Forums / Setup & design / 3.1 -> check box in a form
laurent le cadet
Thursday 26 June 2003 9:02:16 am
....someone could help me ? I can't find anything about this.
I'm trying to display a checkbox in a form but I don't have the correct syntax.What I use : {attribute_view_gui attribute=$node.data_map.myidentifier}
But I have only YES or NO if the box is checked or not when I crate the form.
May I have the correct syntax or more generally a tutorial for the different objects ?
Bård Farstad
Tuesday 01 July 2003 1:27:23 am
You have the correct syntax. However the default template for boolean (checkbox) is to display yes or no. Here is the code for the template:
{$attribute.data_int|choose("No"|i18n("design/standard/content/datatype"),"Yes"|i18n("design/standard/content/datatype"))}
To get the integer value you can do:{$node.data_map.myidentifier.data_int}
If you want to display a section you can do:
{section show=$node.data_map.myidentifier.data_int} This will be shown if the checkbox i checked.{/section}
--bård
Documentation: http://ez.no/doc
Tuesday 01 July 2003 1:41:08 am
Thanks Bård for this new step.
So now it display the integrer 0 or 1 but what I want is a "real" checkbox whose result can be send by mail with the other elements of the form. Any suggestion ?Thanks
Friday 04 July 2003 6:20:39 am
To get checkboxes on information collectors you would need to use strings at this time. If you just change the template of the attribute you would like to be shown as a checkbox to use <input type="checkbox" .../> instead of using <input type="text" .. /> you will be able to fetch the input from the text box and it will be stored in the database.
Checkboxes/boolean do not support information collection yet, so you have to use this workaround.
Tuesday 08 July 2003 6:19:46 am
Bård,
I'm not sure to understand what you explained.But I tryed another way :
{let myattribute=$node.data_map.myidentifier}
<input type="checkbox" name="ContentObjectAttribute_ezstring_data_text_{$myattribute.id}" value="{$:item}">{$:item}</input>
{/let}
Still the same result. For sure it print a checkbox, but I still can't recieve the information if it has been check or not. Nothing.
I'll be very happy to have light on it.
Laurent
Graham Tillotson
Thursday 28 August 2003 12:28:00 pm
In response to Bard's suggestion to change the attribute template, where is this done? In which file?
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Paul Forsyth
Friday 29 August 2003 12:15:50 am
Try this out. In the file:
kernel/classes/datatypes/ezboolean/ezbooleantype.php
We added this function, which turns the datatype ezboolean (a checkbox) into an information collector.
function isInformationCollector() { ----return true;}
This works for us in 3.1. 3.2 has this functionality built in.
Paul
Friday 29 August 2003 7:36:10 am
I just about fell out of my chair from joy -- thanks! Works perfectly.
Tuesday 09 September 2003 7:08:56 am
Unfortunatly it's rather different in my case. 2 round eyes...what are they talking about...
I tried this new method :
function isInformationCollector() { return true;}
...whithout any results.
I turn paranoïd "Forms don't like me".
May I have some help or a link to a tutorial ?