Rails - Jun 2005 - trouble with using checkboxes in forms

Can anybody point me in the right direction here please?

I have a form with a series of checkboxes like so:

<form action="staffmember/print" method="post>
Name: <%= staffmember.name <http://staffmember.name> %> <input
id="print[<%=
staffmember.id <http://staffmember.id> %>]"
name="print[<%staffmember.id<http://staffmember.id>%>]"
type="checkbox" value=""
/><br />
</form>

in my staffmember.rb controller, I would like to do something that gets all 
of the print[] array items in the posted form and use those id''s to do
a
select with, but I can''t get it to work - I thought the following
should
work but it doesnt:
@print = @params[:print]
@staffmembers = Staffmember.find(@params[:print])

I also tried using the rails <% check_box ...%> in the form but it also 
outputted a hidden field with the same names and id''s as the
cehckboxes,
which didnt see right

any clues please?


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Robbie:

I am assuming that you just want to send back the items which are checked...

If so, try this:
<input name="print[]" value="<%= staffmember.id %>"
type="checkbox" />


When the form posts you will have access to the checked values in
@params[''print''] which should be an array.

Then the Staffmember.find(@params[''print'']) should work
fine...

At least the above worked when I did it for something very similar...


aw

p.s. if it doesn''t work, I''m still pretty new to this as well
;)

On 6/14/05, Robbie Shepherd
<robbie.shepherd-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Can anybody point me in the right direction here please?
>  
>  I have a form with a series of checkboxes like so:
>  
>  <form action="staffmember/print" method="post>
>  Name: <%= staffmember.name %> <input id="print[<%=
staffmember.id %>]"
> name="print[<%= staffmember.id %>]"
type="checkbox" value="" /><br />
>  </form>
>  
>  in my staffmember.rb controller, I would like to do something that gets
all
> of the print[] array items in the posted form and use those id''s
to do a
> select with, but I can''t get it to work - I thought the following
should
> work but it doesnt:
>  @print = @params[:print]
>  @staffmembers = Staffmember.find(@params[:print])
>  
>  I also tried using the rails <% check_box ...%> in the form but it
also
> outputted a hidden field with the same names and id''s as the
cehckboxes,
> which didnt see right
>  
>  any clues please?
>  
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