I figured out the problem with the custom checkboxes theme function and
drupal_render. Basically, drupal_render is assuming that I will render all of
the children checkboxes in my custom theme function, so it doesn't do it
itself. I just took the code from drupal_render and modified it slightly, and
my children checkboxes are rendered:
// Code from drupal_render()
$children = element_children($element);
foreach ($children as $key) {
$content .= drupal_render($element[$key]);
}
$element['#children'] = $content;
However, now I have another problem, and that is that the #title and
#description values are being displayed twice. Stepping through the code shows
that two theme functions are being called twice: theme_checkboxes in form.inc
AND my custom theme checkboxes function. What I don't understand is why, since
I explicitly defined a theme function for my checkboxes form element in my form
definition:
$form['site_sections'] = array(
'#type' => 'checkboxes',
'#title' => t('Site Sections'),
'#options' => $options,
'#description' => t('Test description'),
'#theme' => 'section_permissions_checkboxes',
);
This is even further demonstrated by looking at the rendered HTML for the form.
<form id="section-permissions-admin-form" method="post" accept-charset="UTF-8"
action="/user/6/section_permissions">
<div>
<div class="form-item">
<label>Site Sections: </label>
<div class="form-checkboxes">
<div class="form-item">
<label>Site Sections: </label>
<div class="form-checkboxes">
<div id="edit-site-sections-917-wrapper" class="form-item">
</div>
<div id="edit-site-sections-918-wrapper" class="form-item">
</div>
<div id="edit-site-sections-923-wrapper" class="form-item">
</div>
<div id="edit-site-sections-924-wrapper" class="form-item">
</div>
<div id="edit-site-sections-925-wrapper" class="form-item">
</div>
<div id="edit-site-sections-926-wrapper" class="form-item">
</div>
<div id="edit-site-sections-927-wrapper" class="form-item">
</div>
<div id="edit-site-sections-928-wrapper" class="form-item">
</div>
<div id="edit-site-sections-919-wrapper" class="form-item">
</div>
<div id="edit-site-sections-929-wrapper" class="form-item">
</div>
<div id="edit-site-sections-930-wrapper" class="form-item">
</div>
<div id="edit-site-sections-931-wrapper" class="form-item">
</div>
<div id="edit-site-sections-932-wrapper" class="form-item">
</div>
<div id="edit-site-sections-920-wrapper" class="form-item">
</div>
<div id="edit-site-sections-933-wrapper" class="form-item">
</div>
<div id="edit-site-sections-934-wrapper" class="form-item">
</div>
<div id="edit-site-sections-921-wrapper" class="form-item">
</div>
<div id="edit-site-sections-935-wrapper" class="form-item">
</div>
<div id="edit-site-sections-936-wrapper" class="form-item">
</div>
<div id="edit-site-sections-937-wrapper" class="form-item">
</div>
<div id="edit-site-sections-938-wrapper" class="form-item">
</div>
<div id="edit-site-sections-922-wrapper" class="form-item">
</div>
</div>
<div class="description">Test description</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="description">Test description</div>
</div>
Can anyone explain why this is happening?
Thanks.
