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tintincute Reply #1, 16 years, 2 months ago

hi
i’m having problems with my checkbox in modx it seems it is not working and would like to ask for your help.

i made a form and the user should select 2 dates or 1 date. this is the sample:
The problem is, if I select the first date and the second date - it works
The first date and the third date - it works
However, if I just select the 2nd date - it doesn’t work
The 3rd date - doesn’t work as well
And the 2nd and the 3rd date - doesn’t work as well.
Can you please tell me where did i go wrong from here?
Thanks
Btw, the forms are composed of 4 different ones

<div style="background-color:#CCDFED">
<form method="post" action="[~[*id*]~]">
    <input type="hidden" name="formid" value="registrationForm" />

   
    <table>
        
    <tr>
        <td><label for="dates" style="margin:0.5em">Dates:</label>
        <td>
            <input type="checkbox" name="date[]" value="Mo 04 Oct"    eform="Date::1"/>	Mo 04 Oct <br/>
            <input type="checkbox" name="date[]" value="Wed 13 Oct " />	Wed 13 Oct <br/>
            <input type="checkbox" name="date[]" value="Fr 22 Oct  "  />	Fr 22 Oct <br/>           
        </td>
    </tr> 
 </table>
    
</form>
</div>

And this is the code of mail: Is this correct?

<h3>The Form</h3>

<p>This is a confirmation [+email+], from the website: </p>

<table>
    <tr valign="top"><td>Date</td><td>[+date[]+]</td></tr>
    <tr valign="top"><td>Date</td><td>[+date[]+]</td></tr>
    <tr valign="top"><td>Date</td><td>[+date[]+]</td></tr>         
</table>

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samba Reply #2, 16 years, 2 months ago

Hi Tintin,
I take it you’re using Eform. Very powerful, but not always easy.

As far as I can tell, you’ve done a super job setting up the form code.

But in my experience, strangely enough, I would suggest only one instance of "date" in your email template as per below. I don’t think your way will work (with the subscripts). I think if the user chooses more than one, they may all appear in the one spot in the following template:

<table>
<tr valign="top"><td>Date</td><td>[+date+]</td></tr>
</table>

This is not clearly documented anywhere, to my knowledge.

Good luck!
Dave

PS: if you’re having other problems, I would suggest trying another variable name besides "date".... I wonder if it’s a reserved word somewhere!

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sottwell Reply #3, 16 years, 2 months ago

You definitely won’t get anywhere with [+date[]+] in the output. The name of the form field gets away with it (it’s actually a kludge workaround to get the browser to handle multiple items of the same name) but as a placeholder it won’t work.

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tintincute Reply #4, 16 years, 2 months ago

yes I’m using Eform.
So that means I will write it this way?

<div style="background-color:#CCDFED">
<form method="post" action="[~[*id*]~]">
    <input type="hidden" name="formid" value="registrationForm" />   
    <table>
        
    <tr>
        <td><label for="dates" style="margin:0.5em">Dates:</label>
        <td>
            <input type="checkbox" name="date[]" value="Mo 04 Oct"    eform="Date::1"/>	Mo 04 Oct <br/>
            <input type="checkbox" name="date[]" value="Wed 13 Oct " />	Wed 13 Oct <br/>
            <input type="checkbox" name="date[]" value="Fr 22 Oct  "  />	Fr 22 Oct <br/>           
        </td>
    </tr> 
 </table>
    
</form>
</div>

<h3>The Confirmation, what the webmaster will received after the user register the infos</h3>

<p>This is a confirmation [+email+], from the website: </p>

<table>
    <tr valign="top"><td>Date</td><td>[+date[]+]</td></tr>         
</table>

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sottwell Reply #5, 16 years, 2 months ago

Try to pay attention to your terminology, it can lead to a lot of confusion. The first is a form, but the second is not a form at all, so what you may do in form fields won’t apply. In the form, if you have elements with the same name you use the [] to force it into emulating an array.

In the email tpl, it’s not a form. You just want the placeholder, which is [+date+].

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tintincute Reply #6, 16 years, 2 months ago

ok sorry about that, i’m still confused with everything

Ok, so that means the code is correct now?

The problem is: if I do that, and if the user will select 2 dates, the last one will only be displayed.
And I don’t understand why?

Is it possible that the user can select 2 dates at the same time and the dates selected will also be displayed?
I can’t find how to have it work

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samba Reply #7, 16 years, 2 months ago

Yes, Tintin,
Try it this way, and see what you get. As you noted, the only change is in the email template (which they call a report - somewhat confusing). Even though there’s only one "date" there, if you choose more than one in your form, I’m not absolutely sure without testing, but I think you will see both items in that location. Not perfect, but pretty good.

Eform is quite powerful, yet likes to be a little mysterious as well.

Good luck!

Cheers, Dave

Quote from: tintincute at Aug 19, 2010, 02:01 AM

yes I’m using Eform.
So that means I will write it this way?

<div style="background-color:#CCDFED">
<form method="post" action="[~[*id*]~]">
    <input type="hidden" name="formid" value="registrationForm" />   
    <table>
        
    <tr>
        <td><label for="dates" style="margin:0.5em">Dates:</label>
        <td>
            <input type="checkbox" name="date[]" value="Mo 04 Oct"    eform="Date::1"/>	Mo 04 Oct <br/>
            <input type="checkbox" name="date[]" value="Wed 13 Oct " />	Wed 13 Oct <br/>
            <input type="checkbox" name="date[]" value="Fr 22 Oct  "  />	Fr 22 Oct <br/>           
        </td>
    </tr> 
 </table>
    
</form>
</div>

<h3>The Confirmation, what the webmaster will received after the user register the infos</h3>

<p>This is a confirmation [+email+], from the website: </p>

<table>
    <tr valign="top"><td>Date</td><td>[+date[]+]</td></tr>         
</table>

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