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I am using safecracker to create a form for advertisers to place adverts on my site.

I want to ask them if they would like to include their telephone number and email address on their advert so have included the following checkbox custom field:

contact_preferences

This field has the following 2 multi-select options

Display my email address
Display my telephone number

I display this checkbox as follows:

{custom_fields}

     {if checkbox}

    {options}
    <label class="checkbox"><input type="checkbox" id="{field_name}" name="{field_name}[]" value="{option_value}"{checked} /> {option_value} </label>

    {/options}
     {/if}

{/custom_fields}

When I submit my form, I can see via the control panel that it works.

My question is how would I include an if statement in my code to display the advert based on the value of this custom field?

Here is some psuedo code to try and show what I need

{exp:channel:entries channel="adverts" show_empty="yes"  limit="1"}

if {contact_preferences["Display my email address"] == true}

     {contact_email}

end if

if {contact_preferences["Display my telephone number"] == true}

     {contact_telephone}

end if

I see if I just display

{contact_preferences}

within the channel entries tag, I get the following if I had checked both checkboxes:

Display my email address, Display my telephone number

Thanks in advance for any help

Paul

im having the same issue. Checkbox is not working. I have no idea what is wrong, and It very much looks like it is indeed a bug in EE2.

EE2.2.1
Dmitry

I don’t think my issue is a bug as I am getting the values set correctly. It is just because my checkbox as multiple values, the results are displayed as a comma delimited string. I am guessing I need to somehow extract the separate elements.

I am however trying out an alternative approach using Radio buttons instead which appears to eliminate my issue.

@Dmitri - when you say the checkbox is not working, what errors are you getting?

i also failed to figure out the way how it works within conditional statement. (i.e like in your psuedo code)

i meant this is a bug bcs it behaves very strange, in my case checkbox won’t save it’s value after submitting it in safecracker. what version of EE you’re running? can you check this also (i.e saving ability) ?

but you’re right there is work around, i just used PT fields for that purpose.

Hi Paul,

I think you might get the results you want if you use your checkbox field as a tag pair. For example:

{checkbox_field}
  {if item == “My special Value”}
  Conditional Content
  {/if}
{/checkbox_field}

Can you adapt that pseudo code to your template and let us know if that gets you where you want to be?

Cheers,