{html_checkboxes}

{html_checkboxes} is a custom function that creates an html checkbox group with provided data. It takes care of which item(s) are selected by default as well.

Attributes

Attribute Name	Required	Description
name	No	Name of checkbox list (defaults to 'checkbox')
values	Yes, unless using options attribute	An array of values for checkbox buttons
output	Yes, unless using options attribute	An array of output for checkbox buttons
selected	No	The selected checkbox element(s) as a string or array
options	Yes, unless using values and output	An associative array of values and output
separator	No	String of text to separate each checkbox item
assign	No	Assign checkbox tags to an array instead of output
labels	No	Add <label>-tags to the output (defaults to true)
label_ids	No	Add id-attributes to <label> and <input> to the output (defaults to false)
escape	No	Escape the output / content (values are always escaped) (defaults to true)
strict	No	Will make the "extra" attributes disabled and readonly only be set, if they were supplied with either boolean TRUE or string "disabled" and "readonly" respectively (defaults to false)

• Required attributes are values and output, unless you use options instead.

• All output is XHTML compliant.

• All parameters that are not in the list above are printed as name/value-pairs inside each of the created <input>-tags.

Examples

<?php

$smarty->assign('cust_ids', array(1000,1001,1002,1003));
$smarty->assign('cust_names', array(
                                'Joe Schmoe',
                                'Jack Smith',
                                'Jane Johnson',
                                'Charlie Brown')
                              );
$smarty->assign('customer_id', 1001);

where template is

{html_checkboxes name='id' values=$cust_ids output=$cust_names selected=$customer_id  separator='<br />'}

or where PHP code is:

<?php

$smarty->assign(
    'cust_checkboxes', 
    [
     1000 => 'Joe Schmoe',
     1001 => 'Jack Smith',
     1002 => 'Jane Johnson',
     1003 => 'Charlie Brown',
    ]
);
$smarty->assign('customer_id', 1001);

and the template is

{html_checkboxes name='id' options=$cust_checkboxes selected=$customer_id separator='<br />'}

both examples will output:

<label><input type="checkbox" name="id[]" value="1000" />Joe Schmoe</label><br />
<label><input type="checkbox" name="id[]" value="1001" checked="checked" />Jack Smith</label>
<br />
<label><input type="checkbox" name="id[]" value="1002" />Jane Johnson</label><br />
<label><input type="checkbox" name="id[]" value="1003" />Charlie Brown</label><br />

<?php

$sql = 'select type_id, types from contact_types order by type';
$smarty->assign('contact_types',$db->getAssoc($sql));

$sql = 'select contact_id, contact_type_id, contact '
       .'from contacts where contact_id=12';
$smarty->assign('contact',$db->getRow($sql));

The results of the database queries above would be output with.

{html_checkboxes name='contact_type_id' options=$contact_types selected=$contact.contact_type_id separator='<br />'}

See also {html_radios} and {html_options}