Re: DB_DO_FormBuilder and custom getters

On 10/14/05, arnaud sellenet bodin <demental@free.fr> wrote: > Hello everybody ! > > I have a database structure like this : > ____________ ________________ > | contacts | | contact_types | > +------------------+ +--------------------------+ > | id PK | | id PK | > | email | | name | > | idType FK | | fatherId | > +------------------+ +--------------------------+ > > the contact_types has a tree structure > > (I did not use PEAR_Tree, but) made a custom getter so that : > > $ct= & DB_DataObject::factory("contact_types"); > $ct->get(13); > echo $ct->getName(); > > echoes the path from the root to the element (e.g. root>elt1>elt1.1) > > If I bind the DBDO instance to a Structures_dataGrid, it gets the name > from getName() instead of reading directly the Name property from the > object, which I expected. > > So my question is : is there a way to configure formbuilder so that it > behaves like DG ? (as apparently it does not by default). For the > moment I juste made a select in the fb_preDefElement but I don't like > this solution. The short answer is no. FormBuilder does not currently support getters and it only supports setters on some fields. It could be *possible* to implement such a thing, but it's going to be a major undertaking. DB_DO is very tightly integrated into FB and it directly accesses the fields all over the place. -- Justin Patrin