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I have a form with about 60 checkbox pairs (different arrays), ideally they need to be output as checkboxes, not "yes" and "no". I found something similar in this post: http://www.chronoengine.com/forums/posts/f5/t94438/chronoforms-to-pdf-with-checkmark.html?hilit=checkbox

<?php if($_POST['sic_aziendale'] == "1") {
echo "<img src=\"/image/square.jpg\" />";
}else{
echo "Ffff";
}?>

1) I'm not sure if this would do it for ALL the checkboxes, or it's setup just for one specific field (ideally I'd like ALL checkboxes to display as actually checkboxes in the email, and prefer not to have to write code for them individually for all 60...)

2) I'm not sure where I would put it in the actions.

Thanks
Lydia

Hi Lydia,

What are the names and values of your checkbox groups? If you add a Debugger action to the form On Submit event, then check all the boxes and Submit the form you should see all this info in the Debugger output.

Are you sure that you want to use images in emails - some email readers will not download them by default? It might be better to use the UTF characters instead. See this StackOverFlow answer for an example.

Bob

Bob,

Thanks. I haven't tried setting it up yet, was trying to figure out how. This helps a lot thanks.

Lydia

Ok - I've tried this and it doesn't work (It's still outputing "Yes" or "No". I've attached my flow in setup.

This is the code in custom code (seriousill is the field ID (fieldname is seriousill[] ) of one of the yes/no checkbox form fields. The values are Yes | No):

<?php if($_POST['seriousill'] == "Yes") {
    echo " ☒";
    }else{
    echo "☐";
    }?>

Thanks,
L

Hi Lydia,

If you echo it from the Custom Code it will just be shown in the Thank You page somewhere. Please try this

<?php
if ( $form->data['seriousill'] == 'Yes' ) {
  $form->data['seriousill_chk'] = ' ☒';
} else {
  $form->data['seriousill_chk'] = ' ☐';
}
?>

Then put {seriousill_chk} in the Email template.

Bob

Hi Lydia,

It doesn't work with the characters in the PDF because the fonts used there probably don't include those characters. You can add extra fonts with fuller character sets if necessary. I think that we did that a couple of times before.

Bob