Re: default checkbox state still not fixed

http://www.dereuromark.de/2010/06/23/working-with-forms/

On 17 Okt., 22:41, cricket <zijn.digi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 1.3.4
>
> How are others dealing with the broken checkbox implementation?
> Situation: I want a checkbox to have a default state, checked or
> unchecked. To have the former:
>
> echo $this->Form->input(
>         'Model.foo',
>         array(
>                 'label' => 'foo',
>                 'checked' => 1
>         )
> );
>
> However, if the value in the DB is 0 the checkbox will be displayed
> checked. It seems to me that the default should only be used if the
> value in $data is empty or the key doesn't exist. Bug reports
> explaining this have been ignored. How are others handling this
> situation?
>
> My workaround (bootstrap.php:
>
> function getChecked($data = array(), $model = null, $field = null)
> {
>         if (sizeof($data) && !is_null($model) && !is_null($field))
>         {
>                 return $data[$model][$field];
>         }
>         return false;
>
> }
>
> echo $this->Form->input(
>         'Model.foo',
>         array(
>                 'label' => 'foo',
>                 'checked' => getChecked($this->data, 'Poll', 'active')
>         )
> );
>
> This is very similar to how I used to write non-Cake form code. But it
> seems kind of dumb to need to do this, considering everything else
> FormHelper provides.

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