flexy:nameuses="variable"

flexy:nameuses="variable" – Use a variable in the name for a flexy form element

Synopsis

Usage ( flexy:nameuses="variable" name="sometag[%s]" )

Description

If you have a form with multiple input boxes (eg. group members), which are dynamically generated, then this attribute can be used to generate flexy elements based on sprintf'ing the variable value into the name attribute value.

Example

Template with flexy:ignore

   

<html>
  <head>
    <title>Example of name Uses</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <form name="formtest">
      <span flexy:foreach="data,key,row">
        {key}: <input name="data%s" flexy:nameuses="key" type="hidden" size="10"><br>
      </span>
    </form>
  </body>
</html>

Backend Code Snippet

<?php
$this
->data = array();
$elem = array();
$elem['formtest'] = &new HTML_Template_Flexy_Element();
$elem['formtest']->attributes['method'] = 'post';
$elem['formtest']->attributes['action'] = 'test';  

for(
$i 0$i 10$i++) {
        
$this->data[$i] = $i;
       
        
$elem["data$i"] = new HTML_Template_Flexy_Element();
        
$elem["data$i"]->attributes['type'] = 'text';
        
$elem["data$i"]->attributes['size'] = $i;

}
$flexy->outputObject($this$elem);

?>

Compiled template

<html>
  <head>
    <title>Example of name Uses</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <?php echo $this->elements['formtest']->toHtmlnoClose();?>
<?php 
if ($this->options['strict'] || (is_array($t->data)  || is_object($t->data)))
foreach(
$t->data as $key => $row) {?>
      <?php echo htmlspecialchars($key);?><?php if (!isset($this->elements[sprintf('data%s',$key)])) $this->elements[sprintf('data%s',$key)]= $this->elements['data%s'];
                
$this->elements[sprintf('data%s',$key)] = $this->mergeElement($this->elements['data%s'],$this->elements[sprintf('data%s',$key)]);
                
$this->elements[sprintf('data%s',$key)]->attributes['name'] = sprintf('data%s',$key);
                echo 
$this->elements[sprintf('data%s',$key)]->toHtml();?><br>
<?php }?>
    </form>
  </body>
</html>

Resulting Output

         
 
 <html>
  <head>
    <title>test for PEAR bug#4683</title>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
  </head>
  <body>
    <form name="formtest" method="post" action="test">      
      0: <input name="data0" type="text" size="0"><br>
      1: <input name="data1" type="text" size="1"><br>
      2: <input name="data2" type="text" size="2"><br>
      3: <input name="data3" type="text" size="3"><br>
      4: <input name="data4" type="text" size="4"><br>
      5: <input name="data5" type="text" size="5"><br>
      6: <input name="data6" type="text" size="6"><br>
      7: <input name="data7" type="text" size="7"><br>
      8: <input name="data8" type="text" size="8"><br>
      9: <input name="data9" type="text" size="9"><br>
    </form>
  </body>
</html>
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