[html-formfu] Different attributes for the first record in a repeatable block

[Ascii King]

That's great, thanks.  That's almost exactly what I had except I had put 
brackets on the end of the get_elements, so I couldn't get it to work.

Carl Franks wrote:
> 2009/3/31 Ascii King <tech at swattermatter.com>:
>   
>> That works great! Thank you.  How do I count the number of elements returned
>> by the get_all_element function?
>>
>> $form->get_all_element({ type => Repeatable })
>>
>> If I display the variable, I can see that I get four elements, but I don't
>> know how to count them with code.
>>     
>
> "get_all_element" will only return the 1st item that would otherwise
> be returned by "get_all_elements".
> The "all" just means it works recursively.
>
> So in your case, "get_all_element" should be returning a Block, which
> itself contains some number of elements.
>
> It's not very pretty - you have to dereference the array-ref to a
> list, then count it in scalar context:
>
>     $count = scalar @{ $form->get_all_elements({ type =>
> Repeatable})->get_elements };
>
> Hope that helps,
> Carl
>
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