All - I was following the instructions here on defining new input types for Semantic Forms:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Forms/Defining_new_inputs Those instructions state: "...This function needs to return an array of two elements: the first is the HTML text that will be displayed on the page for this input, and the second is whatever Javascript text should be added at the top of the page to enable both this input's running and its validation (this value can be null)." Users reported issues where they would sometimes see the word "Array" pop up in place of the form field, which led me to put some debug statements into Semantic Forms to figure out what was happening (after ensuring that I was, in fact, returning what the docs said to return) - according to my debug statements, returning an array from the function in question is NOT correct. Every other return value I saw coming out of that function contained only the HTML for the form field, not an array with two elements (and I was doing a print_r, so that hopefully would've caught any actual array value returns). I would note, though, that the array() return value worked in some cases but not others - if I kept the return value of the function as: return array($html, null); where $html is non-empty, the field would function for me across several computers, browser sessions, etc., but other users reported the same "Array" statement sometimes being printed. However, replacing that with: return $html; appears to work everywhere. I wanted to flag this, since it seems like an inaccuracy in the documentation itself (if it's not some sort of strange processing bug with Semantic Forms) - once I changed the code to only return the HTML, my test user stopped reporting the issue. This was with Semantic Forms 2.1.2. Is what I observed actually what should be happening? __________________________________________________ Peter Ellis Scientist Knowledge Discovery and Informatics Pacific Northwest National Laboratory ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. Learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help boost performance applications - inlcuding clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ Semediawiki-devel mailing list Semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-devel
