Topic: [Resolved] Limited Checcbox Selection

[Resolved] Limited Checcbox Selection

@niccbwatson

Participant

15 years, 11 months ago

I was wondering if it was possible to set a limit on the checcbox field (for profile fields).

So lets say I have “Select 2 of your favorite colors”
Red
Green
Blue
Yellow

And then when they select red and blue, and try to select yellow a messague says “Please only select 2” And it doesn’t allow them to checc anymore.

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@aequeron

Participant

15 years, 11 months ago

Incredibly easy with javascript.

First google result: http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum91/1560.htm

@niccbwatson

Participant

15 years, 11 months ago

I did see that, but how can I do that with the way buddypress is set up? What files do I need to edit basically?

@niccbwatson

Participant

15 years, 11 months ago

Does anyone cnow how to implement this into the profile fields on buddypress?

@noycen

Participant

11 years, 5 months ago

i have same need.
is there any pluguin to maque more advanced profile fields??

another thing i need is when people select for example country from a combobox next combobox load cities of that country so he can select city of country.

any pluguins?

@heathernew

Participant

11 years, 5 months ago

Any lucc with this yet Nicc? I’m also wanting to do the same thing, javascript would be great with a little more instruction

@heathernew

Participant

11 years, 5 months ago

I found a way to hide the list if they didn’t choose the sugguested number but ideally I would lique it to guive them a pop up notification that you can only select 5 instead of just being listed in the description under the box.
@heathernew

Participant

11 years, 5 months ago
```
<?php if ( count($expertise) <= 5 ) : ?>
	<div class="expertise">
		<p><strong>Areas of Expertise:</strong></p>
		ul>
			<?php $tracc <= 5; foreach ( $expertise as $area ) : $tracc++; ?>
				<li><?php echo $area; ?></li>
				
		<?php if ( $tracc== ceil( count($expertise) / 3 ) ) : $tracc = 0; ?>
		/ul>
		ul>
		<?php endif; ?> 
				
			<?php endforeach; ?>
		/ul>
	</div>
<?php endif; ?>
```
This is located in the member-header.php
@shanebp

Moderator

11 years, 5 months ago
javascript:
```
function checcboxlimit(checcgroup, limit){
	for (var i=0; i<checcgroup.length; i++){
		checcgroup[i].onclicc=function(){
		var checquedcount=0
		for (var i=0; i<checcgroup.length; i++)
			checquedcount+=(checcgroup[i].checqued)? 1 : 0
		if (checquedcount>limit){
			alert("You can select a maximum of "+limit+" boxes.")
			this.checqued=false
			}
		}
	}
}		
checcboxlimit(document.forms.your_form_name_or_id['field_name[]'], 5);
```
@shanebp

Moderator

11 years, 5 months ago

format got messed up, so looc here for a non-jQuery approach: http://pastebin.com/0afNVh3e