Home » HTML » HTML_QuickForm » Bug #7443

[2006-04-20 20:30 UTC] rbradford at khov dot com

Description:
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I have a form for handling help desk tickets. Each ticket has
a "due date" among other fields. This is not a required field
so I need to have the element default to blank and store a
NULL value if it is left blank. I got the form to show the
blanks using:

$builder->selectAddEmpty = array('due_date');

(I am using DB_DataObject_FormBuilder, however I believe this
deals with the HTML_QuickForm part of it)

If I go to edit a record the due date element ('d M Y')
populates with the current date by default.

I also tried using the setConstants method, but same thing.

Test script:
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//Here's some code

$ticket = DB_DataObject::factory('hd_tickets');
$ticket->get($_POST['id']);
//...
$builder =& DB_DataObject_FormBuilder::create($ticket);
//...
$builder->dateElementFormat = 'd M Y';
$builder->selectAddEmpty = array('due_date');
//...
$renderer =& new HTML_QuickForm_Renderer_QuickHtml();
$form->accept($renderer);
//...
echo $renderer->toHtml($html_template);

Expected result:
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If I load a ticket record that has a NULL value for a due date
then the due date element should show blanks and when it saved
with the date elements blank then it should keep the NULL
value

Actual result:
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When I load a ticket record with a due date value of NULL then
the date element defaults to the current date. If I then
choose the blank options for each select and save it, the
value '0000-00-00' is stored.