SWIFT... how to loop through UIcollectionView, and getting values from the textfield into an array

Question

so i have given the textfields a tag of 10 i want to loop through the cells of the collection view and get the values of the textfield and store them into an array... here is some code.......

override func collectionView(collectionView: UICollectionView, didSelectItemAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) {

    let cell1 =  collectionView.cellForItemAtIndexPath(indexPath)

    let textbox1 = cell1?.viewWithTag(10) as? UITextField

    print(indexPath.row)

print(textbox1?.text)

}

if I select the cell the right text is shown, I will eventually have a button, when clicked id want it to loop though all of the cells and store it into an array(which i can do). i need a way to loop through the cells using the index path and storing the textfield data, any help would be much appreciated

Answer 1

Method 1:

But it only give visible Cells textField values

for item in self.collectionView!.visibleCells() as! [CollectionViewCell] {
        var indexpath : NSIndexPath = self.collectionView!.indexPathForCell(item as CollectionViewCell)!
        var cell : CollectionViewCell = self.collectionView!.cellForItemAtIndexPath(indexpath) as! CollectionViewCell
        println(cell.textField1.text)
    }

Method 2:

globally declare a mutableArray

var arrayCellsTextFields : NSMutableArray = []

in cellForItemAtIndexPath

cell.textField1.tag  = indexPath.row;
if(arrayCellsTextFields .containsObject(cell.textField1)==false)
{
   arrayCellsTextFields .addObject(cell.textField1)
}

Array contain ur textFields object, you can identify the textfield with its tag, i.e., cell.textField1.tag & indexPath.row are same

Method 3:

in cellForItemAtIndexPath

cell.textField1.tag  = indexPath.row;
cell.textField1.delegate = self;

using the textField delegate textFieldDidEndEditing u will get values in textField