[html-formfu] Join two fields?

[Moritz Onken]

I thought of a structure like this:


    elements:
       - type: Text
         name: forename
       - type: Text
         name: surname
       - type: Hidden
         name: fullname
         filters:
            - type: Join
              fields: [forename, surname]
              join_by: " "


and if fullname is a column in the dbic model it'll be saved.

bad idea?


Am 30.04.2008 um 16:31 schrieb Carl Franks:

> 2008/4/30 Moritz Onken <onken at houseofdesign.de>:
>> I'm writing a filter right now but I have no idea how I can get the  
>> values
>> of other fields in the filter() method.
>>
>> cheers
>>
>> Am 18.04.2008 um 20:12 schrieb Moritz Onken:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I looked at all elements and filters but I couldn't find one which  
>>> joins
>> two fields.
>>>
>>> Example:
>>> I have the fields "street" and "street number". The database has  
>>> only one
>> field for both (address). The individual fields will not be stored.
>>> Can FormFu join these two fields?
>>>
>>> If there is no such thing I'll write a filter and publish it.
>>> cheers,
>
> This is quite good timing, as I'm just this minute looking at zby's
> work on "Composed" elements.
>
> I thing this would probably be the correct approach to achieve this,
> as there would be major limitations on using just a Filter - for
> example, it wouldn't work with HTML-FormFu-Model-DBIC - because there
> would be no field named 'address', it still wouldn't get saved to the
> database.
>
> Carl
>
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