Comments on: Non-existing fields no longer supported in FormHelper

By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 16:17:22 +0000

@Tane: I think the only thing we as framework users can do is waiting for the devs to fix it, as they are the only guys knowing in which direction this functionality will move (at least I hope they know it *g*)

By: Tane Piper

Tane Piper — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 22:14:29 +0000

@cakebaker: Yea, it’s simply a case of trial and error at the moment, and I know its just going to break, but what can you do?

By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:58:45 +0000

@all: Thanks for your comments!

@Tane: Yes, that’s a possible solution, but there are also strange results depending on the settings (“Model.field” vs. “field” as first parameter).

And as Grant mentioned, it is not always appropriate.

By: phpsc

phpsc — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 08:23:06 +0000

Not sure if many would be in favor of this new functionality. I wish its reverted back to the way it was.

By: tclineks

tclineks — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 15:29:46 +0000

I was battling with this yesterday, hope it ends up clean again.

By: nate

nate — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 15:16:09 +0000

This functionality is still under development/review.

By: Grant Cox

Grant Cox — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 23:12:45 +0000

I hope that what we are seeing is only partial functionality – and before the next 1.2.x release a more complete solution is developed.

I don’t think that accessing the form functions directly is always appropriate – then you have to manually add the div wrapping around each one?

By: Tane Piper

Tane Piper — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 23:01:04 +0000

I’ve found that actually setting the form element type (like $form->textarea, $form->checkbox and $form->hidden) gets round these issues.

Like so:

input(‘User.email’, array(‘label’=>’Please enter your email’));
echo $form->password(‘User.passwd’, array(‘label’=>’Please enter your password’));
echo $form->text(‘passwd_conf’, array(‘type’=>’password’, ‘label’=>’Please confirm your password’, ‘type’=>’password’));
echo $form->input(‘User.display_name’, array(‘label’=>’Please enter your desired display name’));
echo $form->hidden(‘User.active’);
?>
It is annoying, but it’s certainly workable.

By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 18:45:38 +0000

@all: Thanks for your comments!

@Stefano, Brandon: Yes, it works if you specify the id. But only if you use:

echo $form->input(’Model.virtual_field’, array(’id’ => ‘ModelVirtualField’));

If you use

echo $form->input('virtual_field’);

it creates the correct id, but then the name of the field is “data[Model][virtual_field][virtual_field]” instead of “data[Model][virtual_field]“…

By: Brandon P

Brandon P — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 16:09:48 +0000

Can you do?:

echo $form->input(‘virtual_field’, array(‘id’ => ‘ModelVirtualField’));