[snippet] test Plugin-UI checkboxes

[DarkPikachu]


$(document).ready(function() {
   var features = pb.plugin.get('plugin_name').settings.checkboxes;
   for (var i=0; i<features.length; i++) {
       var feature = features[i];
       switch (feature) {
           case "checkbox_value1": //do something here
           case "checkbox_value2": //do something else here
       };
   };
};



when I figured this out, I was hoping for something more efficient such as:
if (features.checkbox_value1.checked()) {};

[Chris]

Since the selected checkboxes are returned in an array of the values assigned to each checkbox (e.g. "checkbox_value2" in your given example) then if all you want is some way to return a boolean if a specific checkbox value is present in that array rather than iterate through the array you can use $.inArray.

if($.inArray("checkbox_value4",features) != -1){
//do something here
}

JQuery as it always does will first try using a native browser equivalent (Array.prototype.indexOf) if supported because a native solution is always faster than any javascript implementation, then only fallback to a pure javascript solution if not supported. Keep in mind however that this method does perform type matching as well so 1 === "1" would be false. If you encounter such a situation you can first cast to a known type or use the $.inArrayLoose method which I believe was added by the Proboards framework (not part of a jquery release)