https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/checkboxes-to-arrays Gravity Support Forums Topic: Checkboxes to Arrays en-US Mon, 20 Apr 2026 06:33:12 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/checkboxes-to-arrays#post-98418 Mon, 03 Dec 2012 15:41:21 +0000 Chris Hajer 98418@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I did not know ACF had an "update_field" function like that. If you are using the ACF plugin, that's a good way to do it.</p> <p><a href="http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/</a> </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/checkboxes-to-arrays#post-98367 Mon, 03 Dec 2012 12:41:55 +0000 komododigital 98367@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>You can use a GF hook and an ACF function to achieve this. Not glamorous, but works...</p> <pre><code>add_action(&quot;gform_post_submission_4&quot;, &quot;acf_post_submission&quot;, 10, 2); function acf_post_submission ($entry, $form) { $post_id = $entry[&quot;post_id&quot;]; $values = get_post_custom_values(&quot;[GF custom field name]&quot;, $post_id); update_field(&quot;[ACF field key]&quot;, $values, $post_id); }</code></pre> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/checkboxes-to-arrays#post-76805 Sat, 22 Sep 2012 00:16:53 +0000 Chris Hajer 76805@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>We can't give advice on modifying the plugin files. You would have to look through the code yourself and see what is possible. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/checkboxes-to-arrays#post-76720 Fri, 21 Sep 2012 13:45:47 +0000 KindraPB 76720@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>anybody have any ideas to somehow go in and edit the php so that gravity forms saves checkbox values in an array instead of as separate rows in the database? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/checkboxes-to-arrays#post-76319 Wed, 19 Sep 2012 12:37:52 +0000 KindraPB 76319@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>That might work. What I am trying to do is use the gform_save_field_value function to grab the selected values of a checkbox before anything is written to the database. Then I can add them to an array and post the array as the field value instead of individual rows for the same field with its individual values. I am a bit of a beginner and not sure how to grab the fields multiple selected values and add them to an array. </p> <p>Any more help would be appreciated! </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/checkboxes-to-arrays#post-76315 Wed, 19 Sep 2012 12:02:35 +0000 Dana Cobb 76315@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>This is not built-in to Gravity Forms, it would require custom coding.</p> <p>You could add a hidden field on the form and use code in the gform_after_submission (<a href="http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Gform_after_submission" rel="nofollow">http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Gform_after_submission</a>) hook to update the hidden field with whatever you need. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/checkboxes-to-arrays#post-76086 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 13:11:24 +0000 KindraPB 76086@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Is there a way to save selected checkbox values to an array in the database row such as:</p> <p>a:2:{i:0;s:9:"Breakfast";i:1;s:19:"Handicap Access"}</p> <p>instead of saving an individual row and meta_id for each value? </p>