Thanks you

my attempt to sneak in tags didn’t work

I just bought the book you wrote with Brad and Ohz, and so far it is quite helpful, but the one thing that is not covered with regards to widget creation, is how to utilize multiple checkboxes that are dynamically created.

Basically I need to dynamically create a list of checkboxes, that will then be used to toggle the display of items on the frontend of the site.

I do not know how many items, or what any of their names will be.

Here’s an example from my own code I am trying to get working:
(I’ll leave out the bits that don’t apply – also please note that are supposed to represent the open and close p-h-p tags)

function form( $instance ) {

	$instance = wp_parse_args( (array) $instance, $defaults );

	echo ''.__('Display the following:', 'my_plugin');
	echo '';

	foreach ( $items as $item_type => $item ) {

		$label = isset( $item['title'] ) ? $item['title'] : $item_type ;

		$chk = 'item_display_' . $item_type;

		<input type="checkbox"
			name=" echo $this->get_field_name( $chk );"
			value=" echo $instance[$chk];"
			 echo checked( $instance[$chk], TRUE );/>

		 echo __($label, 'my_plugin');?>
	}

	echo '';

}

function update( $new_instance, $old_instance ) {

	$instance = $old_instance;
	$instance['title'] = strip_tags( $new_instance['title'] );

	foreach ( items as $item_type => $item ) {

		$chk = 'item_display_' . $item_type;
		$instance[$chk] = strip_tags( $new_instance[$chk] );

	}

	return $instance;
}

function widget( $args, $instance ) {

	extract($args);

	foreach ( items as $item_type => $item ) {

		$chk = 'item_display_' . $item_type;

		if ( $instance[$chk] == TRUE ) {
		// display item
		}
	}
}

the last part doesn’t even matter at this point because I am unable to even get the widget to save it’s values.

I’m only about half way through your book, but am pretty certain I’m not going to find the answer since the index only lists one reference to checked() on page 70.

So how? how? HOW? do you dynamically create checkboxes in a WP Widget?

Thank you in advance for your time, effort and talent.

im having trouble calling a filter from a widget. is it possible. does it run too late.

function widget( $args, $instance ) {
…
add_filter( ‘the_content’, ‘filter_the_content’);
..
}

//do whatever
function filter_the_content($content) {
$bacon = ‘ bacon is good’
return $bacon . $content;
}

sorry for posting this here. but seems like you are the widget man