[Solar-talk] Solar Form help

[Paul M Jones]

Hi Micahel, sorry for the late reply.


On Nov 16, 2006, at 2:40 PM, Michael Soule wrote:

> Is there an example somewhere of using an array of checkboxes with  
> Solar Form?
>
> I want my checkboxes to render as:
>
> <input type="checkbox" name="beers[]" value="Bud" />
> <input type="checkbox" name="beers[]" value="Coors" />
> <input type="checkbox" name="beers[]" value="Heineken" />
> <input type="checkbox" name="beers[]" value="Kirin" />
>
> But I'm not sure how to accomplish this with the FormDescriptor array.

The issue is the naming; if they all have the same name, then the  
Form object won't be able to differentiate them from each other.  So  
although it's valid to use the [] naming syntax for HTML, and PHP  
itself will recognize it, the Solar_Form object can only handle one  
[] at a time.

The solution, ugly though it may be, is to not use the [] sequential  
shorthand, and actually assign keys to the FormDescriptor names.  E.g.:

<input type="checkbox" name="beers[0]" value="Bud" />
<input type="checkbox" name="beers[1]" value="Coors" />
<input type="checkbox" name="beers[2]" value="Heineken" />
<input type="checkbox" name="beers[3]" value="Kirin" />

Does that help at all?


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