[Zope] getting all fields from dynamic checkboxes

[Phillip Hutchings]

On Apr 4, 2005 9:00 AM, Dan E <dane1979 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> Has anyone found a way to get a list of boolean values from
> dynamically created checkboxes.
> I have created a bunch of checkboxes within a repeat loop like this:
> 
>              <input type="checkbox"
>                        class="noborder"
>                        name="cb_array:list:int"
>                        tal:attributes="tabindex tabindex/next;
>                        checked python:test(curr_prop, 'checked', None);">
> 
> but when I access the cb_array from my python script, I only get the
> checked values (and I can no longer match the values up with the
> checkbox they came from).

You need to keep a server-side list of the checkboxes and check which
ones aren't there. Web browsers don't send back checkboxes that aren't
checked - it's an HTML feature.

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