Re: Making radio button labels clickable?

More info: Just to make it clear, clicking either the Male or Female
label currently sets the male radio button as selected. Also, I'm
guessing my issue is probably in the options array...

On Oct 31, 4:29 pm, dave <davespa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Got quite lengthy when writing it, but essentially my question below
> is how to make radio button labels clickable. Pls read on...
>
> Quite new to Cakephp, and very pleased with results so far, but
> perplexed by radio buttons. More accurately, adding labels with the
> correct 'for' attribute to make them clickable alongside the correct
> radio button (ie where the radio button 'id' and the label 'for' are
> the same for each individual radio button).
>
> The form looks perfect, and indeed works perfectly if the user clicks
> the actual radio button - but I feel the label should be clickable (am
> I getting too anal here?)
>
> What I want to achieve:
>
> <input type="radio" value="1" class="list required" id="1"
> name="data[Member][gender]">
> <label for="1">Male</label>
> <input type="radio" value="2" class="list required" id="2"
> name="data[Member][gender]">
> <label for="2">Female</label>
>
> What I'm getting:
>
> <input type="radio" value="1" class="list required" id="MemberGender"
> name="data[Member][gender]">
> <label for="MemberGender">Male</label>
> <input type="radio" value="2" class="list required" id="MemberGender"
> name="data[Member][gender]">
> <label for="MemberGender">Female</label>
>
> (for info the controller is members_controller.php, using LoadModel to
> incorporate the Question model)
>
> So my question is how do I get the correct values in 'id' on the input
> and 'for' on the label. I know it should be simple, and have tried
> many many variations of what's going into my options array
> etc...........any help would be much appreciated.
>
> Here's my code as it stands:
>
> $options = array();
> $c = 0;
> while ($c < count($question['Reply'])) {
>         $options[$question['Reply'][$c]['id']] = $question['Reply'][$c]
> ['value'];
>         $c++;
>
> }
>
> echo $this->Form->input($question['Question']['name'], array(
>         'type' => 'radio',
>         'class' => 'list required',
>         'options' => $options
> ));
>
> All taken from two tables, questions and replies - related via
> question.id and reply.question_id
>
> Questions have many replies, so relationship in the Question model is:
>
>     var $hasMany = array(
>         'Reply' => array(
>             'className'     => 'Reply',
>             'foreignKey'    => 'question_id',
>             'dependent'=> true
>         )
>     );
>
> The output from doing a find all of a certain question_id (in this
> case gender) is:
> (
>     [0] => Array
>         (
>             [Question] => Array
>                 (
>                     [id] => 15
>                     [group_id] => 1
>                     [name] => gender
>                     [text] => Gender?
>                     [abbr_text] => Gender
>                 )
>
>             [Reply] => Array
>                 (
>                     [0] => Array
>                         (
>                             [id] => 1
>                             [question_id] => 15
>                             [value] => Male
>                         )
>
>                     [1] => Array
>                         (
>                             [id] => 2
>                             [question_id] => 15
>                             [value] => Female
>                         )
>
>                 )
>
>         )
>
> Sorry for length, hope someone can help. Thanks...D

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