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Form_Validate in Panel doesn't work

stromee — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:07:15 CDT

Hi,

For some reason when I create a Form_Validate function in a QPanel, it doesn't get processed when I set CausesValidation to true for my Submit button.

I'm assuming that it's trying to find a Form_Validate in the parent object, but how do I make it use the Form_Validate function in my QPanel?

Thanks for any help,
Chris

Re: Trying to figure out the advantage in a separte template directory

Adam Jorgensen — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:08:24 CDT

Keeping template and class in the same folder works fine when you have few files. With many files it === PAIN!

Re: Random Data From DB

Adam Jorgensen — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:05:04 CDT

DO NOT USE Order By Rand()!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here's why...

http://www.titov.net/category/sql/

Re: Random Data From DB

klucznik — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 06:45:07 CDT

it's not official, and probably won't be. However I'm curently using this on 2 production sites without any problems, so it's safe to use.

BTW remember not to mix this with other order by clauses, it should be the only one.

Re: EncodingType in QEmailServer

fecool — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:57:36 CDT

Alternatively you could try much shorter:
(Presumes, that $subject is encoded in UTF-8)


$encodedSubject = "=?UTF-8?B?" . base64_encode($subject) . "?=";
?>

Or if you prefer the Quoted-Printable-Format:


$encodedSubject = "=?UTF-8?Q?" . imap_8bit($subject) . "?=";
?>

(I think I used some variation of the last version)

Re: EncodingType in QEmailServer

fecool — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:50:52 CDT

It looks like I don't find my exact solution. I just don't remember in which project these lines of code should be.

EDIT: This DO NOT look like my solution. For a simpler approach look next post!

Though this is not exactly what have worked for me, it looks quite similar to what I had developed:
Just use the following function to encode your Mail-Subject:



function _mb_mime_encode($string, $encoding)
{
    $pos = 0;
    // after 36 single bytes characters if then comes MB, it is broken
    // but I trimmed it down to 24, to stay 100% < 76 chars per line
    $split = 24;
    while ($pos < mb_strlen($string, $encoding))
    {
        $output = mb_strimwidth($string, $pos, $split, "", $encoding);
        $pos += mb_strlen($output, $encoding);
        $_string_encoded = "=?".$encoding."?B?".base64_encode($output)."?=";
        if ($_string)
            $_string .= "\r\n";
        $_string .= $_string_encoded;
    }
    $string = $_string;
    return $string;
}

?>

Found on, which I remembered to use as reference the last time:
<http://php.net/manual/en/function.mb-encode-mimeheader.php>

Re: EncodingType in QEmailServer

Schnigges — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:51:00 CDT

Thanks, that would be great!

Re: Include Form/Panel specific Javscript or CSS

Erik Winn — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 21:09:21 CDT

Hey Geert,

Just to answer your question more directly - IncludedJavaScriptFileArray is only used to indicate javascript files that have been added (to avoid repitition). The array that you probably want to use is QControl::$strJavaScript. Unfortunately it is not public and there is no method available to add scripts to it; generally a QControl based class does so - the string may contain a comma delimited list of filenames (which are expected to be under wwwroot/assets/js ..).

QForm itself does not seem to have an equivilant, however you could subclass QPanel for whatever you need and add to the string I mentioned above. I recommend that you append your script filename to the string in case there is already something in there .. Alternately, you could add a AddJavaScript($filename) method to QControl - really should be something like this in the core IMHO.

HTH.
--erik

QCurl utility

Ago Luberg — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:20:51 CDT

Discussion thread for QCurl utility.

Needed to use curl and created a little tool for it. Still needs some improving. Currently has enough to satisfy me :)

Feel free to comment.

You can download it from: <http://qcodo.com/downloads/item.php/224>

Re: Store procedures and QCodo

kingwithin — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 15:05:25 CDT

Greetings, can someone provide an update in terms of whether support for stored procedures are supported in the latest qcodo release?

Re: Random Data From DB

kingwithin — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 12:50:34 CDT

Hi, we want to use this feature set...is this part of qcodo now or what is the accepted implmenetation now?

