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Author Using QuickForm_Controller
Ken Restivo

2005-06-08, 8:57 pm

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I've spent the last month or so wrestling with QuickForm_Controller. I have almost defeated it, but it is putting up one hellacious fight.

The biggest challenge is that no code which makes use of $_REQUEST['blah'] can ever be expected to work with QFC. This is because QFC stores state in $_SESSION in between requests, and looks there for everything. Of course, I stupidly had $_REQUEST crap a
ll over my app.

What I have had to do in order to make my application QFC-compatible is:

1) Replace all uses of $_REQUEST with $page->getSubmitValues(), or the various $controller->container() access hacks that are documented in QFC's FAQ, and

2) Make sure that all my hidden's are actual $page->addElement('hidden', blah blah) in the parent form, instead of hacking them in using ->toHTML() methods.

This has often involved slipping references to the QF into my custom elements, much as Justin has done in his SubForm::setParentForm() method.

I'm just noting this so that it will appear in the archives; hopefully others will Google for it and thus save themselves some pain in the future.

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