Newbie so I am probably doing something wrong. I downloaded the form helper to create and editing form, still not sure I did the right thing as I couldnt really find out what people used to create entry forms. Form helper seems pretty simple have everything working except the categories to work.
I have this in my html
<tr class="row0">
<td valign="top" class="light">Categories</td>
<td valign="top"><select multiple name="category[]">
{exp:form_helper:categories entry_id="{entry_id}" parent_id="1"}
<option value="{cat_id}" {selected}>{cat_name}</option>
{/exp:form_helper:categories}
</select></td>
</tr>
and it returns this
<tr class="row0">
<td valign="top" class="light">Categories</td>
<td valign="top"><select multiple name="category[]">
</select></td>
</tr>
but it is gathering categories as the one below is retrieving “pen and ink”
<tr class="row1">
<td valign="top" class="light">Categories</td>
<td valign="top"><input type="checkbox" name="category[]" value="20" />pen and ink<br /></td>
</tr>
many thanks if someone can help me out, ther arent many posts here so maybe I am barking up the wrong tree.
Adam
