Re: resettings HTML Quickform elemetns

On 6/28/05, Ian P. Christian <pookey@pookey.co.uk> wrote: > This seems like a nasty hack: > > 1 <? > 2 require_once 'HTML/QuickForm.php'; > 3 > 4 $form = new HTML_QuickForm(); > 5 $form->addElement('text', 'test','test'); > 6 > 7 > 8 $form->validate(); > 9 $form->display(); > 10 > 11 require_once 'Var_Dump.php'; > 12 > 13 Var_Dump::display($form); > 14 $form->_submitValues = array(); > 15 foreach($form->_elements as $element) { > 16 $element->setValue(''); > 17 } That is, indeed, a hack as you're playing with internal vars. Then again since the QF devs don't seem to want to add functions to access these properties... > 18 $form->validate(); > 19 $form->display(); > 20 > 21 Var_Dump::display($form); > > Is there a better way to reset the form completely are re-display it? > I would suggest redirecting (to clear POST) and then "re-displaying" your form. I tend to do a header('Location: ') after every form submission anyway to make sure that the POST data isn't in the browser history. -- Justin Patrin