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[SOLVED] Setting widget default options in BaseFormPropel [message #64545]

Tue, 04 November 2008 18:35

annis
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Registered: September 2008
Location: Germany

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Hey all,

in the new forms book there is little snippet I'd like to use ( http://www.symfony-project.org/book/forms/1_1/en/04-Propel-I ntegration#Generating%20Form%20Classes, a little further down on "Global Customization of Propel Forms"). It says there that all base form classes inherit from this uber-base form. An example is given on how to change the default form formatter name - this is accessed via a static method.

Now, my question is: how do I setup default options for a certain widget? Take for example the format and months options of sfWidgetFormDate. I have at least 4 forms that need this in the same format and need the months not as numbers but as 'January' etc.

I can't call the setOption method as it's not a static method, so is this even possible?

On the other hand: why have this base class at all, then?

Cheers, Daniel

[Updated on: Thu, 06 November 2008 23:17]

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Re: Setting widget default options in BaseFormPropel [message #64602 is a reply to message #64545 ]

Wed, 05 November 2008 23:39

annis
Messages: 18
Registered: September 2008
Location: Germany

Junior Member

Well, that weren't that many answers.

At least the problem with the months I solved - just use sfWidgetFormI18nDate.

But I have all these useless, non-DRY lines of pure, boiler-plate configuration code in all my forms, which is pretty annoying.

Does anyone know anything about the base form configuration of all base forms?

Thanks in advance!

Cheers, Daniel

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Re: Setting widget default options in BaseFormPropel [message #64694 is a reply to message #64602 ]

Thu, 06 November 2008 20:40

barros
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Registered: June 2008

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Hi Daniel.

I think it's not possible to have a default options for a widget, but I think you can do one tiny trick. I didnt test it, but I guess this should work. The idea is, on the global BASE class you search through all your widgets and for those of type sfWidgetFormDate, you apply your settings.. the code would be something like this:

abstract class BaseFormPropel extends sfFormPropel
{
  public function setup()
  {
  	foreach($this->getWidgetSchema()->getFields() as $name=>$widget)
  	{
  		if($widget instanceof sfWidgetFormI18nDate)
  			$this[$name]->setOption('format','your_format_here');
  	}
  }
}

This way ALL your sfWidgetFormI18nDate widgets will have the same format option, but this will apply to the WHOLE application.

Hope this helps Smile

Carlos Barros

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Re: Setting widget default options in BaseFormPropel [message #64711 is a reply to message #64545 ]

Thu, 06 November 2008 23:16

annis
Messages: 18
Registered: September 2008
Location: Germany

Junior Member

Thank you very much, I just had to change it a little bit because sfForm throws an exception when you try it like this:

$this[$name]->setOption('format','your_format_here');

Now, instead do it like this:

$this->widgetSchema[$name]->setOption('format','your_format_here');

And that's it. Thanks again! Daniel

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Re: Setting widget default options in BaseFormPropel [message #64712 is a reply to message #64711 ]

Thu, 06 November 2008 23:18

barros
Messages: 12
Registered: June 2008

Junior Member

Oh, yes, I didn't notice this.

Thanks

Carlos

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