GF_Field_Radio

Introduction

The GF_Field_Radio class extends the GF_Field class, also known as the Field Object. This class is responsible for determining how the Radio Button field is rendered when the form is displayed and how its value is handled during and after form submission. This class also handles the Product, Product Option, and Shipping fields rendering when the field is a radio button.

Settings and Properties

Settings control what options are available to the admin user when configuring the field in the form editor. Gravity Forms includes many built-in settings such as Field Label, Field Description, Choices, Conditional Logic, etc. In addition to built-in settings, custom settings can also be developed. For more information on how to develop custom settings and how to associate settings to a field, visit the GF_Field page.

Properties contain the values specified by the settings and generally are part of the Field Object.

The properties may be retrieved by accessing the Field Object as follows:

// Get the field.
$field = GFAPI::get_field( $form_or_id, $field_id );

// Get the admin label.
$admin_label = $field->adminLabel;

Settings

SettingDescription
admin_label_settingControls whether the Admin Field Label setting appears.
choices_settingDetermines whether the Choices setting displays. This section allows you to create different radio button selections and set associated values to each one. It also allows you to choose from a pre-defined set of data that may be used to create the radio buttons. Without this section, the radio button selections are limited to “First Choice”, “Second Choice” and “Third Choice” and may not be changed in the editor.
conditional_logic_field_settingControls whether the Enable Conditional Logic setting appears.
css_class_settingControls whether the Custom CSS Class setting displays, allowing a custom CSS class to be applied to the field.
description_settingControls whether the Description setting appears, allowing a description for the field to be displayed.
duplicate_settingControls whether the No Duplicates setting displays within the Rules section. This controls whether the same value may exist more than once in the database. The Rules setting must be active for this to display.
error_message_settingControls whether the Custom Validation Message setting appears, allowing a custom validation message to be defined.
label_settingControls whether the Field Label setting appears, allowing the label to be changed.
other_choice_settingDetermines whether the Enable “other” choice setting displays. When checked, this creates a final text input labeled Other and allows the user to enter their own text.
prepopulate_field_settingControls whether the Allow field to be populated dynamically setting appears.
rules_settingControls whether the Rules section displays, enabling the Required option.
visibility_settingControls whether the Visibility setting displays, allowing the option to restrict visibility to Everyone or Admin Only.

Properties

Below is a listing of the properties inherited from the parent class and ones specific to the field.

PropertyTypeDescription
adminLabelstringThe label to be used on admin pages instead of the label, useful for fields with long labels.
adminOnlybooleanDetermines whether the field is visible to the user submitting the form, or only visible in the admin.
allowsPrepopulatebooleanDetermines if the field values can be dynamically populated. Default is false.
choicesarrayAn array containing the individual properties for each radio button item. See Choices Properties below.
conditionalLogicarrayAn associative array containing the conditional logic rules. See the Conditional Logic Object for more details.
cssClassstringThe custom CSS class or classes to be added to the input tag for the field.
defaultValuestringThe radio button to be selected. This must match a value for one of the items. This is only available when the radio button is a product option field.
descriptionstringThe field description.
descriptionPlacementstringThe placement of the field description. The description may be placed above or below the field inputs. If the placement is not specified, the description placement setting for the Form Layout is used.
enableChoiceValuebooleanIndicates whether the Show Values option within the Choices section of the editor is checked.
enableOtherChoicebooleanIndicates whether the Enable “other” choice option is checked in the editor.
enablePricebooleanUsed when the radio button is a product option field, in which case it is set to true. If not associated with a product, it is false.
errorMessagestringThe custom error message to be displayed if the field fails validation.
formIdintegerThe form ID.
idintegerThe field ID.
inputNamestringThe parameter name used when dynamically populating the field.
inputTypestringUsed when the field has a sub-type. For instance, when the radio button is a Product, Product Option, or Shipping field, the type is set to product, option, or shipping respectively, and the inputType is set to radio. When the field is created, the type is initially set using the type property. If inputType is not empty, the inputType property is used to create the field instead.
isRequiredbooleanMarking the field as required will prevent the form from being submitted if the user does not enter a value. Default is false.
labelstringThe field label that will be displayed on the form and on the admin pages.
noDuplicatesbooleanDetermines if the value entered by the user may already exist in the database.
productFieldintegerThe ID of the product field to which the radio button is associated. This is used when the radio button is an option associated with a product.
typestringThe field type. It is normally radio, unless the radio buttons are a Product, Product Option, or Shipping field. The type is set to product when a Product field, option when a Product Option field, and shipping when a Shipping field. The inputType is set to radio.

Choices Properties

Each item in the choices array contains the following properties:

PropertyTypeDescription
textstringThe text that is displayed.
valuestringThe value that is used for the radio button when the form is submitted.
isSelectedbooleanIndicates whether the radio button item is selected.
isOtherChoicebooleanIndicates the radio button item is the “Other” choice.
pricestringUsed when the radio button is a Product, Product Option, or Shipping field and contains the item price.

Below is what the output would look like:

$choices = array(
	array(
		'text'       => 'First Choice',
		'value'      => 'one',
		'isSelected' => false,
		'price'      => '$5.00', // Only populated if a product, product option or shipping field.
	),
	array(
		'text'       => 'Second Choice',
		'value'      => 'two',
		'isSelected' => true,
		'price'      => '',
	),
	array(
		'text'       => 'Third Choice',
		'value'      => 'three',
		'isSelected' => false,
		'price'      => '',
	),
	array(
		'text'          => 'Other',
		'value'         => 'gf_other_choice',
		'isSelected'    => false,
		'isOtherChoice' => true,
	),
);

Hooks

The following hooks are located in GF_Field_Radio:

Source Code

The source code is located in includes/fields/class-gf-field-radio.php in the Gravity Forms folder of your site’s plugins directory.