Here some info about hiding a field within a form
We do have a form and it's having some fields, we did set up the models/controllers etc and now we want to hide a field.
divs+getInput/Label
within the views you'll see something like
Code:
<div class="control-group">
<div class="control-label"><?php echo $this->form->getLabel('test');?></div>
<div class="controls"><?php echo $this->form->getInput('test'); ?></div>
</div>
that's fine but what if we want to hide a field completely that can give problems, this as the dis are hardcoded but the retrieval of getLabel/getInput not. So if the field is hidden it will still output the divs and it will lead to empty spaces.
so a way to do it is to replace that code within the edit file so it will be something like
Code:
<?php echo $this->form->renderField('test'); ?>
but we've to do more.
altering model
Next thing we do is altering the model.
-> seach for "public function getForm"
in there you can modify the form-data so if we want to strip/remove a field completely we can do it here.
Code:
# define needed values
$test = some defined data;
if (!($test)) {
# the test field is not needed
$form->removeField('test);
}
//
don't use setFieldAttribute as the fields will still be within the formdata and if validation is set but field hidden or somethinglike that it will trow in unneeded errors.
