Question

The Zend Form is proving to be a bit tricky for me, even as much as I am working with it lately…

I have this form and I am attempting to dynamically create the several checkboxes for it. It is working out alright, except I cannot seem to get the ‘value’ attribute to change.

In my Zend form class I have this snippet…

// psychotic symptoms
        $this->addElement('checkbox', 'psychoticsymptom', array(
                'label' => 'psychoticsymptom',
                'name' => 'psychoticsymptom',
        ));

In my view (phtml) I am calling it like this…

<div class="element">
    <?php // Psychotic Symptoms
    $Criteria = new Criteria();
    $Criteria->add( DictionaryPeer::CATEGORY, 'MAR: Psychotic Symptoms' );
    $Criteria->addAscendingOrderByColumn( 'Ordinal' );
    $this->PsychoticSymptomsList = DictionaryPeer::doSelect( $Criteria );

    foreach( $this->PsychoticSymptomsList as $Symptom ) {

        $form->psychoticsymptom->setValue($Symptom->getDictionaryId());
        $form->psychoticsymptom->setAttrib('name', $Symptom->getWord());

        echo $Symptom->getDictionaryId(); // prove my id is coming through... (it is)
        $form->psychoticsymptom->getDecorator('label')->setTag(null);

        echo $form->psychoticsymptom->renderViewHelper();
        $form->psychoticsymptom->setLabel($Symptom->getWord());
        echo $form->psychoticsymptom->renderLabel();
        echo '<br />';
                    }
        ?>
    </div>

Everything seems to be working fine, except the value attribute on each checkbox is rendering a value of ‘1’. I have tried moving the ‘setValue’ line to several different positions, as to set the value before the form element renders but I am having no luck getting this to work. It’s worth any effort to me because I need to do the same type of operation in many areas of my application. I would have done this a bit different too, but I am re-factoring another application and am trying to keep some things unchanged (like the database for instance).

Any help is much appriciated
Thanks

Answer 1

you can try to overwrite the “checkedValue” and “uncheckedValue”. check this reference

$this->addElement('checkbox', 'psychoticsymptom', array(
                'label' => 'psychoticsymptom',
                'name' => 'psychoticsymptom',
                'checkedValue' => 'checked Value',
                'uncheckedValue' => 'unchecked Value'
        ));