Thank you AD and keymaster, this helps me out! @AD: Can you tell me, why I should not use checkboxes instead of multiple selects? Ok, ok, maybe the mentioned case (movies) is not the best, but I think there are other cases, where this could make sense: online questionnaire to name an example.
Thanks, Christoph On 12 Jul., 08:48, AD7six <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jul 11, 8:02 pm, Preloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hello AD, > > > yes, that's indeed described very well in the manual (Model-section), > > BUT: > > > what if I wanted a group checkboxes instead of the multiselect? > > > The resulting array should/could be something like > > > array( > > [Movie] => array( > > [Movie] => array( > > [0] => 2, > > [1] => 4, > > [2] => 5, > > ) > > ) > > ) > > > Checkbox creation is clear: loop through the movies (values come from > > generateList) and fill the options-array of the FormHelper::input > > method. > > > But what should I pass to the $fieldName param $form->input in order > > to get > > > ... name="data[Movie][Movie][<idx_of_array>]" ... > > > in HTML. > > Hi Christoph, > > I'm not sure you should/need to. There is an article on the bakery > about multiple checkboxes, although it's 1.1 maybe it still has some > useful info. > > hth, > > AD --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
