Get dropdown / checkbox / multiselect field values on frontend submit

Question

I would like to allow registered users to submit entries to sections. The documentation didn't mention how to get the values and labels of dropdown / checkbox / multiselect fields to show them as options on the submitting page. I can't use the entry variable because the entry is not saved yet.

Answer 1

You can get info about your fields using craft.fields.getFieldByHandle(). That will include a settings property, which will be an array of the field type’s settings.

The actual settings available will differ depending on the field type, but Dropdown, Checkboxes, and Multi-select fields all have the same one: options. So in each of their cases, here’s how you would loop through the options:

{% set field = craft.fields.getFieldByHandle('myFieldHandle') %}
{% for opt in field.settings.options %}
    <label>
        <input name="fields[myFieldHandle][]" type="checkbox" value="{{ opt.value }}">
        {{ opt.label }}
    </label>
{% endfor %}