Re: QF3.2 - 2 BC breaks with custom method!

Thanks to all. Very informative. Bertrand and Alexey's suggestion looks powerful. I will give it a try. Regards Ignatius _________________________ "Lukas Smith" <smith@backendmedia.com> wrote in message news:php.pear.general-8792@news.php.net... > > From: Alexey Borzov [mailto:borz_off@cs.msu.su] > > Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 10:24 PM > > > Ignatius Reilly wrote: > > > OK. I struggled to upgrade to 3.2 > > > The validation of custom functions seems to suffer at least two BC > > breaks: > > > > Er, when we said that we preserved backwards compatibility, we couldn't > > imagine > > all possible clever solutions existing out there. ;] > > > > I already wrote something like this in private to Hodicska Gergely who > > complained about related problems, but I think it wouldn't hurt to repeat > > this > > in the list. > > > > The problem with your approach is: QuickForm's validation was designed to > > validate the *value*, not the *element*. > > Just as a quick FYI without knowing any of the details: > Having complete docs for packages helps for deciding what a BC break is and > what isn't. > > Removing undocumented features is not a BC break! > > IIRC quickforms is quite well documented. > > Regards, > Lukas