I'm starting to get the hang of the new admin generator and form framework, but I'm still struggling with some details.
A while ago I created a new widget type for displaying plain text which does not need to saved to the database. I use this for things like 'updated_at' or 'created_at' timestamps which are not editable by the user. The problem I'm facing now is a bit more complicated. I want to be able to define options for fields in the admin generator's generator.yml which I can get at in my widget in order to modify its behavior. The specific use case I'm going for now: I've created a new widget called 'sfWidgetFormPlainDate'. This is for displaying timestamps as described above. The problem I have is that although I have defined a date_format for these fields in my generator.yml, I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get that setting into my widget in such a way that I can actually use it. It looks like the generator passes on any parameters that are under the name "attributes" in your field definition to the render method of the widget, so I could conceivably stuff a date format field in there. But the attributes field is clearly meant to be for html attributes, not arbitrary formatting options. I suppose I could define the date format in the form class, which is probably what I will do for now, but this means I need to define the date format in two different places: once in yaml for displaying the date in the list view of the admin generator, and once in code for formatting the widget itself. Not very DRY. Any suggestions on how I can eliminate this duplication? Thanks, David Brewer --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "symfony users" group. To post to this group, send email to symfony-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to symfony-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
