J1.5 talk:Adding a multiple item select list parameter type

I tried this code in my application and it almost worked but not exactly.

When I selected more than one item, the parameter was saved in the database as: p1|p2 rather than p1,p2 as would be the normal case of html.

If I then go to the database and change it manually to p1,p2; then it displayed correctly in the administrator..

Any ideas for a fix?????????????????

Line with $value is unnecessary - when you select more than one items then it returns array in array. I've removed this line from the source code - now it should works fine.

I needed this

   function fetchElement($name, $value, &$node, $control_name) {
   
       (...)
   
       // value string to array
       $value = explode(',', $value);
   
       return JHTML::_('select.genericlist', $options, $ctrl, $attribs, 'value', 'text', $value, $control_name . $name);
   }

multiple "categories"

in joomla 1.6 and above, the category param allows to choice only one selection.

if you need more than one choice, how can to do it?

yes, you can do it with list parameter that allows that but the list content... ???