Multiple select functionality for profile module

In the function profile_form_profile() for the case 'selection' need to initialize the array options.
It would look something like this

      case 'selection':
      	$options = array();
        $options[-1] = '--';

Without this if a catagory has more than one select list each list builds apoun the previous one.

Patch doesn't apply anymore.

Here's an updated patch that should apply cleanly on a 4.6.3 tree.

Note that we had to do this request to have the thing work at all:

ALTER TABLE `profile_fields` ADD `multiple` INT( 2 ) DEFAULT '0';

Oups! Sorry I messed with the title. :)

patches should be against head or else CVS team will not review.

Trying again, this time against HEAD. Note: I haven't tested the patch, but it should work provided the API changes in form functions didn't change associated functionality and I didn't get confused by the new stuff. :)

I'm sorry I don't have time to test this right now, but at least we have something to work with...

This line in the patch seemed to be causing a crash on my 4.7 setup:

+ $form['fields']['multiple'] = array('#type' => 'checkbox', '#title' => t('Multiple select'), '#default_value' => $edit['multiple'], t('Allows users to select more than one item in this field.'));

I added '#Description' =>

+ $form['fields']['multiple'] = array('#type' => 'checkbox', '#title' => t('Multiple select'), '#default_value' => $edit['multiple'], '#Description' => t('Allows users to select more than one item in this field.'));

and the crashing ended, and it works fine and dandy.

What I am trying to do is much the same as what you have done here, but I want the multiple select's interface to the user, to be a set of checkboxes in two columns. I'm going to keep trying on my profile.module to do this, and if I actually succeed, I'll upload the patch file. If not, which at my level of cluelessness seems likely, then consider this a loser feature request from a dude who is not contributing yet.

As checkboxes, already exists.
http://drupal.org/node/33044

doesn't apply cleanly

Fixed patch so it applies cleanly to today's version of profile.module in CVS (version 1.132).

sigh - setting to drupal6. someone please resubmit this :)

lets close this and continue at http://drupal.org/node/33044 since that has a working patch for 4.7

Is it possible to deliver a patched version of profile.module? Plenty of frustrated hours for those who have to install "patch" and fail several times would not be necessary. Thank you, mike

I absolutely need multiselect in my profiles, and for a very legitimate reason: users are supposed to select the languages they speak, the music styles they like, the interests they have from a pre-defined list (to keep it translateable) and I'm not going to create hundreds upon hundreds of checkboxes for that. So my heartfelt thanks to those who have worked on a solution here!

One more issue: with the patch I applied, i18n_profile can't translate the items from a multiselect selectbox anymore. I need to retain that functionality. Is anybody up to patching i18n_profile for this functionality? I can offer a small compensation, contact me.

FYI, I for those following here... I just posted a related patch that uses a "checkbox group" instead of a multiple select field. The patch offers similar functionality to those offered here.

If the checkbox group works, we could easily modify the patch for multiselect boxes as well.

http://drupal.org/node/33044#comment-1134877

Thanks

I also need multiselect functionality in profile module. Any updates?

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I have resorted to looking at http://drupal.org/project/profile_checkboxes