Question

Currently, i have succeeded in creating the checkbox.
The array which i have setup is as below:

$emailName = $this->User->find('list', array(
    'fields' => array('User.username', 'User.email')
    ));

The output is as follows:

array
  'admin' => string '[e-mail]' (length=11)
  'test' => string '[e-mail]' (length=14)
  'Floo' => string '[e-mail]' (length=16)

I’m trying to make the checkbox shows the username instead of the user email in view.ctp.

I have tried using the following code in view.ctp

<?php echo $this->Form->input('Address_list.['.$emailName['username'].']', array(
    'type' => 'select',
    'multiple' => 'checkbox',
    'options' => $emailName['email']
    )); ?>

However, it seems that this doesn’t work. Any ideas?

Answer 1

You are not formatting your form field for the checkbox list correctly. Try changing it to this:

echo $this->Form->input('Address_list', array(
    'multiple' => 'checkbox',
    'options' => $emailName, 
));

However, this will return the value of Username based on the selection of Email the user chooses. It creates the form like this:

<label for="Address_list">Address List</label>
<input type="hidden" id="Address_list" value="" name="data[Address_list]"/>
<div class="checkbox"><input type="checkbox" id="AddressListAdmin" value="admin" 
   name="data[Address_list][]"/><label for="AddressListAdmin">[e-mail]</label></div>
<div class="checkbox"><input type="checkbox" id="AddressListTest" value="test"
   name="data[Address_list][]"/><label for="AddressListTest">[e-mail]</label></div>
<div class="checkbox"><input type="checkbox" id="AddressListFloo" value="Floo" 
   name="data[Address_list][]"/><label for="AddressListFloo">[e-mail]</label></div>