Zend Select Element not working - zend-framework

Question

I have the following Zend_Debug value for Albums and Category in my IndexController:
array(4) {
["id"] => string(1) "1"
["artist"] => string(18) "Paula Abdul Rashid"
["title"] => string(13) "Sunny Side Up"
["category_id"] => NULL
}
array(10) {
[0] => array(2) {
["id"] => string(1) "1"
["name"] => string(7) "Country"
}
[1] => array(2) {
["id"] => string(1) "2"
["name"] => string(7) "Hip Hop"
}
[2] => array(2) {
["id"] => string(1) "3"
["name"] => string(4) "Jazz"
}
[3] => array(2) {
["id"] => string(1) "4"
["name"] => string(14) "Latin American"
}
[4] => array(2) {
["id"] => string(1) "5"
["name"] => string(3) "Pop"
}
[5] => array(2) {
["id"] => string(1) "6"
["name"] => string(3) "R&B"
}
[6] => array(2) {
["id"] => string(1) "7"
["name"] => string(4) "Rock"
}
[7] => array(2) {
["id"] => string(1) "8"
["name"] => string(3) "Ska"
}
[8] => array(2) {
["id"] => string(1) "9"
["name"] => string(5) "Asian"
}
[9] => array(2) {
["id"] => string(2) "10"
["name"] => string(11) "Modern folk"
}
}
And in my Form_Albums I have the following form elements :
$id = new Zend_Form_Element_Hidden('id');
$id->addFilter('Int');
$artist = new Zend_Form_Element_Text('artist');
$artist->setLabel('Artist')
->setRequired(true)
->addFilter('StripTags')
->addFilter('StringTrim')
->addValidator('NotEmpty');
$title = new Zend_Form_Element_Text('title');
$title->setLabel('Title')
->setRequired(true)
->addFilter('StripTags')
->addFilter('StringTrim')
->addValidator('NotEmpty');
$category = new Zend_Form_Element_Select('category');
$category->setLabel('Category')
->setRequired(true);
$submit = new Zend_Form_Element_Submit('submit');
$submit->setAttrib('id', 'submitbutton');
$this->addElements(array($id, $artist, $title, $category, $submit));
I couldn't get the dropdownlist display using the Zend_Form_Element_Select..
Update for Solutions:
I got it working now by using the following:
$category = new Application_Model_DbTable_Category();
$category_list = $category->findForSelect();
foreach ($category_list as $cat) { //$data is your array variable
Zend_Debug::dump($cat['id']." :: ". $cat['name']);
$form->category->addMultiOption($cat['id'], $cat['name']);
}
Thanks to Rishi for opening the idea.

Answer 1

Something like this in your controller might help you out..
$form = new Form_Albums();
foreach ($data as $c) { //$data is your array variable
$form->category->addMultiOption($c->id, $c->name);
}