Re: Quickform group element default

Quoting Bertrand Mansion <bmansion@mamasam.com>: > <mikeatwork@ukonline.co.uk> wrote : > > > Hi > > > > i have three quickform elements in a group. the three elements represent > the > > parts of a persons name 'title', 'firstname', 'surname'. > > > > $adult["title"] = &HTML_QuickForm::createElement('select', > > 'title', '', > > $titles); > > $adult["firstname"] = &HTML_QuickForm::createElement('text', > > 'firstname', > '', > > array('size' => 25, 'maxlength' => 30)); > > $adult["surname"] = &HTML_QuickForm::createElement('text', > > 'surname', '', > > array('size' => 25, 'maxlength' => 30)); > > > > They are grouped into a group names 'adultGroup'. > > $form->addGroup($adult, "adultGroup", $language['L_AdultName']); > > > > i would like to set the default only in the 'surname' box. > > > > Looking at > > > > http://www.appelsiini.net/~tuupola/php/peardoc2/package.html.html-quickform.ht > > ml-quickform.setdefaults.html > > there is no explination of setting an elements default when it is within a > > group. > > > > How is it done? and can the documentation be merged in to the weekly pear > docs > > build ? please please :-) > > Should be merged since a week now... Sorry, I meant documentation about setting defaults for nested elements i a group to the existing setDefaults() documentation. > $default['adultGroup'] = array('surname' => 'Carter'); > $form->setDefaults($defaults); Thanks for the quick response. Was just going to post that I'd solved it - was trying something and had a type in my array key :-/ $form->setDefaults(array("adultGroup" => array("surname" => $GLOBALS['vars']['surname']))); Regards, Mike Carter. -- http://www.buddasworld.co.uk ---------------------------------------------- This mail sent through http://www.ukonline.net