oscommerce drop-down selection box hack

I was having a heck of a time today dealing with drop-down product option selections in oscommerce. I wrote a hack to catalog/includes/functions/html_output.php in the function definition for tep_draw_pull_down_menu I changed the following text:

    for ($i=0, $n=sizeof($values); $i<$n; $i++) {
      $field .= '    
      if ($default == $values[$i]['id']) {
        $field .= ' SELECTED';
      }

      $field .= '>' . tep_output_string($values[$i]['text'], 
          array('"' => '"', '\'' => ''', 
          '<' => '<', '>' => '>')) . '';
    }
    

To the following:

	// Criss - XES - altered the following:
	
	
	foreach ($values as $i=>$value) {
			$xes_values[$value['id']] = $value['text'];	}
	asort($xes_values);
	
	    foreach ($xes_values as $xes_id=>$xes_text) {
      $field .= '    
      if ($default == $xes_id) {
        $field .= ' SELECTED';
      }

      $field .= '>' . tep_output_string($xes_text, 
         array('"' => '"', '\'' => ''', 
         '<' => '<', '>' => '>')) . '';
    }

Now when I can have product option "A - 9oz" and "B - 30oz" and count on option A being the default selected item if the customer doesn't change the option. Try as I might "B - 20oz" was the option selected. Whether I re-added the options in a different order, whether I took out A B C D, etc. If it were sorted in reverse order, I could have left out A B C D, because 9oz should sort to the top of the list. This wasn't the issue. I have no idea why the program was so stubborn about sort order, but now all drop-downs, like it or not, throughout the site, will be sorted alphabetically!

I hope people find this code snippet helpful!