| Sarah Gray 2004-06-28, 4:08 pm |
| Hi --
This is a quick anecdote about HTML_Quickform, and a question.
Basically, I went to bed and my form scripts were working fine -- have
been for w s.
("fine" == submitting as post, showing error messages when necessary,
inserting into / updating relevant db tables.)
I woke up this morning and all my forms were submitting as
'get', and the required messages (the rules -- 'required', 'enter valid
email', etc.) were not showing (although the red *'s that indicate a
required field, did show up). The form "errors" array was empty and the
form did not submit with or without the required fields being filled in
-- meaning, the db was not being updated or inserted into. This was a
global change -- from all my test case scripts to my working dev cases
-- clearly a singular setting somewhere was affecting multiple scripts
that have been valid for ws.
Needless to say, not a happy moment -- I troubleshot a bit and finally
tried upgrading HTML_QuickForm from 3.2.2 to 3.2.3, which I had been
going to do anyway. Voila, everything worked swimmingly again (posts,
errors, db connections all intact). Which is great, I'm set. But -- my
question is -- why did 3.2.2 stop working as expected? Is that usual
behaviour when a package upgrades? I would think that existing packages
shouldn't be affected by a new release. What changed? Did anyone else
have this experience?
Thanks,
s.
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