-- Philip G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
(on Wednesday, 02 January 2008, 01:53 PM -0600):
> Is it just me, or is this helper a little broken? I see the
> description. It took me a while to figure out exactly what it was
> doing (ie: why the heck it added a hidden field) and then I got to
> wondering what the heck it was doing.
The issues you report are known issues regarding this and the radio
helpers, all reported on the issue tracker:
http://framework.zend.com/issues/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&&pid=10000&resolution=-1&component=10026&sorter/field=priority&sorter/order=DESC
I cannot give a time frame for their resolution, but most likely they
will be resolved as part of the Zend_Form development (i.e., before the
next minor release).
> Slight recap. Per the documents:
> ---
> formCheckbox($name, $value, $attribs, $options): Creates an <input
> type="checkbox" /> element. The $options param is an array where the
> first value is the "checked" value, and the second is the "unchecked"
> value (the defaults are '1' and '0'). If $value matches the "checked"
> value, the box will be checked for you.
> ----
>
> That's confusing in itself. Is my "$options" an array of already
> checked values? What's with this checked and unchecked value? Why do I
> care about unchecked values? Checkboxes are all or nothing options.
> Why do I care about the nothing value?
>
> Then I look at the example:
> ----
> <p><label>Would you like to opt in?
> <?php echo $this->formCheckbox('opt_in', 'yes', null,
> array('yes', 'no')) ?>
> </label></p>
> ---
>
> Which produces:
> ----
> <p><label>Would you like to opt in?
> <input type="hidden" name="opt_in" value="no" />
> <input type="checkbox" name="opt_in" value="yes" checked="checked" />
> </label></p>
> ----
>
> Then I got to wondering, who the heck designed this? For starters,
> that should be a radio button question, not checkbox. Or you code to
> properly check for "opt_in"; if it doesn't exist (or empty), they
> didn't check the box.
>
> The issue comes down to making lists. Checkboxes are for zero or more
> answers in a list. Radio buttons are used for 1 required answer among
> a list.
>
> It seems to be this checkbox helper is completely broken. Not only
> does it not work well for lists, it completely breaks when you try to
> use it for a list. When you have a list of these checkboxes, everyone
> attempts to value itself the same (based on name). None of them use []
> to signify array input and, to top it off, if you put [] in the name,
> it puts it in the ID value, which is invalid.
>
> Now, my question to the devs, is this being updated? Fixed? Righted?
> In its current incarnation, I feel its very broken and goes against
> the very spec checkbox is suppose to be used form.
>
> Or am I just smoking crack and I completely missed something here?
>
> --
> Philip
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.gpcentre.net/
>
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Matthew Weier O'Phinney
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