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I am using webform module to build forms. Initially i created a simple form with few components like text-field, text-area, radios, check boxes , Drop down list and submitted it.

When i checked the database, I found that the module is storing type "select" for the components radio, check boxes and lists in table name "webform_component". I want to know how can we differentiate them.

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While creating the form i choose the following parameters

Gender ----> Radio

Range ----> List

Hobbies----> Checkbox

But in the table it was shown as "select" for all the fields

Can anyone suggest the way to find out ?

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the webform_component table also has an extra column you've cropped out.

It's SQL column help description is:

Additional information unique to the display or processing of this component.

A select can simply be rendered many ways -- I believe the display settings for the "selectable options" used in rendering a radio, list or checkbox are in that column.

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  • Sorry i dint mentioned in my post, I have examined extras column, the only differentiation i observed is for a radio it stores b:0 and b:o for checkbox b:1 and b:0 for list b:0 and b:1, But i am expecting something which is easier to be differed. Hope you understand my point Thanks for your valuable reply
    – Ramaraju.d
    Mar 30, 2013 at 5:49
  • hehe ... why would you "expect" something easy !? a Webform is not a core drupal form built with the core FAPI. The webform maintainers long ago built their own form storage, and description "api". This is the result of that. Please read drupal.org/node/325766 and you will see that radio,list and checkbox in webform components all come from select in their API. It does look like that DB column and data derives how it is shown. You may have a better time differenietating them in a hook_form_alter after webform has done some initial processing to load them up ...
    – tenken
    Mar 30, 2013 at 14:46

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