How to make UITableview with Textfield in swift? - ios

Question

I want to make a table view with textfields in each cell,
I have a custom class in a swift file:
import UIKit
public class TextInputTableViewCell: UITableViewCell{
#IBOutlet weak var textField: UITextField!
public func configure(#text: String?, placeholder: String) {
textField.text = text
textField.placeholder = placeholder
textField.accessibilityValue = text
textField.accessibilityLabel = placeholder
}
}
Then in my ViewController I have
func tableView(tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) -> UITableViewCell{
let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier("TextInputCell") as! TextInputTableViewCell
cell.configure(text: "", placeholder: "Enter some text!")
text = cell.textField.text
return cell
}
That works well:
But when the user enters text in the textfield and press the button I want to store the strings of each textfield in an array.
I have tried with
text = cell.textField.text
println(text)
But it prints nothing like if it was empty
How can I make it work?

Answer 1

In your view controller become a UITextFieldDelegate
View Controller
class ViewController: UIViewController, UITableViewDataSource, UITableViewDelegate, UITextFieldDelegate {
var allCellsText = [String]()
func tableView(tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier("cell", forIndexPath: indexPath) as! CustomTableViewCell
cell.theField.delegate = self // theField is your IBOutlet UITextfield in your custom cell
cell.theField.text = "Test"
return cell
}
func textFieldDidEndEditing(textField: UITextField) {
allCellsText.append(textField.text!)
println(allCellsText)
}
}
This will always append the data from the textField to the allCellsText array.

Answer 2

this method is init the cell,u have not model to save this datas,so
text = cell.textfield.text
is nothing!
you can init var textString in viewcontroller,an inherit UITextFieldDelegate
optional func textFieldDidEndEditing(_ textField: UITextField)
{
textString = _textField.text
}
optional func textFieldShouldReturn(_ textField: UITextField) -> Bool{
return true
}
and cell.textField.text = textString

Answer 3

create a variable
var arrayTextField = [UITextField]()
after this in your func tableView(tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) -> UITableViewCell{}
add
self.arrayTextField.append(textfield)
before returning cell, after this to display the values using
for textvalue in arrayTextField{
println(textvalue.text)
}

Answer 4

So here is a way to do it using the suggestion of having a textfield array. It uses the tag of the textfield to ensure it does not get added multiple times when you scroll.
// Assumes that you have a label and a textfield as a part of you tableViewCell
func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
guard let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCell(withIdentifier: "cell") as? BodyStatsTableViewCell else {
return UITableViewCell()
}
cell.rowLabel.text = bodyTableArray[indexPath.row].rowTitle
let tagValue = indexPath.row + 100
var newRow = true
for textvalue in arrayTextField{
if textvalue.tag == tagValue {
newRow = false
}
}
if newRow {
cell.rowTextField.tag = tagValue
self.arrayTextField.append(cell.rowTextField)
cell.rowTextField.text = bodyTableArray[indexPath.row].rowValue
}
return cell
}
// And then you cam get the values when you want to save with where tag - 100 will be the array index value to update
for textvalue in arrayTextField{
print(textvalue.text)
}