Re: Quickform ElementGrid - how to addRule()

On 3/21/07, Ben <ben@giantsteps.com> wrote:

I am adding a grid of editable 'text' elements to a ElementGrid in HTML_Quickform. I would like to add validation rules ... In the code below (***) I try and use "addRule" to no avail. Any ideas on how to make the validation of each element work? Thanks. { $elementGrid =& $form->addElement('elementGrid', 'elementGrid', $prompt, array('actAsGroup' => true)); foreach($colheadings as $aheading) {

    $elementGrid->addColumnName($aheading);

} $numrows = count($data); // data contains 2 dimenensional array of numbers $numcols = count($colheadings); // echo "addGrid:: numrows=$numrows numcols=$numcols <br>"; for ($i=0; $i<$numrows; $i++) {

    $row = null;
    for($j=0; $j<$numcols; $j++) {
      $itemname = "grid_${name}_${i}_${j}";
      $row[] =& HTML_QuickForm::createElement('text', $itemname,

$itemname, array('size' => 10));

***      $form->addRule($itemname,  "field must be numeric", 'numeric',

null, 'server');

    }
    $gridrows[] = $row;

} $elementGrid->setRows($gridrows); }

Looks like that was one of the things I never tested. Rules on element in an elementGrid are currently not supported (and some quick hacking hasn't shown me a solution). I suggest you try addFormRule() for now. -- Justin Patrin