Hi,
Indeed that's an inaccuracy in the documentation - it's outdated
information. Thanks for pointing that out. Feel free to change the
documentation yourself; otherwise I will, at some point soon.
-Yaron
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Ellis, Peter C <peter.el...@pnnl.gov>wrote:
> 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?
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