Question

I am working on zend. I have a form with some checkboxes. I want to get data from database and populate this data to this form. If ‘1’ is stored in table field then tick the check box otherwise leave it alone. In textboxes and dropdowns, data is easily populated but how to check a checkbox in action.

I am creating checkboxes and textboxes elements like this in form.php:

// Person name
$person = $this->CreateElement('text', 'name');
$person->setLabel('Name');
$elements[] = $person;    

// Organization name
$person = $this->CreateElement('text', 'organization');
$person->setLabel('Organization');
$elements[] = $person;       

// isAdmin Checkbox
$isAdmin = $this->CreateElement('checkbox', 'isAdmin');
$isAdmin->setLabel('Admin');
$elements[] = $isAdmin;

$this->addElements($elements);
$this->setElementDecorators(array('ViewHelper'));

// set form decorator (what script will render the form)
$this->setDecorators(array(array('ViewScript' , array('viewScript' => 'organization/accessroles-form.phtml'))));

How I render a form:

<form name="myform" action="<?= $this->element->getAction() ?>" method="<?= $this->element->getMethod() ?>" id="accessrolesform">

<table align="center" width="100%" border="0"><tbody>

<tr>
    <td><?= $this->element->name ?></td>
</tr>

<tr>
    <td><?= $this->element->organization ?></td>
</tr>


<tr>
    <td><?= $this->element->isAdmin ?></td>
</tr>

</table>
</form>

And populating data like this (for example):

// Prepare data to populate
$data['name'] = 'Naveed';
$data['organization'] = 'ABC';
$data['isAdmin'] = '1';

// Populate editable data
$this->view->form->populate( $data );

It is populating data in textboxes but not checking the checkbox? Any idea that how to check a checkbox from action?

Thanks

Answer 1

From the manual:

By default, the checked value is ‘1’,
and the unchecked value ‘0’. You can
specify the values to use using the
setCheckedValue() and
setUncheckedValue() accessors,
respectively. Additionally, setting
the value sets the checked property of
the checkbox. You can query this using
isChecked() or simply accessing the
property. Using the setChecked($flag)
method will both set the state of the
flag as well as set the appropriate
checked or unchecked value in the
element. Please use this method when
setting the checked state of a
checkbox element to ensure the value
is set properly.

$checkboxElement->setChecked(true);

will set the value of the checkbox to ‘checked=”checked” with a value of “1”.