Title: options array for select field
Last modified: January 9, 2020

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# options array for select field

 *  Resolved [sanitar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sanitar/)
 * (@sanitar)
 * [6 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/options-array-for-select-field/)
 * hi!it’s some going wrong with “adverts_field_select” field
    documentation say
   that in “options” i must type like this
 *     ```
           array(
               array( "value" => 1, "text" => "One", "depth" => 1 ),
               array( "value" => 5, "text" => "Five", "depth" => 1 ),
               // more options here ...
           );
       ```
   
 * but i have dinamical array
 *     ```
       foreach ($countries_array as $val)
        {
         $prepeared_countries[]= array( "value" => "1", "text" => "1");
        }
       ```
   
 * ,for example let it be like this
    `$a=array(array( "value" => "1", "text" => "
   One"));`
 * when i place a variable into the option
 *     ```
       $form["field"][] = array(
                   "name" => "country",
                   "type" => "adverts_field_select",
                   "order" => 4,
                   "label" => __("Category", "adverts"),
                   "max_choices" => 1,
                   "options" =>     $a,
                   "validator" => array(
                       array( 
                           "name" => "max_choices",
                           "params" => array( "max_choices" => 1 )
                       )
                   )
               );
       ```
   
 * it’s give me the error
 * > Fatal error: You need to specify options source for field [country]. in /home/****/*******.
   > com/www/wp-content/plugins/wpadverts/includes/functions.php on line 1365
 * if i doing like this
 *     ```
       $form["field"][] = array(
                   "name" => "country",
                   "type" => "adverts_field_select",
                   "order" => 4,
                   "label" => __("Category", "adverts"),
                   "max_choices" => 1,
                   "options" =>     array($a),
                   "validator" => array(
                       array( 
                           "name" => "max_choices",
                           "params" => array( "max_choices" => 1 )
                       )
                   )
               );
       ```
   
 * i’ll get just empty select field,without options
    but if i type just like this
 *     ```
       $form["field"][] = array(
                   "name" => "country",
                   "type" => "adverts_field_select",
                   "order" => 4,
                   "label" => __("Category", "adverts"),
                   "max_choices" => 1,
                   "options" =>     array(    array( "value" => 1, "text" => "One", "depth" => 1 ),
           array( "value" => 5, "text" => "Five", "depth" => 1 ),),
                   "validator" => array(
                       array( 
                           "name" => "max_choices",
                           "params" => array( "max_choices" => 1 )
                       )
                   )
               );
       ```
   
 * it give me the two options in select field.what is going wrong with array in 
   variable?

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 *  Plugin Author [Greg Winiarski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gwin/)
 * (@gwin)
 * [6 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/options-array-for-select-field/#post-12311244)
 * Hi,
    hmm i am not sure, i created a code snippet from your code and used it on
   my dev site, the code adds a Country field with two options so the variable $
   a seems fine.
 * The snippet is
 *     ```
       add_filter( "adverts_form_load", function( $form ) {
           if( $form["name"] != "advert" ) {
               return $form;
           }
   
           $a = array( 
               array( "value" => "1", "text" => "One"),
               array( "value" => "2", "text" => "Two") 
           );
   
           $form["field"][] = array(
               "name" => "country",
               "type" => "adverts_field_select",
               "order" => 4,
               "label" => __("Category", "adverts"),
               "max_choices" => 1,
               "options" =>     $a,
               "validator" => array(
                   array( 
                       "name" => "max_choices",
                       "params" => array( "max_choices" => 1 )
                   )
               )
           );
           return $form;
       } );
       ```
   
 * The error you are seeing is triggered only if the field does not have the “options”
   or “options_callback” params are either not set or are set to null.
 * Can you maybe paste your whole filter and function it will be easier to tell 
   then?
 *  Thread Starter [sanitar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sanitar/)
 * (@sanitar)
 * [6 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/options-array-for-select-field/#post-12312138)
 * omg,i saw what i doing wrong:the problem was just in declaration out of the function.
   when i took it inside-it’s works fine.i just lost focus about scope of variables.
   thanks,now it’s all fine.

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