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Template Inheritance
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{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.
Attribute Name | Type | Required | Default | Description |
---|---|---|---|---|
name | string | No | checkbox | Name of checkbox list |
values | array | Yes, unless using options attribute | n/a | An array of values for checkbox buttons |
output | array | Yes, unless using options attribute | n/a | An array of output for checkbox buttons |
selected | string/array | No | empty | The selected checkbox element(s) |
options | associative array | Yes, unless using values and output | n/a | An associative array of values and output |
separator | string | No | empty | String of text to separate each checkbox item |
assign | string | No | empty | Assign checkbox tags to an array instead of output |
labels | boolean | No | TRUE |
Add <label>-tags to the output |
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.
Example 8.9. {html_checkboxes}
<?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', array( 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 />
Example 8.10. Database example (eg PEAR or ADODB):
<?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}