How To Get Checkboxlist On Action Update?

Hi all.

I have the following CheckBoxList.

		<?php

		echo $form->checkBoxList($model,'sessionsids',ConferenceProgram::model()->getConfListData(),

			array(

				'template'=>'{input}{label}',

				'separator'=>'<br>',

				'labelOptions'=>array(

				'style'=> '

				width: 690px;

				float: right;

				'),

			) );

		?>

I got the example for somewhere on the net. As you can see I hook it to my current view model called $model, but the actual list comes from ConferenceProgram::model()->getConfListData()

The list works and my checkboxes are shown, but on submit of the form, it is not getting any data back. I have tried:

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


//Both lines below return nothing

$sessionsarr=$model->sessionsids;

$sessionsarr=$_POST['ConferenceAttendee']['sessionsids'];

And a few other things, but I just don’t get the selected checkbox values back to the controller.

Thanks for any help…

Hi

did you set the sessionsids in rules of the model (and as a specific variable) ?

Also trace your code using var_dump($_POST). What do you see ?

This is what I have created in ConferenceAttendee model:

public $sessionsids = array();




public function rules()

{

	return array(

		array('sessionsids', 'required','message'=>'You must select at least 1 Conference Session.'),

	);

}




public function getSessionsIds()//Custom field

{

	return $this->sessionsids;

}

	

public function setSessionsIds($sessionsids)//Custom field

{

	$this->sessionsids = $sessionsids;

}

This is the var_dump output:

array (size=2)

  'ConfConferenceAttendee' => 

    array (size=10)

      'person_firstname' => string 'Katrin' (length=6)

      'person_lastname' => string 'ouioiu' (length=6)

      'person_contact_email' => string 'katrin@uoiuio.com' (length=17)

      'person_contact_number' => string '8889996235' (length=10)

      'address_line_1' => string 'adr1' (length=4)

      'address_line_2' => string 'adr2' (length=4)

      'address_line_3' => string 'adr3' (length=4)

      'address_line_4' => string 'adr4' (length=4)

      'conf_diet_type_id' => string '2' (length=1)

      'sessionsids' => 

        array (size=3)

          0 => string '1' (length=1)

          1 => string '2' (length=1)

          2 => string '3' (length=1)

  'yt0' => string 'Save' (length=4)

So after of that

$model->attributes=$_POST[‘ConfConferenceAttendee’];

var_dump ($model->sessionsids) should display all selected items. right ?

Yip, after doing:

var_dump ($model->sessionsids);

die;

I get:

array (size=2)

  0 => string '1' (length=1)

  1 => string '2' (length=1)

This is 100% correct, but how to access them so I can write them to the database?

You should override the beforeSave or afterSave model method and in foreach iterator save the another models with the specific sessionsid

Thanks, but as I have mentioned, I cannot seem to get the ids back to my action using any of the below methods to access them. I can see via the DUMP that they are getting passed, but how do I get them stored in a variable so I can use them? Below is what I have tried:

None of these work.

$sessionsarr=$model->sessionsids; //sessionsids is empty

$sessionsarr=$_POST['ConferenceAttendee']['sessionsids']; //sessionsids is empty

$sessionsarr=$_POST['sessionsids']; //Compilation error

This is what I use to iterate through them:

for($i=0; $i<sizeof($sessionsarr); $i++)

{

	$sessStore = new ConfAttendeeLinkProgram; //Model

	$sessStore->attendee_id=$id; //$id is the primary key of selected row to update

	$sessStore->conference_program_id=$sessionsarr[$i];

	$sessStore->save();

}

You said that the var_dump $_POST[‘ConfConferenceAttendee’][‘sessionsids’] has values so,

$sessionsarr = $model->sessionsids; //if not works then something not works in massive assigment on

$model->attributes = $_POST[‘ConfConferenceAttendee’]; (please inform us)

$sessionsarr=$_POST[‘ConferenceAttendee’][‘sessionsids’]; //has values ?

Thank you very much, by adding more DUMPS I could trace it down to the loop and followed your instruction to use a foreach loop instead.

To finish and close this topic, this is the final piece of code:

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

{

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

	$sessionsarr = $model->sessionsids;

		

		if($model->save())

		{

			foreach($sessionsarr as $sessid)

			{

				$sessStore = new ConfAttendeeLinkProgram;

				$sessStore->attendee_id=$id;

				$sessStore->conference_program_id=$sessid;

				$sessStore->save();

			}

1. So, what was the problem ? Other Yii members maybe want to know about it.

2. Also your code after of successful save you could use overriding afterSave method of your model for reusable reason

3. Thanks for your voting

It seems like it did not like the for loop, or the for loop did not understand the $sessionarr, or maybe $sessionsarr was/is not passed as an array?

This worked:

$sessionsarr = $model->sessionsids;

foreach($sessionsarr as $sessid)

{

	$sessStore = new ConfAttendeeLinkProgram;

	$sessStore->attendee_id=$id;

	$sessStore->conference_program_id=$sessid;

	$sessStore->save();

}

This did NOT work:

$sessionsarr = $model->sessionsids;

for($i=0; $i<sizeof($sessionsarr); $i++)

{

        $sessStore = new ConfAttendeeLinkProgram;

        $sessStore->attendee_id=$id;

        $sessStore->conference_program_id=$sessionsarr[$i];

        $sessStore->save();

}

It should work!

$sessionsarr is an array with integer index (0=>‘1’,1=>‘3’,…)

check with var_dump ($sessionsarr); ‘foreach’ and ‘for’ should work same loops, add an echo ($i); what happens ?