Re: Adding Elements dynamically in HTML_QuickForm_Controller?

<stoffel@lucent.com> wrote : > > Hi, > > I'm trying to use HTML_QuickForm_Controller to allow end users to edit > records in a Normalized Database. One of the fields that is in a > record can have zero to N (where N maxes out around 50 currently I > think) text fields. I'm using the tabbed.php example as my base to > build on for this set of pages. > > I'd like to make it so that the user can just goto the tab in the form > for that data, and start adding these field(s) as needed. The form > would start with just one field. > > I assume there would need to be a button the form page to all another > element, using the > > $this->addElement('text','field${n}','FieldVal${n}'); > > But I'm not sure how to implement this. I relize I'd need to setup a > new class, but would I have to reset the variable $this->_formBuilt > to be false when I made the change, so as to force it to visible? > > For now, I can deal with just adding elements to the form, I'd just > ignore any empty elements when I did the actually data insert into the > DB. > > Can anyone point me to an example which shows me how to make this > work? Are you looking for something like a 'repeat' element that would display rows using a predefined model along with 'add' and 'delete' buttons ? Bertrand Mansion Mamasam