Re: Determining submitted checkbox values in QuickForm

On 5/18/05, Skyler Slade <jsslade@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > I've run into some confusion on handling checkbox elements in > QuickForm. It is rather easy to create a list of checkboxes by using a > standard loop around an SQL query, however during the form processing, > I'm having difficulty determining which checkboxes were checked. > > Using the standard QuickForm 'checkbox' element, the checkbox values > are always 1, and they cannot be changed. If one was to write a form > such as this using HTML (instead of using the QuickForm class) finding > out which checkboxes were checked would be relatively easy. If I were > to write it in HTML, all of the checkboxes name's would be an array, > such as array[], and the values for the checkboxes would be whatever I > would give them. After form submission and during processing, I simply > create a loop around $_POST['array'], and foreach value in array[], I > do _something_ with the value. This makes it very easy to insert only > selected items into a database. > > As valuable a feature as this would be (the ability to change checkbox > values), it does not appear to be implemented so far as I can tell. In > this case, how would one determine and parse which checkboxes were > checked? As is, if I loop through the array of the checkbox names > (using array[] for their names when creating them) I receive multiple > values of 1, which isn't very helpful for determining which checkbox > they belong to. There is a method called "getChecked()," would this be > used? I realize that 'advcheckbox' may be able to help with this, but > it seems too much like a complex solution to a simple problem, as I'd > rather not introduce JavaScript into this form for various reasons. Method1: put a key in the array in the name. for($i = 0; $i < 5; ++$i) { $form->addElement('checkbox', 'array[',$i.']'); } foreach ($_REQUEST['array'] as $num => $value) { if ($value) { echo $num.' checked<br/>'; } } And I'm pretty sure you *can* set values. Have you tried setValue() on the checkbox? $check->updateAttributes(array('value' => $value))? $form->setDefaults()? -- Justin Patrin