Thank.s

Re: Trying to figure out the advantage in a separte template directory

stromee — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:20:01 CDT

Thanks for the explanation guys. I guess I can see how it would be difficult once you had a lot of files. If there could be some way to load the template files automatically instead of having to specify the location for data repeaters, panel templates, etc... it would help.

But for now, I guess it's a trade-off between having to specify a template directory, or grouping all template files and controller files in one dir. I'll probably take the former for now. 'Tis the world of software development.

Chris

Re: Empty Translations

Ago Luberg — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:19:35 CDT

Has there something changed regarding this? Currently it seems, that it's not allowed to have empty translation. We, too, need to have empty messages for some cases.

Have to modify the core..

Re: Trying to figure out the advantage in a separte template directory

Shahways Romani — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 07:20:27 CDT

Same here ... pure simplicity and getting this organized. In larger projects, I end up with a lot of controllers and actions, with some QPanels even having different states (and therefore different templates) ... If I have to put all these templates in one folder, the overview would be completely lost, hence the separate dir.

Re: Codegen and QQueries as standalone scripts

kentpachi — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 06:10:29 CDT

Thx for those tips

I'll take a look on it!

Re: Include Form/Panel specific Javscript or CSS

Geert Heremans — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 03:36:20 CDT

Hi Erik,

thanx for your reply> ill check it out as soon as I can. Anyway lots of kudos for your CMS!
Took a look at it while ago, the demo site is quite useful.

best regards
Geert

Re: Include Form/Panel specific Javscript or CSS

Erik Winn — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:53:18 CDT

erg .. I start to feel funny as I keep mentioning my silly little CMS, but check out the Quasi sources; this is exactly how it handles CSS and Javascript now .. except I don't use QCodo functions, files are loaded by page -> scriptname from expected directories and placed in the of the page (see index.tpl.php). There are tables that define the associations so that it can be easily administered.

HTH,
--erik

Re: Codegen and QQueries as standalone scripts

Erik Winn — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:37:32 CDT

Not sure if this is what you are asking but, all of the ORM classes go into:

define ('__DATA_CLASSES__', __INCLUDES__ . '/data_classes');
define ('__DATAGEN_CLASSES__', __INCLUDES__ . '/data_classes/generated');

where __INCLUDES__ is usually qcodo/wwwroot/includes/.

So, these are the ones that you want. You can also define these directories to be somewhere else (Quasi does this) and you can change the require() statement at the top of the child classes by copying
includes/qcodo/_core/codegen/templates/db_orm/class_subclass/_main.tpl
to
includes/qcodo/codegen/templates/db_orm/class_subclass/_main.tpl
and then editing the 2nd line at the top; change __DATAGEN_CLASSES__ to be where you put the base classes.

Then all you need to do is require the child class and off you go!

Note: the way that QCodo uses these without include()/require() is that there is an array of classnames created on generation and it is loaded by QApplication and used in the Autoload method. Look in the DATAGEN directory and you will find a file named _class_paths_inc.php.

Re: Custom Autoload

Erik Winn — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:09:36 CDT

Good point about the Quasi upload page - I have just updated it; thanks!

Re: Trying to figure out the advantage in a separte template directory

Erik Winn — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:36:16 CDT

Hi stromee,

Its a good question actually - and really just a matter of taste and/or tradition. You might argue something like "Well, that way you can give permissions to the designers to work in the templates directory...". But for me it is more for organization; if I have many files it is easier to know where to find which kind of file by categorizing them in directories. Then when I list the directory I don't have 100 files - less cognitive overhead for me. And it enforces some of the MVC concept, it helps to make it explicit that one part of the model resides here, one part resides there - its part of software architecture and has been done for years. For example *nix systems do this with the file system: bin/ holds binary executables, lib/ holds libraries, etc .. this means that if you have software you know where it goes and you know where to look easily if you need to fix or change something and it is easier to script maintaining facilities. Another example: in Quasi, where you put a class or CSS file may determine when it is loaded - CSS cascades from core/ to contrib/ and finally local, the file can have the same name. Classes are loaded in reverse, so if you want to modify a core class you can simply copy it to local/classes and make changes and Quasi will use that. If I put everything in one directory I couldn't acheive this. That is not exactly a reason to have a templates directory but the motivating principle is the same; in the future I plan to have Quasi look in template directories and set the template automagically the way it does now with CSS, *.php and javascript.

