Activeform Checkboxlist Yields Array Keys

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

Hi,

I am putting an array in the $data field of the activeForm checkBoxList.

When saved, the values of the array are not saved instead it is saved as the array keys.

How should I extract the array values instead?

Below is the code

$names is an array of data from the DB




echo $form->checkBoxList($model,'name', $names

)); 

// when model is saved, $name = 0,1,2,3 instead of the actual name

I even tried the following


echo $form->checkBoxList($model,'name', array_values($names)

)); 

// when model is saved, $name = 0,1,2,3 instead of the actual name

It yielded the same result.

I’ve checked the integrity of the array by printing out values of $name i.e.


echo $name[1]; //Yielded 'John'

Seems to be intact. Not sure how to solve this now.

2

How do you save it?

3

Saved it like this


public function actionCreate()

	{


		$model = new Letter;

		// Uncomment the following line if AJAX validation is needed

		// $this->performAjaxValidation($model);


		if(isset($_POST['Letter']))

		{	

			

		

			$model->attributes=$_POST['Letter'];

			$model->name = implode(",",$model->name);

				

				if($model->save()){




					


					$this->redirect(array( '/prf/activeCam', ));  

			}

		

		}

		$this->render('create',array(

			'model'=>$model,

}
4

I see.

Since checkboxList requires the array of ‘value’ => ‘label’ as options, all you need to do is to create appropriate array for $names.

You can use array_combine for that.

5

NICE!! it works!! thanks :D

Here’s how its solved




//Swopped Array Keys to its values.


$nameKeys = array_values($names);

$combineNames = array_combine($names, $nameKeys);


//Pass this into checkBoxList


echo $form->checkBoxList($model,'name',$combineNames);

BOOM!

Thanks again man!!

6

I suppose you can do array_combine($names, $names); since $names is probably just an array of strings

7

oh yeah! that’s right HA!

boggled mind in procedural mode