Steve
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Steve Edwards <[email protected]>
> Date: January 14, 2010 7:36:41 AM PST
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [development] Creating embedded unordered lists of checkboxes
>
> Well, the problem with that is I've tried just that (creating my own custom
> checkboxes function), and as I said in the initial post, when it gets to my
> custom theme_checkboxes form, the #children have not been rendered since that
> step was skipped in drupal_render() simply because #theme was set for the
> checkboxes element. If I could get to my custom theme_checkboxes element
> with $element['#children'] set, I'd be fine, but that's what's throwing the
> wrench into things.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Steve
>
>
>
> On Jan 13, 2010, at 7:39 PM, David Metzler wrote:
>
>> I think you're on the right track. Check out:
>>
>> http://drupal.org/node/197578
>>
>> which shows you how to render a checkboxes control into a table. You
>> shouldn't technically need the form-item theme function to do what you're
>> doing, but rather just a custom checkboxes theming form. I've done that
>> successfully in D5, but it looks like it would work in D6. Note the direct
>> calls to theme_checkbox in that function so that it renders each of the
>> checkboxes properly
>>
>> Hope that helps,
>>
>> Dave
>>
>>
>>
>> On Jan 13, 2010, at 4:54 PM, Steve Edwards wrote:
>>
>>> I have a need to create a two-level unordered list of checkboxes from a two
>>> level taxonomy vocabulary. So for instance, if my vocabulary is
>>>
>>> - Level 1 term 1
>>> -- Level 2 term 1
>>> -- Level 2 term 2
>>> -- Level 2 term 3
>>> - Level 1 term 2
>>> -- Level 2 term 4
>>> -- Level 2 term 5
>>> - Level 1 term 3
>>>
>>> I want to create the following:
>>>
>>> <ul>
>>> <li><input type = checkbox">Level 1 term 1</li>
>>> <ul>
>>> <li><input type = checkbox">.Level 2 term 1</li>
>>> <li><input type = checkbox">Level 2 term 2</li>
>>> <li><input type = checkbox">Level 2 term 3</li>
>>> </ul>
>>> <li><input type = checkbox">Level 1 term 2</li>
>>> <ul>
>>> <li><input type = checkbox">Level 2 term 4</li>
>>> <li><input type = checkbox">Level 2 term 5</li>
>>> <ul>
>>> <li><input type = checkbox">Level 1 term 3<li>
>>> </ul>
>>>
>>> What is the best way to do this? Just use a checkboxes element type and
>>> create my own theme function for the form? Modify something like
>>> theme_item_list? Or is there a better (and easier) way that I'm missing?
>>>
>>> What I tried doing was to create a theme function for my checkboxes element
>>> by setting the #theme property for the element to my custom theme function
>>> (and registering the function in hook_theme). I then just made a copy of
>>> theme_checkboxes() (and theme_form_element since it's called from
>>> theme_form_checkboxes) and renamed to match hook_theme and the #theme
>>> property. However, when doing that, none of my checkboxes are rendered at
>>> all. On stepping through the code, I found the problem in drupal_render
>>> starting at line 2868:
>>>
>>> if (!isset($elements['#children'])) {
>>> $children = element_children($elements);
>>> // Render all the children that use a theme function.
>>> if (isset($elements['#theme']) && empty($elements['#theme_used'])) {
>>> $elements['#theme_used'] = TRUE;
>>>
>>> $previous = array();
>>> foreach (array('#value', '#type', '#prefix', '#suffix') as $key) {
>>> $previous[$key] = isset($elements[$key]) ? $elements[$key] : NULL;
>>> }
>>> // If we rendered a single element, then we will skip the renderer.
>>> if (empty($children)) {
>>> $elements['#printed'] = TRUE;
>>> }
>>> else {
>>> $elements['#value'] = '';
>>> }
>>> $elements['#type'] = 'markup';
>>>
>>> unset($elements['#prefix'], $elements['#suffix']);
>>> $content = theme($elements['#theme'], $elements);
>>>
>>> foreach (array('#value', '#type', '#prefix', '#suffix') as $key) {
>>> $elements[$key] = isset($previous[$key]) ? $previous[$key] : NULL;
>>> }
>>> }
>>> // Render each of the children using drupal_render and concatenate them.
>>> if (!isset($content) || $content === '') {
>>> foreach ($children as $key) {
>>> $content .= drupal_render($elements[$key]);
>>> }
>>> }
>>> }
>>>
>>> So basically, because I have #theme set for the checkboxes field, it skips
>>> the rendering of the individual checkbox elements. To me, it makes sense
>>> that I override the theme function for the checkboxes type since that's the
>>> element type, but that doesn't seem to be the case. So what do I need to
>>> do to be able to simply theme my checkboxes element?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Steve
>>>
>>
>
