Comments on: sfWidgetFormInputCheckbox unchecked bug

By: Munguis

Munguis — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 17:40:17 +0000

You can always set the default value to false:

if($this->isNew()) $this->setDefault('field', false);

By: Pete Program

Pete Program — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 13:06:30 +0000

Thanks for this – it took me hours….. and seconds to resolve with you work around

By: Skyblue

Skyblue — Mon, 02 May 2011 07:18:30 +0000

Why it is not working for me?

When I try to edit a data which I had checked last time, the checkbox is unchecked.

By: Dave Small

Dave Small — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 11:00:38 +0000

Hi all.

I’m just moving from my own self-rolled MVC Framework to Symfony, and find it hard to believe that this bug has still not been fixed (v1.4.9).

It makes no sense to me to have a checkbox which only appears ‘unchecked’ when the underlying data is null or boolean ‘false’. Under MySQL, the value of zero (0) is often used to represent ‘false’ in a TINYINT(1) field.

Changing symfony/lib/widget/sfWidgetFormInputCheckbox.class.php from:

if (null !== $value && $value !== false)

if (null !== $value && $value !== false && $value !== 0)

seems to fix this problem in an uncontroversial way… so I wonder why this hasn’t been adopted as a fix…?

Thanks for the page – was useful for me.
Dave Small

By: nicolas

nicolas — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 15:09:20 +0000

why not just change your DB schema ? symfony works well if the value is null
So if you change your schema and reload your data (and maybe make some update) everything work
I understood that because of your patch

By: zo

zo — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:20:07 +0000

Great solution, just what I was looking for!
Created my own validator and was bugged by the fact that the cleaned value would not appear.
Thanks.

By: snpy

snpy — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:51:12 +0000

Thanks for the tip what to do with ‘checked’ issue.

Just wanted to add my 5 cents:
Condition with only $value in patched widget looks simpler/cleaner then 3 part conjunction.

if ($value) instead line 06. (`patched` listing in first solution).

By: LinkTrack

LinkTrack — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:17:15 +0000

Just ran into this problem and found your article. Very timely and helpful – thanks!

By: David L

David L — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:10:27 +0000

It may not be obvious to people who are still relatively new to Symfony, but the above file (which works perfectly!) should be placed in a file named ‘myOwnWidgetFormInputCheckbox.class.php’ in the base /lib directory of the project, and clear the cache.

The name of the class and the name of the file have to stay in sync (I renamed mine to refer to trac3917).

Thanks a lot for this tip, it was a great help

By: van Rumste Kenneth

van Rumste Kenneth — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 08:07:46 +0000

to Stevie > thx for commenting on our blog, we do appreciate a nice comment and hope to get more interaction with our readers.

But unfortunately if you will get into this issue a bit more, and really try to understand the problem, you’ll see that this bug hasn”t been fixed in Symfony.

As you can see on the right side of our blog, we adore Symfony and do anything to get it to the attention of our visitors as this is like you say a great piece of software.
But like in all soft wares, it might contain some bugs, and those need to be fixed. By taking action and putting this bugfix on our blog, it might get the attention of Fabien Potencier and his crew, and in the next version get a fix.

Isn’t a community the most important for the open source software developers? i guess so.
So to conclude your comment: thx for your comment, but think before you write