Smarty

[Nightstalker]

Hi,

Is it possible to instruct SmartyValidate to set the input values to their transformed value?

I am having a problem on a form where the input for 'user_firstname' and 'user_lastname' must be lowercase. I wrote a transform to call strtolower, and a validation function that checks against valid characters. But once SmartyValidate declares the form valid, the input values are still non-lowercased, which forces me to "manually" recall all transform funcs in the php code.

Is there a way to avoid that repetition?

Thanks in advance,
Dave

[Nightstalker]

Hmm, looking at the source code for is_valid(), this is already done as the form values are passed by reference. Any idea as to what could be my problem in that case?

[mohrt]

I tried this and works for me:

validate_transform.lower.php (in plugins_dir):

[php:1:c290f9ffb9]function smarty_validate_transform_lower($value, $params, &$formvars) {
return strtolower($value);
}[/php:1:c290f9ffb9]

index.php:

[php:1:c290f9ffb9]session_start();

require './smartylib/Smarty.class.php';
require './libs/SmartyValidate.class.php';

$smarty =& new Smarty();
SmartyValidate::connect($smarty);

switch($_REQUEST['fp']) {
case 'myform':
if(SmartyValidate::is_valid($_POST)) {
$smarty->display('success.tpl');
} else {
$smarty->assign($_POST);
$smarty->display('form.tpl');
}
break;
default:
SmartyValidate::connect($smarty, true);
$smarty->display('form.tpl');
break;

}
[/php:1:c290f9ffb9]

form.tpl (in template_dir):

[mohrt]

Oops, the form will NOT redraw because it is valid but the form value is indeed lower case.

[Nightstalker]

Okay, never mind. My problem was (1) badly naming the plugin (the doc says to name it smarty_validate_transform_tolower.php), and session data lying around because I wasn't resetting the form validation data when "starting over", so validation was still done against the old criteria, which didn't have the tolower transform (hence no "plugin not found" error).

Corrected all of that, and everything works fine, thanks!

[mohrt]

documentation error! I'll get that fixed, thanks. (you do NOT want smarty in the filename, but you do in the function name for name space precautions)