Cakephp - Checkbox names

Question

Currently, i have succeeded in creating the checkbox. The array which i have setup is as below:

$emailName = $this->User->find('list', array(
    'fields' => array('User.username', 'User.email')
    ));

The output is as follows:

array
  'admin' => string '[email protected]' (length=11)
  'test' => string '[email protected]' (length=14)
  'Floo' => string '[email protected]' (length=16)

I'm trying to make the checkbox shows the username instead of the user email in view.ctp.

I have tried using the following code in view.ctp

<?php echo $this->Form->input('Address_list.['.$emailName['username'].']', array(
    'type' => 'select',
    'multiple' => 'checkbox',
    'options' => $emailName['email']
    )); ?>

However, it seems that this doesn't work. Any ideas?

First, you're not following cake conversions. I'm assuming that "Address_list" is a made-up field. To make this work, simply remove the [ and ] from the field name and that should solve your problem. — Francois Deschenes
– Francois Deschenes, Commented Feb 15, 2012 at 5:59

msw · Accepted Answer · 2012-02-15 07:02:44Z

3

You are not formatting your form field for the checkbox list correctly. Try changing it to this:

echo $this->Form->input('Address_list', array(
    'multiple' => 'checkbox',
    'options' => $emailName, 
));

However, this will return the value of Username based on the selection of Email the user chooses. It creates the form like this:

<label for="Address_list">Address List</label>
<input type="hidden" id="Address_list" value="" name="data[Address_list]"/>
<div class="checkbox"><input type="checkbox" id="AddressListAdmin" value="admin" 
   name="data[Address_list][]"/><label for="AddressListAdmin">[email protected]</label></div>
<div class="checkbox"><input type="checkbox" id="AddressListTest" value="test"
   name="data[Address_list][]"/><label for="AddressListTest">[email protected]</label></div>
<div class="checkbox"><input type="checkbox" id="AddressListFloo" value="Floo" 
   name="data[Address_list][]"/><label for="AddressListFloo">[email protected]</label></div>

edited Feb 15, 2012 at 7:02

msw

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answered Feb 15, 2012 at 6:36

Chuck Burgess

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user1192304 Over a year ago

Yes. this works.. To achieve what i want, i re-code the find method. so that email comes first and the name comes 2nd.

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