[html-formfu] Constraint "Required" with condition "when" doesn't work in apache-style config

Christoph Metz mail-lao at web.de
Fri Nov 28 16:11:57 GMT 2008


Carl Franks wrote:
> 2008/11/28 Christoph Metz <mail-lao at web.de>:
>   
>> using an Require constraint whith the "when" condition doesn't work fine for
>> me :/
>>
>> <element>
>>           type Select
>>             name kompetenzfeld_id
>>             <constraint>
>>               type Required
>>               <when>
>>                   field extern
>>                   values 0
>>                 </when>
>>           </constraint>
>> </element>
>>
>>
>> without the "<when>" part the Required constrain works correctly, maybe the
>> syntax of my conf isn't correct, but this was the only variant,
>> (config-loader) formfu accepted so far...
>>     
>
> That config seems to work, looking at a dumped $form, so the problem
> must either be a misunderstanding of how it's meant to work, or a bug.
> Note that the when() doesn't yet support nested params, such as "foo.bar".
>
> Can you write a failing test file, that demonstrates what you expect
> to happen, to help start to narrow it down?
>
> Cheers,
> Carl
>
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>   
thanks carl,

the radio-button and the field asking for it with "when()" are nested in 
2 divs... damn. Are there any other possibilities to do this kind of 
stuff, without validating each param by myself AND with the ability to 
access these magic method across blocks, like some divs?



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