Is there a way of implementing something like this into Freeform? -

http://c82.net/article.php?ID=25

It beats the pants off multi select lists!

Interesting idea, have you actually tried that? I mean, it makes use of standard checkboxes (and a bit of CSS), and Freeform supports that just fine. If it does not work, feel free to make the necessary feature request.

I haven’t tried it as I wasn’t sure if Freeform could handle multiple checkboxes and I also wasn’t sure how to write out the code.

There is an example for selects using [] but nothing about checkboxes!

Hm, I think I’ve used checkboxes with FreeForm before. Let me check.

Yes, it works. Quite straightfoward, really:

Will result in an empty value when unchecked, “on” when checked.

Damn, it’s funny how these things seem so obvious when they are spelled out!!

Well, the docs are still somewhat lacking in that regard, I grant you that. Anyway, let us know how it goes, this sounds exciting.

I will do!

How about submitting multiple values to the same field via a checkbox list, i.e. all checkboxes have the same name:

<label for="interests">What are you interested in:</label>
Football: <input type="checkbox" name="interests" value="Football" />
Movies: <input type="checkbox" name="interests" value="Movies" />
Music: <input type="checkbox" name="interests" value="Music" />

If all are checked only the last value is entered (Music)

What about checkboxes that all go to the same field? Ingmar, your example show two different names - what if you want to store more than one value in a field? Is that possible?

If you want all checkbox values to be captured, turn the fields into an array name="interests[]". Freeform will know what to do.

mk

That’s what I thought, thanks for confirming.

Is there any way to display all the values of a checkbox array, comma separated, or some other separator?

Thanks!

AJP - 16 July 2008 02:16 PM

Is there any way to display all the values of a checkbox array, comma separated, or some other separator?

If you’re referring to a notification template, it seems to create a linebreak by default.
As for listing on the front end… there doesn’t seem to be a way to create a seperation.

I’ll add this as a feature request though

I just posted about this in another thread here somewhere… and my post was referring to the notification template. Not very useful “notification” when a number of things are all strung together with only spaces. I’m not seeing any linebreaks on the notification template as it stands now - the contents of the field are one long string. Do the line breaks only work when you’re using the {all_custom_fields} tag? I’m breaking out my notification template into individual fields with some HTML formatting.

I may look at doing a hack of some kind if there isn’t an available hook. Thanks.

ADD: Maybe the “freeform_module_insert_begin” hook could be used to take fields with a certain type(?) or short name suffix (?) and loop through, adding a pipe or a comma or something?