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I'm using nested Zend\Form\Fieldsets and Zend\Form\Collections, that provide an extremely comfortable way to map complex object structures to the form, in order to get a complete object (ready to be saved) from the form input.

The element I want to add now to my form should represent a list of possible protocols. In the database it's a simple table with columns id and name and the objects' structure can be described like Endpoint has Protocol[]. I defined a MultiCheckbox (s. below), but I have no idea, how to bind this element to a Protocol prototype. For a Fieldset it works via Fieldset\setObject(...).

How to get the form processing mechanism of Zend\Form creating objects from checkboxes?

Code so far:

EndpointFieldset.php

// namespace ...;
// use ....;
class EndpointFieldset extends Fieldset
{
    // ...
    public function init()
    {
        parent::init();
        $this->add(
            [
                'type' => 'multi_checkbox',
                'name' => 'protocols',
                'options' => [
                    'label' => _('protocols'),
                    'label_attributes' => [
                        'class' => 'col-md-1 protocol-field'
                    ],
                    'value_options' => $this->getValueOptions(),
                    'selected' => static::PROTOCOLS_DUMMY_VALUE
                ]
            ]
        );
    }
    // ...
    protected function getValueOptions()
    {
        $valueOptions = [];
        foreach (Protocol::PROTOCOLS as $key => $value) {
            $valueOptions[] = [
                'value' => $key,
                'label' => $value
            ];
        }
        return $valueOptions;
    }
}

myform.phml

use Zend\Form\View\Helper\FormMultiCheckbox;
echo $this->formMultiCheckbox($myFieldset->get('protocols'), FormMultiCheckbox::LABEL_PREPEND);

UPDATE

I found a workaround for the saving of a new entry: I simply complete the object provided by the form manually and make Protocol objects from the MultiCheckBox values. But when I pass complete object to the update form (in order to edit an existing entry), I get a notice and the checkboxes don't get built:

Notice: Object of class My\DataObject\Protocol could not be converted to int in /var/www/path/to/project/vendor/zendframework/zend-form/src/View/Helper/FormMultiCheckbox.php on line 202

My interpretation of this is, that the MultiCheckBox expects an array with values as primitive types (e.g. int). Instead it gets an array with Protocol objects and tries to use its values for in_array(...) -- and that cannot work.

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  • I'm seeing this same error in ZF3 with Doctrine2. Single-stepping through everything, the Doctrine\Hydrator is setting the 'value' attribute on the MultiCheckbox (not value_options) to an array of my entities. Not sure what I'm doing wrong, but I know some people recommend against using bind and just do hydration of the object and/or form manually in the controller. Maybe because this is such a pain to figure out. – Greg Bell Aug 02 '17 at 05:11

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