1.3.4

How are others dealing with the broken checkbox implementation?
Situation: I want a checkbox to have a default state, checked or
unchecked. To have the former:

echo $this->Form->input(
        'Model.foo',
        array(
                'label' => 'foo',
                'checked' => 1
        )
);

However, if the value in the DB is 0 the checkbox will be displayed
checked. It seems to me that the default should only be used if the
value in $data is empty or the key doesn't exist. Bug reports
explaining this have been ignored. How are others handling this
situation?

My workaround (bootstrap.php:

function getChecked($data = array(), $model = null, $field = null)
{
        if (sizeof($data) && !is_null($model) && !is_null($field))
        {
                return $data[$model][$field];
        }
        return false;
}

echo $this->Form->input(
        'Model.foo',
        array(
                'label' => 'foo',
                'checked' => getChecked($this->data, 'Poll', 'active')
        )
);

This is very similar to how I used to write non-Cake form code. But it
seems kind of dumb to need to do this, considering everything else
FormHelper provides.

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