Check Box Form Element
To add the check box element to the form you need to create a new node and add it to the <fields> node of the configuration file, with the <frontend_type>checkbox</frontend_type>
To open a node for the new element, decide how you’d like that element to be called… Let’s just call it checkbox_example.
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<checkbox_example>*** the rest of the code would go here ***</ checkbox _example> |
After you’ve created a node for checkbox_example, you can add its label and form element type. To have the checkbox_example form element check box, you would need to add the <frontend_type>select</frontend_type> in the checkbox_example node, like so:
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<checkbox_example> <frontend_type>checkbox</frontend_type></checkbox_example> |
Assuming that you’d like to have the label explaining the user what he needs to enter, you’d want to add the label to the checkbox_example node, like so:
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<checkbox_example> <label> Example of the check box </label> <frontend_type>checkbox</frontend_type></checkbox_example> |
And optionally, if you’d like this form field to be required, you’d want to add the required option to the checkbox_example node like so:
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<checkbox_example> <label>Example of the check box </label> <frontend_type>checkbox</frontend_type> <required>true</required></checkbox_example> |
And it would produce this:
There is no limit to the number of form elements, or the number of form element type in a form. You can, for example have multiple textareas or multiple checkboxes combined in one form. You can also combine elements and order them in a form as you’d like. You can set which elements are required ( if any ) and add comments and/or labels to the form elements as you please, and you can name the form elements however it fits you best.
