Checkbox group and url in a mail

Hello,
I will wish to send mail urls from a checkbox group.
I did some tests with a simple checkbox with this syntax:
Field value: http://www.MyURL.com
message content : <a href="{checkbox1}">{checkbox1}</a>
Result OK (email with active link)

But I have a problem with the checkbox group
I added a Handle Arrays to send multiple options checkbox_group

checkbox_group options:
http://www. MyURL_1.com=My LINK 1
http://www. MyURL_2.com=My LINK 2

If I use this syntax in the message content:
<a href="{checkbox_group1}">{checkbox_group1}</a>
I do not give 2 urls but a single url, and a mixture of MyUrl_1 MyUrl2 ???

<a href="http://www. MyURL_1.com, http://www. MyURL_2.com">http://www. MyURL_1.com, http://www. MyURL_2.com</a>

instead of

<a href="http://www. MyURL_1.com">http://www. MyURL_1.com</a>, <a href="http://www. MyURL_2.com">http://www. MyURL_2.com</a>

If someone has a solution or an idea of the problem?

Best Regards

Thank you

Hi g128,

ChronoForms isn't clever enough to know that you want to create a series of <a> tags from the form data. You have to give it a helping hand with some Custom Code.

Also I suspect that the http:// in the option values may be causing hiccups.

I suggest that you change your options to be like this.

www.MyURL_1.com=My LINK 1
www.MyURL_2.com=My LINK 2

and make sure that the checkbox group has an array name ending in [] so you get ll the values returned e.g. links[]

In the On Submit event add a Custom Code action with code like this:

<?php
if ( empty($form->data['links']) || !is_array($form->data['links']) ) {
  $form->data['link_list'] = '';
  return false;
}
$links = array();
foreach ( $form->data['links'] as $l ) {
  $links[] = "<a> href='http://{$l}' >{$l}</a>":
}
$form->data['link_list'] = implode("\n", $links);
?>

Then add {link_list} to the Email template.

Bob

Hi Bob,

Your solution works perfectly !

I fixed the code (there was 2 small problems line 8)

  $links[] = "<a href='http://{$l}' >{$l}</a>";

I added a <br> for clarity

<?php
if ( empty($form->data['links']) || !is_array($form->data['links']) ) {
  $form->data['link_list'] = '';
  return false;
}
$links = array();
foreach ( $form->data['links'] as $l ) {
  $links[] = "<a href='http://{$l}' >{$l}</a><br>";
}
$form->data['link_list'] = implode("\n", $links);
?>

Thank you very much it helped me to understand a little more running ChronoForms which is very powerful tool.

I get the following results by mail:
www.MyURL_1.com
www.MyURL_2.com

The links are active, perfect, I try now to display the titles of the options instead of the links.
My LINK 1
My LINK 2

Question : When there are several "checkbox group", should multiply Custom code?

NB: I deleted the "Handle Arrays" problematic..

thank you

HI g128,

Please see this FAQ for setting the option titles.

You only need the Custom code for Checkbox groups where there you want special formatting for the results, you can get a plain list option1, option2, . . . using the Handle Arrays action.

Bob