Re: can't get [PEAR] DB_DataObject_FormBuilder to build a form

Thanks. Yeah, I should have caught that variable problem. What I will be searching for first include: 1 - how to make certain fields hidden 2 - how to make other fields display as textarea instead of text type 3 - how to delete a record It's cool how it knows whether to add or edit. This will work great especially for the forms that do not require custom validation rules/functions in QuickForms - I have several already - like one that checks for unique values as a custom validation rule. I saw that it is possible to do this in fb but, quite frankly, I need to get this out the door. Your help has been most appreciated! Best regards Justin Patrin <papercrane@gmail.com> wrote: On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 12:54:03 -0800 (PST), l Burnerheimerton wrote: > The code below is what he suggested and worked. Actually before changing > much of it, I just changed: > > $review = DB_DataObject::factory('building'); > $builder =& DB_DataObject_FormBuilder::create($building); > > to > > $building = DB_DataObject::factory('building'); > $builder =& DB_DataObject_FormBuilder::create($building); Hehe...just a variable name. Sorry about that, I missed it too. I usually assume that people catch that stuff on their own. ;-) Glad you got it working. > > and it worked. But I went further on his suggestion and chnaged it to > include the error checking as below. > > Now I have to delve into how to write QuickForm code through Form_Builder - > I was just getting confortable with QuickForm ;-) Well, it does most of it for you. You can pre-create elements if you *must* with the preGenerateForm callback and you can customize the auto-created ones in postGenerateForm. These are on the wiki you mention below in the callbacks section. > > Seriously, I REALLY like what you guys have built. Glad you like it. Suggestions are welcome. Tutorials are even more welcome. :-) Many people have proposed them, but no one has submitted one yet... > > I am to the following sites for more learning. If you have more where I can > get up to speed on how to format the output of fields, I'd appreciate you > posting those. Thanks again. The rest of the pages on that wiki are also important. If you haven't been there yet, start from this page: http://opensource.21st.de/tiki-index.php?page=DB_DataObject_FormBuilder > > http://opensource.21st.de/tiki-index.php?page=Beyond+Advanced I'm proud of this one (as I am in general of FB). It's mostly my own ideas when playing wround with DO and FB in my own apps. I use "virtual fields" quite often to make something look like one record when it's in fact more like 3 or 4. :-) -- Justin Patrin -- PEAR General Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 250MB free storage. Do more. Manage less.