() and then manipulate the results. Split the string on the comma.

You might be better off with a proper XML file, as it might be easier to grab the nodes. Then you don't have to worry about the NewLines and commas.

Any reason it's a CSV?

5,619 · May 20, 2013

On 20/05/2013 at 17:36, lunamonkey said:

Any reason it's a CSV?

Only to make it easier for the people in the office to edit the value's if and when they change. I'm definitely not a pro with this stuff so my solution may be a bit arse about face.

I'm trying to create a form to stick on the company's web portal. The idea is that the user (in the office) can fill in the fields which then get loaded into a standard email template and then sent to the client in a standard email format.

i.e.

Hi NAME,

Your appointment is booked on DATE at TIME at LOCATION. etc.

It's all manual at the moment so it's a bit of a nightmare. Anything to streamline to operations!

11,990 · May 20, 2013

On 20/05/2013 at 17:22, Axel said:

I want to create a CSV file with a bunch of addresses. The address will be in one column, and the corresponding google maps link in the column next to it.

Really? You really want to do this? :laugh:

Sounds like the perfect place to use a database of some sort, be it XML or SQL of some sort. I think, based on your use case, you'll get a very nice implementation up and running with a CSV list, and then someone will ask for a change and it will be a right pain to fix it.

May 20, 2013

http://plugins.jquery.com/project/csv

May 20, 2013

Instead of CSV or XML you could use JSON, it's very similar to CSV, but a lot easier to work with in javascript.

&lt;!doctype html&gt;
&lt;html&gt;
&lt;head&gt;
&lt;meta charset="utf-8"&gt;
&lt;title&gt;Untitled Document&lt;/title&gt;
&lt;script src="jquery-2.0.0.min.js"></script>;script&gt;
//Global variable with some example json entries
var jsondata = [
	{"address":"Some address 1","link":"http://maps.google.com/1"},
	{"address":"Some address 2","link":"http://maps.google.com/2"}
];

$(function(){
	 //Use Jquery's getJSON, it automaticly parses the data into a usable json object
	 $.getJSON( 'file.json', function( data ){
		  //Put the retreived json in the global variable
		  jsondata = data;

		  var mySelect = $('#address');

		  //Go through each object in the jsondata
		  $.each( jsondata, function( index, row ){
			  //The array index as a value of the option
			  mySelect.append( $( '&lt;option&gt;&lt;/option&gt;' ).val( index ).html( row.address ) );
		   });
	 });

	$('#address').change( function(){
		//Get the array index from the select element and use it with the json array
		$('#link').val( jsondata[ $(this).val() ].link );
	});
});
&lt;/script&gt;
&lt;/head&gt;
&lt;body&gt;
&lt;select id="address" name="test"&gt;&lt;option disabled&gt;Select Address&lt;/option&gt;&lt;/select&gt;
&lt;input type="text" id="link"&gt;
&lt;/body&gt;
&lt;/html&gt;

More info on json: http://json.org/example.html

The contents of file.json should be as followed:

[
	{"address":"Some address 1","link":"http://maps.google.com/1"},
	{"address":"Some address 2","link":"http://maps.google.com/2"},
    {"address":"Some address 3","link":"http://maps.google.com/3"}
]

May 20, 2013

On 20/05/2013 at 17:22, Axel said:

Hi all,

I suspect what I'm trying to achieve is relatively simple to some of you experts but I'm stumped.

I want to create a CSV file with a bunch of addresses. The address will be in one column, and the corresponding google maps link in the column next to it.

I then want to populate an option box with the addresses. Then have the relevant google maps link fill a text box below the address that has been selected.

Does this make sense?

Many thanks,

Alex

Just go to settings, click on file type, look at CSV and then punt a dog in the vagina

5,619 · May 20, 2013

Thanks for all the responses. I really like the JSON idea SinsOfCube. For the time being I've just solved it by loading a bunch of addresses from a .txt file and then just generating a google maps link. Dirty solution I know but it seems to work:

&lt;label&gt;Location
&lt;span class="small"&gt;Please select the location&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;/label&gt;
&lt;select name="location" id="location" &gt;
&lt;?php
$locationlist = file('locationlist.txt', FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES);
foreach ($locationlist as $value) {
echo "\n";
echo '&lt;option value="'.$value.'"&gt;'.$value.'&lt;/option&gt;';
echo "\n";
}
?&gt;
&lt;/select&gt;

$maplink = 'https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q='.str_replace, "+", $location);

This:

10 Downing Street, London, SW1A 2AA

Becomes:

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?qA&hl=en&=10+Downing+Street,+London,+SW1A+2AA

If these methods end up failing me then I suppose I'll have to resort to killerninja's advice and punt a dog in the vagina.

9,394 · May 20, 2013

Sins has totally just built what I was going to build after I got back from the tip. (But I was going to go longhand with CSV.)

Does the quick-select statement function as expected? Isn't this too shallow to find the correct item?

jsondata[ $(this).val() ].link

Doesn't that expect a one dimensional object? Where-as yours is two objects deep. (I haven't tried it...)

Anyway, dinner time.

May 20, 2013

jsondata is an array which holds the objects containing the address and google maps link properties. So jsondata[ x ] returns an object and with the ".propertyName" after it, you get the property value, which is the 2nd dimension. You could also write it as "jsondata[ $(this).val() ][ 'link' ]", which makes it more noticable that it has 2 dimensions.

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