Grouping controls about former HOT 9 CLOSED

Well this would be doable by fine tuning the checkboxes but since you might want a cleaner syntax I just pushed a little update to Former.
You can now do this to get your above example :

Former::checkboxes('value[]')->checkboxes('Value 01', 'Value 02')
Former::checkboxes('value')->grouped()->checkboxes('Value 01', 'Value 02') // Alternative syntax

Former recognizes the [] in the field and don't append iterators to the field's names.

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Yes, it works, but only if I have a simple list of values. And it sends an indexed array of 1.

I enabled push_checkboxes, to get the whole list without holes, but still I'd prefer to assign meaningful values to every checkbox. And grouped() fails when I pass an associative array of name=>value pairs: name isn't values[] anymore.

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Maybe I miss or mess something?

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Nope nope I think there is indeed a bug — or at least a lack of elegant syntax somewhere. I'm just kind of busy on the Laravel 4 branch for now but I'll use that opportunity to make checkables cleaner and more powerful.

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On the composer branch I'm working on a new way to fine-tune checkable elements. In the past you had to create a complex array on either the checkboxes() or radios() methods.

Now you'll be able to temporarly focus on one of the checkable and all following chained methods will only apply to this one. So you can fine-tune like this :

Former::checkboxes('value')->grouped()
  ->checkboxes('First', 'Second')
  ->on(0)->value('new first checkbox value')->label('1st')
  ->on(1)->check()->addClass('second-checkbox')

It's still a work in progress but what do you think of the syntax ? Would that help with the more complex checkboxes fields you're trying to create ?

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In my particular case I get all the data from the model, so I do no need to markup my form controls manually.

The syntax looks very flexible. I would definitely prefer it over a call of function with multiple arguments. Should we be concerned about debugging the long chained expressions? AFAIK, jQuery is considered to be hard to test because of similar syntax. What do you think?

And I still would like to be able to pass complex structured objects or arrays as an argument, or even json or yaml strings.

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Can the group list be supplied as an array or query. That would be awesome (I have one awful array that needs to be checkboxes with about 90 values!!!!, yeah its an old design that I cant really negotiate down.)

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I believe this issue can be closed?

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I think it can

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