Re: DB_DataObject_FormBuilder questions

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 02:13:29PM -0800, Justin Patrin wrote: > > I solved this problem by adding a config var to the DO which says what > user groups can edit which fields, then freezing fields the user can't > edit in postGenerateForm. Yes, this required messing about on DB_DO, > but, as Markus said, this is out of scope for FB. FB is meant to make > and process a form, no more. Adding permissions to it would be a huge > step. If you want to make a new package which extends FB that adds > permissions, that would be great. ;-) > I'm porting over a rather large application that used my own clunky, homegrown, non-OOP application framework, to instead use FB. So far it's going well. My ugly old way of specifying fields was as such: $enhancement_hour_fields = array( "family_id" => array ( // perms are group, user perms => array (ACCESS_VIEW, ACCESS_VIEW), display => "Co-Op Family", table => "parents" , linktable => "families", linkfield => "name", callback => "popupUtil" ), "enhancement_project_id" => array ( required => 1, display => "Project", table => "enhancement_hours", linktable => "enhancement_projects" , linkfield => "project_name", uniqueness => array ('project_name', 'project_description'), crosscallback => 'enhancement_project_callbacks', callback => "popupUtil" ), "hours" => array ( required => 1, size => 10, table => "enhancement_hours" , display => "Hours Worked" ), "work_date" => array ( required => 1, table => "enhancement_hours" , type => "date" , display => "Date Worked (MM/DD/YYYY)" ), "school_year" => array ( required => 1, table => "enhancement_hours" , type => "schoolyear" , callback => "schoolYearPopup", def => findSchoolYear(), display => "School Year (YYYY-YYYY)" ), "parent_id" => array ( // perms are group, user required => 1, perms => array (ACCESS_ADD, ACCESS_VIEW), display => "Parent", table => "enhancement_hours" , linktable => "parents", uniqueness => array ('last_name', 'first_name'), showall => 3, linkfield => "last_name", callback => "popupUtil", joins => array( // outer array, can have more as in callbacks array('kids', 'family_id', array('enrollment', 'kid_id'))) , school_year => array( 'def' => findSchoolYear(), 'table' => 'enrollment'), ), "enhancement_hour_id" => array ( table => "enhancement_hours" , savealways => 1, perms => array (ACCESS_NONE, ACCESS_NONE) ) ); Now FB makes most of this nasty stuff redundant. I'll tack my permissions system onto FB and then I'll be rid of my old system. But things that I really, really like, and really miss in FB, is that all the vital parameters for a given field are in one place. Made it easy to copy/paste, or to make changes. Oh well. - -ken - -- - --------------- The world's most affordable web hosting. http://www.nearlyfreespeech.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFB1eTCe8HF+6xeOIcRAqxbAKD+r24QeX0Uzi40xEg8behAEJceEgCgkC1g 1CP8RvVr44+o2nM3jlZ/q+U= =Z7Xb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----