Matthew Weier O'Phinney-3 wrote:
>
> -- Dieter Provoost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> (on Thursday, 13 March 2008, 03:43 AM -0700):
>> Playing around with Zend_Form I noticed that when you want to populate a
>> form, it loops over all form elements and populates them with the
>> available
>> values.
>>
>> It loops all elements, including submit buttons, which are unnecessary to
>> loop over.
>>
>> When I populate a form, I want it to set default values for all kinds of
>> fields, but not the submit buttons. (because these values aren't
>> available
>> in the data-array I provide with the populate method)
>>
>> Using this populate function, on a form, the values from
>> $btnSubmit->setValue('submit') get overridden and replaced by null since
>> there is no key in the data-array which is the same as the submitbutton
>> object name.
>
> You must be using RC1 or earlier -- I fixed this issue in trunk last
> week, and that fix is now available in RC3. populate() now only
> populates the values for which it has keys.
>
>> I suggest there should be an extra filter when looping over the different
>> form elements and only set defaults on text-fields, radio buttons, ...
>> but
>> NOT on submit buttons (and maybe some other elements). Otherwise these
>> buttons lose their initailly set value.
>>
>> Something like this (quick & dirty) in Zend_Form, method setDefault(...):
>> if ($element = $this->getElement($name)) {
>>
>> if(!($element instanceof Zend_Form_Element_Submit))
>> {
>> $element->setValue($value);
>> }
>> } else {...
>>
>> Same thing for validation check. Should a submit button be validated??
>
> You may want to determine if the value passed is the same as the value
> stored in the submit button -- to verify that you didn't get a bogus
> submission. We also use the logic internally to determine if a
> particular button was used -- you can use the isChecked() method of each
> button type (Submit, Reset, Button) to determine if that particular
> button was used to submit the form -- this will only work *after* you've
> either populated the form *or* run through validations (which populates
> the form as well).
>
> --
> Matthew Weier O'Phinney
> PHP Developer | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Zend - The PHP Company | http://www.zend.com/
>
>
I'm sorry I forgot to mention that I am indeed using RC1. Thanks for your
reply and the provided solution. Case closed ;-)
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