On 20/04/07, Thorsten Domsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I want to create a custom FormFu Element consisting out of a few ordinary HTMl Elements via formFu. Let's say a date combo consisting of three select boxes (Day,Month,Year named $self->name."_d", "_m" ,"_y"), creating something like this is easy, writing the three boxes in my template file childsplay, but how do i get formfu to correctly evaluate the three boxes as one (constraints, errormsgs ??) ??
Error messages should already be handled properly - meaning errors from all sub-elements will be displayed together, in the same manner as non-multi elements. For an example, see the "Multi, 3 Select fields" element in this demo page: http://www.fireartist.com/html-formfu-cssapp/form/view/with-errors/1 So if you want to check for a valid date, you would only need one constraint added to one element, and then make the error message appropriate for the 3 fields as a whole. I haven't copied the old HTML::Widget::Constraint::Date into form, because I wanted it to also support single-field dates, and not just separate year/month/day fields. The way I think I'd like to see it work, would be that if you're using a single field for the whole date, that you'd use the same interface as HTML::FormFu::Inflator::DateTime - providing an argument suitable for DateTime::Format::Builder::parser() --- elements: - type: text name: date constraints: - type: Date parser: strptime: '%d-%m-%Y' or --- elements: - type: text name: date constraints: - type: Date parser: regex: '^ (\d{2}) - (\d{2}) - (\d{4}) $/' params: [day, month, year] Or if you want to use 3 seperate fields, I think the constraint should probably use the same other() interface as several other constraints already do - as I plan to standardize this soon, and make them all use a common base-class. (part of the reason for this is to help the work I've been doing on the client-side JS constraints). So, it's probably okay to say that the constraint has to be added to the 'year' field, and others() names the 'month' and 'day' fields. Like so: --- elements: - type: multi elements: - type: text name: year constraints: - type: Date others: [month, day] - type: text name: month - type: text name: day Patches / commits to actually implement HTML::FormFu::Constraint::Date welcome! Carl _______________________________________________ Html-widget mailing list Html-widget@lists.rawmode.org http://lists.rawmode.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/html-widget
