Re: QuickForm quirck or user error?

<M.Kaening@osram.de> wrote : > Hi, > > Since I want to code a wizard-like form I need to take care myself of some > (hidden) form variables. > > What I want is to let the user enter data in the form and after submission > he should see the same form in frozen mode. Then, still he should be able > to return to (unfrozen) edit mode if necessary. Also I want to inform the > user which fields he actually changed. That is why I also need the default > values the form started with right from the beginning as hidden values. > > Unfortunately I bumped into an unexpected problem with the saved hidden > date variable! > > The following code shows it. The date is saved in the default setting > $dV['Date'] as an array, then saved as a copy in $dV['oDate']. The hidden > element gets added and still var_dumps show that everything is okay, > meaning oDate being shown as an array. > > BUT, after form submission and form validation $form->process() prints out > only a "string(0)" as the content of 'oDate' whereas 'Date' is > fine. > What's going on here? > > Any clue? > > Marko > > ---snip--- > > <?php > include_once('HTML/QuickForm.php'); > $form = new HTML_QuickForm('Test', 'post'); > > // form vars: > $dV['Date'] = array('d'=>11, 'm'=>1, > 'Y'=>2003); > > // save initial values > foreach($dV as $key => $value) $odV['o'.$key] = $value; > > echo '<PRE>'; > var_dump($odV); > > // append initial values and add hidden elements for them > foreach($odV as $key => $value) > { > $dV[$key] = $value; > $form->addElement('hidden', $key,$value); > } > > var_dump($dV); > echo '<PRE>'; > > $form->setDefaults($dV); > $form->addElement('date', 'Date', 'Date:', > array('format'=>'d.m.Y', > 'minYear'=>1999, 'maxYear'=>2005 > )); > $form->addElement('submit', 'post', 'set'); > > if ($form->validate()) { > $form->freeze(); > $form->process(); > } > $form->display(); > > ?> > > /* Output of script after submission: > > array(1) { > ["oDate"]=> > array(3) { > ["d"]=> > int(11) > ["m"]=> > int(1) > ["Y"]=> > int(2003) > } > } > array(2) { > ["Date"]=> > array(3) { > ["d"]=> > int(11) > ["m"]=> > int(1) > ["Y"]=> > int(2003) > } > ["oDate"]=> > array(3) { > ["d"]=> > int(11) > ["m"]=> > int(1) > ["Y"]=> > int(2003) > } > } > > array(3) { > ["oDate"]=> > string(0) "" <<<--- WATCH THIS!!! > ["Date"]=> > array(3) { > ["d"]=> > string(2) "11" > ["m"]=> > string(1) "1" > ["Y"]=> > string(4) "2003" > } > ["post"]=> > string(3) "set" > } > > array(0) { > } > > */ > > ?> > > ---snip--- Hi, Can you try with setDefaults() used before any addElement() is done and let me know if it changes anything ? Bertrand Mansion Mamasam