Loving the form helper plugin. Really useful. I discovered, though, as others have, that the “categories” function is broken, because now you can have more than one category group assigned to a weblog. I really needed this function, so I’ve tweaked it.

It now has a “category group” parameter, so you can restrict it to displaying only certain categories from your list. (I’m afraid I didn’t add support for “not 4” or similar, but you can specify multiple categories with a | as usual).

I also modified the function so if you specify a category_group but not an entry_id, it just lists all the categories in that group - for when you only want to display certain category groups in your SAEF (ENTRY form, as opposed to EDIT).

I’ve provided the modified function here, without warranty - hopefully the Solspace guys may pick this up, tidy it up and add it to the next release. Any comments or queries, do let me know…

Thank you very much Paul

We may or may not have very big plans for Form Helper, but we’re waiting on the release of EE 2.0

Quite understand, Kelsey. I have a few plans, and I’m also waiting on 2.0. Hope this fix helps someone though anyway!

This fix worked great!  Thank you!!

No probs, glad this has helped someone!

How do I use this function? do I replace the function in the original file or add this one.

UPDATED

I figured it out, it’s a replacement for the function in the original formhelper pi.

When used with this code below (found on this forum as well), I am able to successfully use an edit form
that shows a dropdown of categories with the previously chosen category selected.

This would be just simple now after the tweak, I used the form helper tags below and it worked !

{exp:form_helper:categories entry_id=”{entry_id}” category_group=“6”}<input type=“checkbox” name=“category[]”  {checked} />{cat_name}
{/exp:form_helper:categories}

Works great!  Much thanks Paul!

this fix is excellent!
thanks!

stefan