But in the last analysis, having all the files in one directory just gets to be annoying - that's probably the main reason. Some may have a better and more "real" technical reason but for me that's a lot of it ..

My 0.2 cents.

--erik

Re: Trying to figure out the advantage in a separte template directory

stromee — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:29:17 CDT

Hello,

I notice a few new projects (MVC by Shahways or Quasi by Erik) have a separate template's (or views) directory to hold all template files to follow the MVC pattern. My question is, what advantage does this give?

All I can see is that it makes it really annoying to specify where the template resides. For example, if I have 3 datagrids, I have to define the location of where they're at each time. If I just stuck them in the same directory as my script, I wouldn't have to do that.

I guess I don't see an advantage to making a separate VIEWS directory for template files.

Chris

Re: EncodingType in QEmailServer

fecool — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:29:04 CDT

I ran in this problem before, unfortunately not with QCodo.
The problem is that the mail-rfc-says that content-type does only effect the mail body; by convention the mail-header always has to be ASCII. And the Subject-field resides in mail header!

Nevertheless: there is an oppurtinaty to escape special chars in subject... i will try to find my code again.

Re: QCodo and Joomla

LinHiNun — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:11:23 CDT

Yeah, I have been researching it. After much time invested into Qcodo, I am switching to Cake.

Cake seems much more "baked" and seems to have a larger user base. More importantly, it has a Joomla 1.5 plugin, that worked almost seamlessly. It took me about 5 minutes to have a skeleton application working in my joomla framework.

This keeps me focused on the business logic, not the framework.

Thanks for the support, and good luck with qcodo's own CMS.

Re: Custom Autoload

stromee — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:53:04 CDT

Hillar,

That looks like it may work as well. Thanks, I'll take a peek at that too.

Chris

Changing the time increment on QDateTimePicker (ext)

Collino — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:10:31 CDT

Hello all....I have successfully implemented a QDateTimePicker using Chris Peterson's extension: http://www.qcodo.com/forums/topic.php/721/1//?strSearch=qdatetimepickerext

All works well - basically I have 2 fields, start and stop, and stop cannot be before start, among other things, this is all controlled by an QChangeEvent using ajax as follows:


protected function event_Start_Change($strFormId, $strControlId, $strParameter) {
            if($this->dtEventStart->DateTime ) {
                if($this->dtEventStart->DateTime->Year > $this->now->Year) {
                    $this->dtEventStart->MinimumMonth = 1;
                    $this->dtEventStart->MinimumDay = 1;
                } else if($this->dtEventStart->DateTime->Year == $this->now->Year) {
                    $this->dtEventStart->MinimumMonth = $this->now->Month ;
                    $this->dtEventStart->MinimumDay = $this->now->Day;
                }            
                if($this->dtEventStart->DateTime->Month > $this->now->Month) {
                    $this->dtEventStart->MinimumDay = 1;
                }            
            } else {
                $this->dtEventStart->DateTime = new QDateTime(QDateTime::Now);
                $this->dtEventStart->MinimumYear = $this->now->Year;
                $this->dtEventStart->MinimumMonth = $this->now->Month;
                $this->dtEventStart->MinimumDay = $this->now->Day;
            }
            
            $this->dtEventStop->DateTime = $this->dtEventStart->DateTime->AddHours(+3);
            $this->dtEventStop->MinimumMonth = $this->dtEventStart->DateTime->Month;
            $this->dtEventStop->MinimumDay = $this->dtEventStart->DateTime->Day;
            $this->dtEventStop->MinimumYear = $this->dtEventStart->DateTime->Year;
            $this->dtEventStop->MaximumYear = $this->dtEventStart->DateTime->Year +1;
            
        }

The datetime picker works well, however the user is able to pick a time for the stop which is earlier than the start - not a massive problem as I can catch this in form validation. Is there any way to enforce this on the control (as with the minimumday/month/year as above)?

Also, and probably more importantly - is it possible to change the increment of the minute picker, e.g. 5/10/15 minute increments as scrolling through every minute 0 - 59 is quite tedious?

If anyone can help that would be great!