Checkboxes

Mark Huot

587 posts

18 years ago

Mark Huot

you should be able to use the separator=”” attribute and use whatever you need.

kstatham

52 posts

18 years ago

kstatham

Has anybody had any success getting this to work in a standalone EDIT form?

Thanks in advance, Ken

Brian M.

529 posts

18 years ago

Brian M.

Yep it works pretty much right ‘out of the box’ in edit SAEFs.

kstatham

52 posts

18 years ago

kstatham

Thanks Brian. I can’t seem to get the values to display in the edit form. Here is what I have for the ENTRY form, which works fine:

<b>Open to</b>

<input type="checkbox" name="field_id_350[]" value="Public" />Public

<input type="checkbox" name="field_id_350[]" value="Practitioners" />Practitioners

<input type="checkbox" name="field_id_350[]" value="Trainees" />Trainees

The EDIT version doesn’t work. I’ve tried:

<b>Open to</b>

<input type="checkbox" name="field_id_350[]" id="public" value="field_id_350[]" />Public

<input type="checkbox" name="field_id_350[]" id="practitioners" value="field_id_350[]" />Practitioners

<input type="checkbox" name="field_id_350[]" id="trainees" value="field_id_350[]" />Trainees

and

<b>Open to</b>

<input type="checkbox" name="field_id_350[]" id="public" value="Public" {checked} />Public

<input type="checkbox" name="field_id_350[]" id="practitioners" value="Practitioners" {checked} />Practitioners

<input type="checkbox" name="field_id_350[]" id="trainees" value="Trainees" {checked} />Trainees

and

<b>Open to</b>

<input type="checkbox" name="field_id_350[]" id="field_id_350[]" value="field_id_350[]" {checked} />Public

<input type="checkbox" name="field_id_350[]" id="field_id_350[]" value="field_id_350[]" {checked} />Practitioners

<input type="checkbox" name="field_id_350[]" id="field_id_350[]" value="field_id_350[]" {checked} />Trainees

In each case, all checkboxes in the EDIT form are blank.

Any help?

Thanks again, Ken

Brian M.

529 posts

18 years ago

Brian M.

Ken - you’ll need to use SolSpace’s Form Helper plugin, and then you’ll end up with code like so for your values:

value="{exp:form_helper:field_parser}{field_id_40}{/exp:form_helper:field_parser}"

EDIT: or you can do it using PHP and the $DB class if you prefer…

kstatham

52 posts

18 years ago

kstatham

Brian, your quick responses are much appreciated! A couple more samples of code I’ve tried that are not working:

<b>Open to</b>

<input type="checkbox" name="field_id_350[]" value="{exp:form_helper:field_parser}{field_id_350}{/exp:form_helper:field_parser}" />Public

<input type="checkbox" name="field_id_350[]" value="{exp:form_helper:field_parser}{field_id_350}{/exp:form_helper:field_parser}" />Practitioners

<input type="checkbox" name="field_id_350[]" value="{exp:form_helper:field_parser}{field_id_350}{/exp:form_helper:field_parser}" />Trainees

and this one, after reading the form helper docs again, using field_grabber instead of field_parser, since my understanding is that the field_parser is to remove or grab the formatting (XHTML, BR or None), and the checkbox does not have field formatting:

<b>Open to</b>

<input type="checkbox" name="field_id_350[]" value="{exp:form_helper:field_grabber field_name='field_id_350'} value="{field_id_350}" />Public

<input type="checkbox" name="field_id_350[]" value="{exp:form_helper:field_grabber field_name='field_id_350'} value="{field_id_350}" />Practitioners

<input type="checkbox" name="field_id_350[]" value="{exp:form_helper:field_grabber field_name='field_id_350'} value="{field_id_350}" />Trainees

I also tried a version of the above with both field_grabber and field_parser, per the Solspace docs, with no luck.

(I don’t have the coding experience to try the PHP and $DB class method you mentioned) :red:

Brian M.

529 posts

18 years ago

Brian M.

Hmm - can you post (or attach) the entire form code?

kstatham

52 posts

18 years ago

kstatham

No problem…. checkboxes start around line 84….

Brian M.

529 posts

18 years ago

Brian M.

I just realized I’m using PHP to do it in my templates (using Field Helper for other forms not using checkboxes). I’m not sure if this will work, but try this:

<input type="checkbox" name="field_id_350[]" value="Public" {exp:form_helper:field_parser}{if field_id_350 == 'Public'} checked="checked"{/if}{/exp:form_helper:field_parser} />Public

If that doesn’t work I’ll help you set it up using PHP.

kstatham

52 posts

about 18 years ago

kstatham

Hi Mark,

Apologies for the delay getting back. I’ve been occupied with another project.

I tried the code you sent above… still didn’t work.

I’m thinking I should rethink the way we’re setting this up, but I’m interested in seeing how you would do it with PHP as well.

