JQuery help with checkboxes and their values
<p>I am very new to javascript and JQuery but I managed to get my first ajax script almost working 100%. Maybe today will be my lucky day and I can finish this up. :)</p>

<p>Let me give you guys a sample of each file so you know what is what. I believe that my last try at figuring this out was not successful because I was confusing these files. They are all js and have the exact same syntax.</p>

<p>What I have are 2 javascript files. One is called ajax.js and has the folling syntax. it calls ajax.php.</p>

<pre><code>$("#admEmpID").bind("change", function(e){
  $.getJSON("ajax.php?e=" + $("#admEmpID").val(),
        function(data)
        {
          $.each(data, function(i,item)
          {
            if (item.field == "admEmpStatus")
            {
              // ?? radio buttons
            }
            ............. etc
</code></pre>

<p><br><br><br>
The next file I have is this script and is called admEmp.js. I <em>think</em> that this one is for my form validation.</p>

<pre><code>$(function() {
  $('.error').hide();
  $('input.text-input').css({backgroundColor:"#FFFFFF"});
  $('input.text-input').focus(function(){
    $(this).css({backgroundColor:"#FFDDAA"});
  });
  $('input.text-input').blur(function(){
    $(this).css({backgroundColor:"#FFFFFF"});
  });

  $(".admEmpBtn").click(function() {
     // validate and process form
     // first hide any error messages
    $('.error').hide();

      var admEmpID = $("input#admEmpID").val();
    var admEmpStatus = $("input[name='admEmpStatus']:checked").val();

     $.ajax({
  type: "POST",...............etc.
</code></pre>

<p>What I would like to do is toggle my checkboxes according to the database results. If the result from the database is = 1 then the checkbox should be checked otherwise it should be unchecked.</p>

<p>These scripts that I have in place now will populate my textboxes from the values in the database so for someone like myself who has no idea what is happening with JQuery and its innerworkings, it is only natural for me to assume that the checkboxes will also be filled with the on/off values. Maybe I am incorrect. The last time I posted on SO looking for help, a guy mentioned that I needed to toggle the results with server side code. Is this correct or will JQuery do it for me?</p>

<p>I also have radio buttons in addition to the checkboxes that I need to show the values for as well. Just as a side note, the checkboxes are not grouped; they each have their own value.</p>

<p>Thanks for any help you guys can provide.</p>

<p><hr /></p>

<p>OK. "dz" said that I should put ('#admCustRptDly').attr('checked', true); into my script to see if that will allow me to see the checked attribute but it doesn't. The database has a 0 for that checkbox so I sould be seeing no checkmark. I put that into the ajax.js file. Here is what it looks like now.</p>

<pre><code>    else if (item.field == "admCustRptDly" &amp;&amp; item.value == "1")
    {
    //  $("checkbox#admCustRptDly").attr("checked", "checked");
      $('#admCustRptDly').attr('checked', true);
    }
</code></pre>

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<p>Here is what I did that makes me think that I may be making some progress. I put an alert inside of the condition and I do NOT get an alert. If I go to a customer that does have the db value set to 1, then I do get the alert. That's more than I was getting before. But again, I am still seeing the checkmark even though the data in the db = '0'</p>
