Hey all,

Working on converting the first major site to 9 from 8.6 and running into a lot of data conditional issues.

Already discovered that:

if($string);

no longer works, it needs to be explicit:

if(string($string));

to work.

Now running into a more complex one. When I loop back on a form that has been submitted (say for a user input error) I need to pickup the first submissions and dump them into the form for editing. However, the same form is also used the first time through as a blank form, so we have to test the var that is holding the data to see if this is first time (empty) or if we are editing.

If we are entering the form for the first time, we:

var('fromForm' = array);

If we are looping back because of an error and we need to edit, then we load the var with the form data:

var('fromForm' = client_postparams);

Then into the form we go. When we get to a form field we need to test if the form was previously submitted with a value for that field:

L8.6 (does not work in 9):
value="[$fromForm->find('r_fn') ? $fromForm->find('r_fn')->first->second]"

L9 - to get it to work:
value="[$fromForm->size > 0 && $fromForm->find('r_fn') ? $fromForm->find('r_fn')->first->second]"

Seems like I am going down a road that is going to get very cumbersome and complicated. Is there a better way to do this? Maybe create a tag that turns the params into a simple map?

Thoughts?

Marc


Marc Pinnell
1027 Design
PO Box 990872
Redding, CA 96099-0872
530.941.4706
fax: 866.232.5300
www.1027Design.com


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