> and I know the names can cause some giggles but hey :P
LOL ... so ... any interesting website project lately? :P
Happy coding and bye for now.
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 9:20 PM, Gareth McCumskey <gmccums...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well just to conclude this, I saw an example on one of the symfony
> docs about overwriting the formatRow method.
>
> Firstly, my big thanks to you Sid as I would not have gotten this far
> without your help .... the community again has come to the rescue.
>
> Now for anyone that may find this useful in future here is how it
> looks in the end:
>
> My form consists of some dynamic form fields created based on values
> sent in an array when the form is constructed:
>
> public function __construct($extra_inputs = array())
> {
> $this->extra_inputs = $extra_inputs;
> parent::__construct();
> }
>
> In addition I had to create my own custom widget which is essentially
> just an ajax link to an action that forwards the value of one input
> box to the action, adds that value to a session array, sends the
> session array to the form using the $extra_inputs parameter above and
> redisplays the form in the div with the new input box for that value
> added.
>
> So, my difficulty was that each new extra_input needed to use that
> ajax link widget again alongside it but would forward to a Remove
> action to remove that input from the session variable and hence from
> the form. What I needed was that each new dynamic extra_input and its
> associated Remove ajax link widget to be displayed one per line.
>
> My decorator class hence looks like such and I know the names can
> cause some giggles but hey :P :
>
> class mailAnalByRecip extends sfWidgetFormSchemaFormatter
> {
> protected
> $rowFormat = "\n%error%\n<span class=\"formRow\">\n<span
> class=\"formLabel\">%label%</span>\n<span
> class=\"formField\">%field%\n%help%</span></span>\n%hidden_fields%",
> $helpFormat = '<span class="fieldHelp">%help%</span>',
> $errorRowFormat = "<span>\n%errors%<br /></span>\n",
> $errorListFormatInARow = "<ul>%errors%</ul>\n",
> $errorRowFormatInARow = "<li class=\"error\">↓ %error%
> ↓</li>\n",
> $namedErrorRowFormatInARow = "<li class=\"error\">↓ %error%
> ↓</li>\n",
> $decoratorFormat = "%content%";
>
> protected $fields_to_format = array();
>
> public function __construct(sfWidgetFormSchema $widgetSchema,
> $fields_to_format)
> {
> $this->fields_to_format = $fields_to_format;
> parent::__construct($widgetSchema);
> }
>
> public function formatRow($label, $field, $errors = array(), $help =
> '', $hiddenFields = null)
> {
> foreach ($this->fields_to_format as $field_name)
> {
> if (strpos($field, $field_name) !== false &&
> strpos($field,
> 'type="text"') !== false)
> {
> $field = '<span class="field_row">'.$field;
> }
> else if (strpos($field, $field_name) !== false &&
> strpos($field,
> '<a') !== false)
> {
> $field = $field.'</span>';
> }
> }
>
> $row = parent::formatRow($label, $field, $errors, $help,
> $hiddenFields);
>
> return $row;
> }
> }
>
>
> And in my form class at the very end of the configure() method:
>
> $decorator = new mailAnalByRecip($this->widgetSchema, $this->extra_inputs);
> $this->widgetSchema->addFormFormatter('custom', $decorator);
> $this->widgetSchema->setFormFormatterName('custom');
>
> So there we go. A form class that dynamically creates widgets based on
> values in an array, as well as dynamically creating a custom ajax link
> widget and keeping the input and its ajax link widget associated
> visually using a custom form decorator class to add spans before and
> after the two widgets.
>
> WHEW! That was one HELLUVA learning experience LOL
>
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Sid Bachtiar <sid.bacht...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> You attach your decorator class to your form, e.g.:
>>
>> class yourForm extends sfForm
>> {
>> function configure()
>> {
>> /* configure your fields */
>>
>> $decorator = new yourFormFormatter($this->widgetSchema);
>> $this->widgetSchema->addFormFormatter('custom', $decorator);
>> $this->widgetSchema->setFormFormatterName('custom');
>> }
>> }
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 8:55 PM, Gareth McCumskey <gmccums...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Just a question.... if I overwrite the formatRow method how do I
>>> return the newly formatted row to wherever....
>>>
>>> eg
>>>
>>> public function formatRow($label, $field, $errors = array(), $help =
>>> '', $hiddenFields = null)
>>> {
>>> /*Do stuff to make $field from
>>> <input maxlength="50" type="text" name="test[first_name]"
>>> id="test_first_name" />
>>> into
>>> <span><input maxlength="50" type="text" name="test[first_name]"
>>> id="test_first_name" />*/
>>>
>>> //Now what?
>>> }
>>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Sid Bachtiar <sid.bacht...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Actually I got very curious and did an experiment myself.Parameter
>>>> $field turns out to be a string like:
>>>>
>>>> '<input maxlength="50" type="text" name="test[first_name]"
>>>> id="test_first_name" />'
>>>>
>>>> So I guess the solution would be a little bit hacky, involving some
>>>> regex to detect which field it is and give it a different format
>>>> (e.g.: add <span> prefix on one field and append </span> on the second
>>>> field) :-\
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 8:23 PM, Sid Bachtiar <sid.bacht...@gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> If you look in sfWidgetFormSchemaFormatter class, you could probably
>>>>> override method:
>>>>>
>>>>> public function formatRow($label, $field, $errors = array(), $help =
>>>>> '', $hiddenFields = null)
>>>>>
>>>>> detect the special field through the $field parameter and give it a
>>>>> different formatting.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 8:21 PM, Sid Bachtiar <sid.bacht...@gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> Oh I just understood why you can't do it LOL sorry
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Sid Bachtiar <sid.bacht...@gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> Why can't you do something like this in template:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> <?php echo $form['not_special_1']->renderRow(); ?>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> <label>We are special:</label>
>>>>>>> <span>
>>>>>>> <?php echo $form['special_a']->render(); ?>
>>>>>>> <?php echo $form['special_b']->render(); ?>
>>>>>>> </span>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> <?php echo $form['not_special_2']->renderRow(); ?>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Gareth McCumskey
>>>>>>> <gmccums...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>> All I really want to do is add a span around two widgets
>>>>>>>> (<span><widget1 /><widget2 /></span>). I cannot do this in the
>>>>>>>> template because the template is designed to display many different
>>>>>>>> form types so the form class needs to define the exact structure of
>>>>>>>> the form.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Sid Bachtiar <sid.bacht...@gmail.com>
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Don't know about the documentation. I had to look around myself to
>>>>>>>>> learn about it.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Take a look at this example from my blog:
>>>>>>>>> http://bluehorn.co.nz/2009/08/31/symfony-12-sfform-formatter-to-add-stars-on-required-fields/
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 7:57 PM, Gareth McCumskey
>>>>>>>>> <gmccums...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> Hi guys,
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I have looked around for the documentation related to creating your
>>>>>>>>>> own form decorators but the reference to it in the forms book for
>>>>>>>>>> symfony 1.2 says look in Chapter 5 but there is no chapter 5 o.O
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Any pointers to where I could find the info would be appreciated.
>>>>>>>>>>
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