Re: Quickform frozen elements

"Alexey Borzov" <borz_off@cs.msu.su> wrote in message news:3F3C7C81.6070503@cs.msu.su... > Hi! > > Jeroen van Vlierden wrote: > > I am using the following construction to make sure people don't alter data > > which they aren't supposed to alter > > > > $form = new HTML_QuickForm('Members', 'POST'); > > $form->addElement('text', 'NUMBER', 'NUMBER'); > > $el = $form->getElement('NUMBER'); > > $el->freeze(); > > There should be > $el =& $form->getElement('NUMBER'); > > or else you are freezing a copy of the element. Besides, do you actually set the > elements value somehow? Yes, sorry, I forgot to put that line of code in the example... Anyway, thank you so much, your proposed solution works fine. I should have realized that I needed a reference instead of a copy :-) This is (as most people will realize) a 'classical' error in c-programming as well :-) > > > or the alternative way > > > > $form->addElement('static', 'NUMBER', 'NUMBER'); > > Static elements do not have submit values. This is the intended behaviour. > >