Using HTML Quickform for Form Processing - Header, Link, HTML

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header

The header element is similar to the static element but only its label is displayed, and it has different formatting. This makes it useful for a header that sets off a section of a form.

These are the valid arguments when creating a header element:

• $elementName: The name for HTML_QuickForm’s internal element array

• $text: The text to display in the form The following is the sample usage:

$form->addElement('header','episode_4','A New Hope');

The following is the sample HTML:

<tr>
  <td nowrap="nowrap" align="left" valign="top" colspan="2" bgcolor="#CCCCCC">
<b>A New Hope</b></td>
</tr>

link

The link element generates an HTML <a> tag that is paired with a label in the form layout.

These are the valid arguments when creating a link element:

• $elementName: The name attribute of the element’s <a< tag

• $elementLabel: The label of the link in the form

• $href: The target of the link

• $text: The text to display in the form

• $attributes:Arbitrary element attributes, as a string or an associative array

The following is the sample usage:

$form->addElement('link','pp_link','Privacy Policy:',
  'http://www.example.com/privacy.html', 'Click Here',
'_target="blank"');

The following is the sample HTML:

<tr>
<td align="right" valign="top"><b>Privacy Policy:</b></td>
<td valign="top" align="left"><a _target="blank" name="pp_link" href="http://www.example.com/privacy.html"<Click Here</a></td> </tr>

html

The html element inserts unmodified HTML into the rendering of the form. Because HTML_QuickForm displays form elements in table rows, take care to format HTML inserted with this element properly so that it fits into the form’s table.

This is the valid argument when creating an html element:

• $text: The HTML to display in the form The following is the sample usage:

$form->addElement('html','<img src="spacer.png"<');

The following is the sample HTML:

<img src="spacer.png">

This chapter is from Essential PHP Tools: Modules, Extensions, and Accelerators, by David Sklar, (Apress, 2004, ISBN: 1590592808). Check it out at your favorite bookstore today. Buy this book now.

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