Re: getDataObjectSelectDisplayValue

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 07:38:13PM -0700, Justin Patrin wrote: > > I've stared at the source code for this function and it seems really simple. But, > > apparently, I am even more simple, and it's not making sense to me. I think I've been > > awake for too many hours straight. > > > > If getDataObjectSelectDisplayValue() is looking at all the fields which have crosslinks, > > I'd expect it to return an assoc array. If it is only getting *one* field, I'd assume it > > would take the name of that field as a parameter. > > > > We should rename that function now... > > This function gives you the "display value" of a record. A name of > sorts. This defaults to the primary key. To set up different ones, use > the fb_linkDisplayFields array in the dataobject. > OK, thanks, I am a fool. If I'd looked more carefully at the data it returned, I'd have seen it was the data for $this->___table, which wasn't what I wanted. So what I need to do for my app is to pull up the FB objects for all the tables I am *linking* to, and call getDataObjectSelectDisplayValue() on each of those. Again, thanks. - -ken - -- - --------------- The world's most affordable web hosting. http://www.nearlyfreespeech.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBeoiKe8HF+6xeOIcRAhrkAJ9Ln8wwrrj96BA8dP0BbH/3Bpx/fACfWSkt YQCR8r/9ENkXfrbu7QPjSvU= =gm+o -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----