Re: FormBuilder postGenerateForm + elementNamePrefix rules issue

On 5/11/06, Justin Patrin <papercrane@gmail.com> wrote:

On 5/11/06, Paul Hinze <paul.t.hinze@gmail.com> wrote: On 5/11/06, Justin Patrin <papercrane@gmail.com> wrote:

Yep. This is one of the quirks having to do with the prefix/postfix options. Use $fb->getFieldName('username') instead of 'username'.

That makes sense, but I don't think I can get a FormBuilder in context during postGenerateForm, and the QuickForm that is passed in doesn't seem to have an equivalent function. Of course you can. It's the second parameter. http://pear.reversefold.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=pear:db_dataobject_formbuilder:callback_methods#postgenerateform_form_formbuilder

Well, there goes my trying-not-to-look-like-a-newbie cover. :-) $fb->getFieldName() works just fine.

As for replacing the messages...I'm not quite sure. It *could* be possible to add support to FB for element specific messages or perhaps there's a way to remove the rule with QF.

Removing rules with QF was my first thought, and I scoured the docs for a way of doing this. Oddly, the only thing I found was the $removeRules parameter for removeElement. I thought getRegisteredRules would give me access to change the existing rules, but it looks like it's really more like getRegisteredRuleTypes. Rather unclear. It seems that there really should be *some* way of accessing rules once they're added-- that would be the easiest my problem rather than going to all of the trouble of building per-element messages into FB (not that it would be impossible... I can picture promoting requiredMessage from scalar to array with functionality similar to fieldLabels). Anyone have ideas? Perhaps $form->insertElementBefore($form->removeElement('field', true), 'elementAfter'); If removeElement() can remove rules then there should be a public function to do the same thing. I suggets filing a feature request.

Request #7608 filed for HTML_QuickForm: http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=7608

-- Justin Patrin

Thanks again for all your help, Justin. Paul Hinze