FormIt and checkboxes, and validation

Hi Alex,
FormItBuilder can take a lot of that sort of pain away.
http://modx.com/extras/package/formitbuilder

Checkboxes can be a problem. You need to use a hidden element fallback really. FormItBuilder should do all of this for you automatically.

Example here
http://modxrevo.datawebnet.com.au/formitbuilder-complex-example

Hey Marcus,

Literally just got it sorted!

Had a closing / beforethe >
ie.

instead of

That does look cool though! Nice.

Quote from: alexmercenary at Apr 26, 2012, 06:01 AM

Hey Marcus,

Literally just got it sorted!

Had a closing / beforethe >
ie.

<input name="color[]" value="blue" [[!+fi.color:formitischecked="`blue`]]" type="checkbox"> Blue

instead of

<input name="color[]" value="blue" [[!+fi.color:formitischecked="`blue`]]" type="checkbox"> Blue

Hi i tried this solution but my checkbox values still get lost on validation.... Any ideas how to fix this?

found it:
it needs to be


and not


and check that the cache of the page the form is on is turned OFF! It drove me nearly nuts to find this...

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