Re: cloning forms with QuickForm

On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 15:27:49 +0100, Alberto Mucignat <stain@dxml.org> wrote: > > hi all > > is there a way to clone a form? > > i need to identically replicate a search form at the bottom and at the > top of the search page, but since I would use ID tags within form > elements, I need different IDs. should I re-instantiate the object and > redefining all elements? Any tips/tricks? > Hmmm...perhaps HTML_QuickForm should have a __clone() method added to do this right. The short answer is that there's no good way. If you really need the search form in two places I would suggest setting the IDs to something easily replaceable, getting the HTML output, and doing a str_replace on the part of the IDs which is the same between all of them for the second form. -- Justin Patrin