[html-formfu] nested elements, and $form->get_element

[Ruben Fonseca]

On 2007/10/11, at 17:27, Carl Franks wrote:

> On 11/10/2007, Ruben Fonseca <rubenfonseca at di.uminho.pt> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I noticed that my $form->get_element stopped working. I digged a lot
>> until I find the cause.
>>
>> It seems that get_element (and get_elements) search on $form-
>>> _elements that, AFAIK, are the elements *after* the rendering is
>> passed on them?
>>
>> Well my problem is that I have several elements nested on a fieldset,
>> and get_element couldn't find the nested elements, only the outer  
>> ones.
>>
>> My solution to the problem was to change on ObjectUtil.pm the calls
>> to $form->_elements to $form->get_all_elements on "sub get_elements".
>> Can you confirm this?
>
> Hi,
>
> There's a get_all_element() method which will do a recursive search
> and only return the first found (though if you don't provide a name or
> type argument, then it'll still only return the outer fieldset).

Oh I didn't know that I could pass parameters to get_all_element()  
like the get_element method!

Problem solved, thank you :)

Ruben