Thanks for all the help, Ken

Mikee Bee

179 posts

17 years ago

Mikee Bee

Hi all, I’m not sure that I’m using this properly…

I’m hoping to provide 6 checkboxes in the publish form in a custom field called {stockists-offers}

The options are:

Fabrics Wallpapers Paints Paint-Sample-Pots Trimmings Furniture

I want a list item containing an icon to appear IF the box has been ticked so I produced this code, it seems to work for Fabrics (the first item) but nothing else :(

<ul class="offers">
        {if stockist-offers == "Fabrics"}<li class="fabric-icon">Fabrics</li>{/if}
        {if stockist-offers == "Wallpapers"}<li class="wallpaper-icon">Wallpapers</li>{/if}
        {if stockist-offers == "Paints"}<li class="paint-icon">Paints</li>{/if}
        {if stockist-offers == "Paint-Sample-Pots"}<li class="sample-icon">Paint Sample Pots</li>{/if}
        {if stockist-offers == "Trimmings"}<li class="trimmings-icon">Trimmings</li>{/if}
        {if stockist-offers == "Furniture"}<li class="furniture-icon">Furniture</li>{/if}
    </ul>

Mark Huot

587 posts

17 years ago

Mark Huot

That’s because in the database it’s stored as:

Fabrics
Wallpapers

So if you select more than one item it won’t work because “Wallpapers != Fabrics\nWallpapers”

You could use PHP on output to get around this:

<?php
$stocklist_offers = <<<EOT
{stocklist-offers}
EOT;
?>
<ul class="offers">
    <?php if(strpos($stockist_offers, "Fabrics")): ?><li class="fabric-icon">Fabrics</li><?php endif; ?>
    <?php if(strpos($stockist_offers, "Wallpapers")): ?><li class="wallpaper-icon">Wallpapers</li><?php endif; ?>
    <?php if(strpos($stockist_offers, "Paints")): ?><li class="paint-icon">Paints</li><?php endif; ?>
    <?php if(strpos($stockist_offers, "Paint-Sample-Pots")): ?><li class="sample-icon">Paint Sample Pots</li><?php endif; ?>
    <?php if(strpos($stockist_offers, "Trimmings")): ?><li class="trimmings-icon">Trimmings</li><?php endif; ?>
    <?php if(strpos($stockist_offers, "Furniture")): ?><li class="furniture-icon">Furniture</li><?php endif; ?>
</ul>

That’s sort of off the top of my head so there may be a syntax error in there or a typo, but it should get you started

Mikee Bee

179 posts

17 years ago

Mikee Bee

Thanks Mark, I think there may be an error somewhere as the page is coming up blank. Unfortunately I don’t know any php so I’m stumped as what the problem could be :/

Here is most of the page code if you can see anything quickly wrong with it?

<div id="content">

<h2>{page}</h2>


<h3 id="sub-heading">{countries}</h3>

{exp:weblog:category_heading weblog="{section}"}
<h4>{category_name}</h4>
{/exp:weblog:category_heading}

<ol id="stockistslist">

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="stockists_{segment_3}" paginate="bottom" limit="9"}


<li>
<dl>
<dt>{title}</dt>
<dd>{stockist-address}</dd>
<dd><strong>Tel: </strong>{stockist-phone}</dd>
<dd><strong>Fax: </strong>{stockist-fax}</dd>
<dd><strong>Email: </strong>{stockist-email}</dd>
<dd><strong>Website: </strong>{if stockist-website}<a href="http://{exp:html_strip}{stockist-website}{/exp:html_strip}" title="Visit {title}'s website">Click here</a> {if:else} N/A{/if}</dd>
<dd><strong>Map and Directions: </strong><a href="#">Click here</a></dd>
<dd>

    <?php
    $stocklist_offers = <<<EOT
    {stocklist-offers}
    EOT;?>
    <ul class="offers">
        <?php if(strpos($stockist_offers, "Fabrics")): ?><li class="fabric-icon">Fabrics</li><?php endif; ?>
        <?php if(strpos($stockist_offers, "Wallpapers")): ?><li class="wallpaper-icon">Wallpapers</li><?php endif; ?>
        <?php if(strpos($stockist_offers, "Paints")): ?><li class="paint-icon">Paints</li><?php endif; ?>
        <?php if(strpos($stockist_offers, "Paint-Sample-Pots")): ?><li class="sample-icon">Paint Sample Pots</li><?php endif; ?>
        <?php if(strpos($stockist_offers, "Trimmings")): ?><li class="trimmings-icon">Trimmings</li><?php endif; ?>
        <?php if(strpos($stockist_offers, "Furniture")): ?><li class="furniture-icon">Furniture</li><?php endif; ?>
    </ul>
    
</dd>
</dl>
</li>


{/exp:weblog:entries}

</ol>


</div><!-- content -->


</div><!-- wrapper -->

{embed="includes/footer"}

Mark Huot

587 posts

17 years ago

Mark Huot

A couple of reasons, I had and error in my heredoc syntax (http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php#language.types.string.syntax.heredoc) and you need to make sure that the EOT; is the only thing on the line, meaning no spaces before it.

This should work:

<?php
    $stocklist_offers = <<<EOT
    {stocklist-offers}
EOT;

?>

Mikee Bee

179 posts

17 years ago

Mikee Bee

Hmm the syntax colouring in TextMate seems to be happier now and the page is appearing but no ‘checked’ fields are appearing??

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