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I am having some issues with adding a setting using the Perch API.

$this->add_setting('ui_checkout_billing_address', 'Collect Billing Information', 'checkbox',  'true', true );
$this->add_setting('ui_checkout_shipping_address', 'Collect Shipping Information', 'checkbox', 'false', false );

I have tried a bunch of different things but I still keep getting the same results. I try to set one of the check boxes to true or false but it always just shows ="1" as the value. Am I doing something wrong? I would like the value to say "true" if checked if not have it say "false" is that possible withing this setting area of the API?
Brandon Livengood

Brandon Livengood 1 points

  • 6 years ago
Robert Ketter

Robert Ketter 103 points

6 years ago

Brandon Livengood said:

I am having some issues with adding a setting using the Perch API.

$this->add_setting('ui_checkout_billing_address', 'Collect Billing Information', 'checkbox', 'true', true ); $this->add_setting('ui_checkout_shipping_address', 'Collect Shipping Information', 'checkbox', 'false', false );

I have tried a bunch of different things but I still keep getting the same results. I try to set one of the check boxes to true or false but it always just shows ="1" as the value. Am I doing something wrong? I would like the value to say "true" if checked if not have it say "false" is that possible withing this setting area of the API?

Brandon, I had this issue the other day. Ended up having to use a select field. Any value on a checkbox is true even if you put false as the value.
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

6 years ago

Checkboxes are binary. You can't have strings 'true' and 'false' because both of those are true to PHP.
Brandon Livengood

Brandon Livengood 1 points

6 years ago

Gotcha I figured out a solution thanks.