Populate checkboxes from Eloquent relation about former HOT 5 CLOSED

Well in theory Former would automatically populate the field with the roles if it matches the relation's name. That being said, I don't know how checkboxes handle the given value so I'm gonna take a look at it. But ideally yeah you wouldn't need more than this :

Former::populate($user)
Former::checkboxes('roles')

from former.

This should work now on the agnostic branch – can you try it out see if it works as intended for you ?

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I've got the agnostic branch, and the same code as above. My $roles array is:

Array (
  [0] => Array (
    [label] => master
    [checked] => 1
  )
  [1] => Array (
    [label] => administrator
    [checked] => 
  )
)

The output I get is:

<div class="control-group">
  <label class="control-label">Roles</label>
  <div class="controls">
    <label for="1" class="checkbox">
      <input type="hidden" name="1" value="" id="1">
      <input id="1" type="checkbox" name="1" value="1">Master
    </label>
  </div>
</div>

So, two issues:

1. It only seems to be outputting values that are set (i.e. the "Administrator" entry didn't output)
2. The checkbox name should be roles[] not 1

Not sure if the setting of unchecked_value is going to affect things (can that be turned on/off on a per-checkbox basis?)

Thanks!

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I realize this post is quite old, but have you ever found a solution for this. I am trying to do the same thing with Roles & Permissions. Show the entire list of permissions and then just those checked that are associated with the given role. Thanks for sharing if you have.

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You have to add [] to the fieldname and pass an array with Key,Value to the function

Former::checkboxes('roles[]',"label",Role::all()->lists('name','id')->toArray());

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