Form Generation Library

[eluser]macigniter[/eluser]
[quote author="combatCoder" date="1261609025"]Any ideas why this is not validating?
Does anyone know if there is a issue with using the onchange to submit and not a button?[/quote]

Actually it is the missing submit() button that is causing the form not to validate. The form is checking the value of the submit button to check whether the form was submit or not. So this is a tricky one.

For now my best solution is adding the following code to the library:

Code:

// add this just below function set_value() in libraries/Form.php

/**
* Trigger
*
* Set a submit trigger if no submit button is
* included in the form. Whenever this trigger
* element is posted, the form is considered submit
*/    
function trigger($name='')
{
    if ( ! $name) show_error(FGL_ERR.'trigger: No element name specified');
    $this->_submit_name[] = $name;
    return $this;
}

Then you can simply do:

Code:

$type = array(
    'default'  =>    '--- Select a Report ---',
    'user'     =>    'Create an User Report',
    'errors'   =>    'Create an Errors Report',
    'office'   =>    'Create an Office Report',
    'eom'      =>    'Create an EOM Report'
);
    
$this->form->open('picker/index','picker')
->select('type', $type, 'Please Select the desired Report:', 'default', '', 'onchange="document.picker.submit()"')
->trigger('type') // specify the element which will be used as the form submit trigger
->validate();

if($this->form->valid)
{
    echo 'Thunderbirds are GO!';
} else {
    echo 'Houston we have a problem';
}

I think that this trigger() method is the best solution for now. I will add it to the next offical version. Thanks for pointing this out!