RTF Checkbox Replace

mikotondria

Hi 🙂..
I have a checkbox on my php form, the 'onness' of which is stored in a MySQL db as either 'on' or not.
I am merging the data with an RTF using strreplace etc, but am a little unsure as to how to write a function that will make a mark where the checkbox data is 'on'..
I need something like:

function dotick($field)
{
global $output;
if ($field == "on"){
$output = str_replace('%' . $field . '%', 'X', $output);
}
}

Where the field is represented in the RTF by %something%.
I want the function to replace %something% by an 'X', or by a blank space if its not 'on'.

For each case of a checkbox, I want just to call the function, and pass it the name of the variable, like so:

dotick($variablename);

Any ideas ? :s

Thanks in advance,
Mik.e

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devinemke

you already asked this question and got suggested answers on this thread. in fact, you already marked it "resolved"

mikotondria

heh 🙂..
You're on your toes..
Yeah, I got a great answer on the Radio buttons in that thread and that solution is working perfectly.
For a checkbox, though its a slightly different approach I need, as the check box is only "on" or " ", and there's only one place in the form to mark it, rather than replacing 1 of 2 holders on the rtf document..
I've just got to the following this morning...

($fieldname == "on") ? dotick(fieldname) : dotick(null);

in the 'replacer' script, where

function dotick($field)
{
global $output;
$output = str_replace('%' . $field . '%', '[X]', $output);
return $output;
}

so i thought I'd post my results here for anyone searching around this topic.

Any thoughts on a more reliable and less 'hacky' method than just calling the function with 'null' for the case where the checkbox is NOT checked ?

Thanks for your dilligence 🙂.
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