Field "required" when set to not required

[njw]

Hi Steve

Probably something I don't understand properly.

I have a table Person that contains rudimentary data about people, including phone number - see definition below:

Person

Field	Type	Null	Default
PersonId	int(11)	No
Surname	varchar(40)	No
Forenames	varchar(64)	No
Email	varchar(40)	Yes	NULL
Phone	varchar(40)	Yes	NULL
Comments	longtext	Yes	NULL

In the fields.ini I have the following lines:

[Phone]
widget:atts:size = 20
validators:required = false

Yet, when I go to the entry form, Phone is flagged as required.

Any idea what I've got wrong?

Many thanks

Neil

[shannah]

Hi Neil,

Unfortunately you must use 0 to indicate false, as the PEAR_Config class (which datface uses to load its ini files) reads "false" as the string "false" and not the boolean value false, so that "false" actually means true!.

I sent in a bug report to PEAR_Config about this a while back but they decided that it is just a documentation issue(i.e., they're not going to change it).

Hope this helps.

-Steve

[njw]

and I thought M$ were the only ones who had bugs called features!

[njw]

Sorry Steve - tried that:

[Phone]
widget:atts:size = 20
validators:required = 0

Stil comes up as a required field.

Neil

[shannah]

Hi Neil,

I have filed a bug report and submitted a fix for this issue at:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1477096&group_id=153729&atid=788932

Best regards

Steve

[njw]

Thanks Steve. Works fine.

Neil

[ozrebel]

Hi Steve.

Firstly please let me say that this is one of the best pieces of software I reckon I've ever found on the net! Great work, and a terrific helpful website.

Now, on to my problem

I am also having the same problem as outlined above. I have downloaded the updated Table.php file as indicated in the tracker, but get the following error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: getactions() in /home/mistro/public_html/dataface/Dataface/ActionTool.php on line 71

Interestingly, the fields which are showing up as required all appear to have collation set, and any fields which I have in the database without collation set are not defaulting to required.

Unfortunately phpMyAdmin will not allow me to change fields to blank collation, and adding new fields defaults to ASCII collation delivering the same problem.

Any clues?

Cheers

Tony

[shannah]

Hi Tony,

The tracker reference in this thread is a little old now. If you're using a more recent version of Dataface, it will have a newer version of Table.php in it. Recommend you re-download the latest Table.php file from sourceforge and go from there.

Let me know how it goes.

Best regards

Steve

[ozrebel]

G'day Steve.

Thanks for your reply.

I have re-downloaded dataface-0.6.9r1 package, extracted, and replaced my current table.php file with the one in the package, and there has been no change - still all non numeric fields displaying as required by default, and unchangable with validators set to either 0 or false.

Cheers

Tony

[shannah]

Hi Tony,

Can you post the relevant portions of your table definitions (e.g. the create table statements), and the fields.ini files so that I can take a look and try them out to track down the bugs...


One thing that occurs to me is that any field that is set NOT NULL will show up as required...

Best regards

Steve

[ozrebel]

Thanks Steve. It was the NOT NULL.

Cheers

Tony