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Hi!

So I have a custom field in one of my channels that has 7 checkboxes - one for each day of the week. The output of the custom field {job_schedule} is parsed as “Sunday|Tuesday|Friday” etc.. depending on which boxes are checked.

I want to display specific HTML based upon these individual options, but the only way I could think of to do this was using strpos..

Is there a better way?

Here’s what i’ve got….

<?php

$job_schedule = '{job_schedule}';
$sunday   = 'Sunday';
$monday   = 'Monday';
$tuesday   = 'Tuesday';
$wednesday   = 'Wednesday';
$thursday   = 'Thursday';
$friday   = 'Friday';
$saturday   = 'Saturday';
$sundaytest = strpos($job_schedule, $sunday);
$mondaytest = strpos($job_schedule, $monday);
$tuesdaytest = strpos($job_schedule, $tuesday);
$wednesdaytest = strpos($job_schedule, $wednesday);
$thursdaytest = strpos($job_schedule, $thursday);
$fridaytest = strpos($job_schedule, $friday);
$saturdaytest = strpos($job_schedule, $saturday);

if($sundaytest === false){
?>S <?
} else {
?><span class="orangeglow">S </span><?
}

if($mondaytest === false){
?>M <?
} else {
?><span class="orangeglow">M </span><?
}

if($tuesdaytest === false){
?>T <?
} else {
?><span class="orangeglow">T </span><?
}

if($wednesdaytest === false){
?>W <?
} else {
?><span class="orangeglow">W </span><?
}

if($thursdaytest === false){
?>T <?
} else {
?><span class="orangeglow">T </span><?
}

if($fridaytest === false){
?>F <?
} else {
?><span class="orangeglow">F </span><?
}

if($saturdaytest === false){
?>S <?
} else {
?><span class="orangeglow">S </span><?
}

?>

Hi Brian,

Which version of ExpressionEngine is it that you are running here?

In the latest version of 2.3.1 the output would be Sunday, Monday, Tuesday etc…

Are you using the built-in Checkboxes custom field or perhaps a 3rd party add-on here?

If the built-in Checkboxes field then check out the documentation on that sort of field here in our documentation as that should show you how to get at multiple selections.

If a 3rd party add-on then you would need to contact the author of the add-on to see how to use it as we can’t support them here I’m afraid.

Does that help at all?

Thanks,

Mark

Mark, you’re right - I had the output formatting wrong. (I’m getting what you suggested.) Regardless, I didn’t think there was a way to natively within EE’s capabilities check if a custom field “contains” a value/string - only to check if a value was ==, !=, etc…

Is there a way around this w/o using PHP?

*Update* I’m on 2.3.1

Hi Brian,

I believe this sort of thing should work for you here :

{job_schedule}

{if item == "Monday"}
Monday was selected!
{/if}

{item}

{/job_schedule}

See if that works for you maybe?

Thanks,

Mark