Re: QuickForm - dynamically add/del form elements question

Bertrand> We are planning to add a "repeat" element someday in Bertrand> QuickForm. Along with the new Controller, it will make these Bertrand> tasks easier. For now, you have to handle it manually, by Bertrand> watching which request are done in the form. Ok, do you have any pointers on how I would do this? >> I've got my basic test script up on: >> >> cotarium.org/AAS/john/test/QF-refs.php Bertrand> URL is not available for me. http://jfs.ecotarium.org/AAS/john/test/QF-refs.php Hmmm... this works for me from a couple of different places. Can you give me the IP address you're coming from? I'll check the logs and see what's up. >> 1. How can I bind a button to clear a specific text element? Esp >> when the text element and button are in a group together? And >> when I don't know how many items there will be in the group? Bertrand> If by clearing you mean set to empty string, then you will Bertrand> need to use javascript onclick event. Set it on your button Bertrand> by adding an onclick attribute. Eventually, make a function Bertrand> that takes the element to be cleared as parameter and have Bertrand> your button call that function. Thanks for the hint, I'll do this since I've seen some examples of this already and it should be easy to do. >> 2. Now that I know how to do that part, how do I create/delete >> arbitrary elements in a form? Basically, I'll just have a special >> group (the base one probably) which allows you to add an new >> element. Then each text element will have two buttons, one to >> clear an entry, another to delete it. Though clearing could be >> considered deleting of course! >> >> So far my code does allow me to create a number of entry fields, and I >> can get back data from them all (which is farther than I got with >> oohforms from phplib-7.2d) but I'm stumped on the button interaction >> unfortunately. Bertrand> You are trying to do some datagrid stuff. This is rather Bertrand> complex to do, with or without QuickForm. QuickForm can help Bertrand> you there by dynamically generating the fields you need on Bertrand> demand. Can QuickForm allow me to dynamically delete entries? Or do I need to download, install and learn the datagrid package too? Sigh... the web is not designed for data entry tasks, really. Bertrand> The tricky part will be to parse the request sent by Bertrand> the form. Have every button called differently. An idea Bertrand> could be to call them button[key], this way you can test if Bertrand> 'button' is set in $_POST and then catch the corresponding Bertrand> key to know which row to remove. I think I'm partly there in my app, though it's not completely clear where I'm going wrong. The output of my script currently gives me the following: Found Sub-values for ref... 0=John 1=Bob Found Sub-values for refgrp... f0=David f1=Tom btnSubmit=Submit So I think I'm almost there. It's the dynamically adding/deleting elements that will mess me up I think. I'll keep plugging away at this and let you know how it goes. I might just punt on the single page form and just re-generate the form each time they want to add in new elements. I'll worry about deleting them later, since a "clear" button should work. Thanks for your help! John stoffel@lucent.com