Checkbox ? - Printable Version

Checkbox ? - Printable Version

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Checkbox ? - El Forum - 01-21-2011

[eluser]fuji2009[/eluser]
Hello guys, i don t understand how work checkbox i do it :

View :

Code:
<tr>

                <td>

                &lt;input type="checkbox" name="mycheck" value="&lt;?php echo set_value('mycheck');?&gt;" &gt; 

                &lt;/td>

                </tr>

                <tr><td>&lt;?php echo form_error('mycheck','<div class="error">','</div>');?&gt;</td></tr>

and my controller :

Code:
$this->form_validation->set_rules('mycheck', 'Mycheck', 'required');

But the error work when i validate without check the box but when i check the box error again..

can you help me ? thanks you

Checkbox ? - El Forum - 01-21-2011

[eluser]RedIgniter[/eluser]
I don't believe you need to set a value for the checkbox through php, just have it some value like accept and check if $this->input->post('mycheck') == "accept"

let me know if it worked