Re: [MRBS-general] FW: Auto filling out Full Description box

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Yes, that should be correct.

Can you insert

var_dump($name);

var_dump($custom_fields);

var_dump($POST);

var_dump($HTTP_POST_VARS);

just after 

$name=$custom_fields['Teacher'];

and tell me what you get.

Thanks,

Campbell

From: Max Goulden [mailto:ma...@fm...] 
Sent: 09 December 2013 14:19
To: ma...@ca...; 'General purpose list
(support/developers/users)'
Subject: RE: [MRBS-general] FW: Auto filling out Full Description box

    $var = VAR_PREFIX . $field['name'];

    $custom_fields[$field['name']] = get_form_var($var, $f_type);

    if (($f_type == 'int') && ($custom_fields[$field['name']] === ''))

    {

      $custom_fields[$field['name']] = NULL;

    }

  }

}

$name=$custom_fields['Teacher'];

// (3) Clean up the form variables

// -------------------------------

// Form validation checks.   Normally checked for client side.

// Don't bother with them if this is an Ajax request.

if (!$ajax)

{

  if ($name == '')

  {

    invalid_booking(get_vocab('must_set_description'));

  }       

Is that correct as this give the older error "Invalid Booking you must set a
brief description for the booking.."

Max

From: Campbell Morrison [mailto:cam...@gm...] 
Sent: 09 December 2013 2:04 PM
To: 'General purpose list (support/developers/users)'
Subject: Re: [MRBS-general] FW: Auto filling out Full Description box

Should be

$name=$custom_fields['Teacher'];

// (3) Clean up the form variables

// -------------------------------

// Form validation checks.   Normally checked for client side.

// Don't bother with them if this is an Ajax request.

if (!$ajax)

{

  if ($name == '')

From: Max Goulden [mailto:ma...@fm...] 
Sent: 09 December 2013 13:59
To: ma...@ca... <mailto:ma...@ca...> ;
'General purpose list (support/developers/users)'
Subject: RE: [MRBS-general] FW: Auto filling out Full Description box

these are the lines I have adjusted;

// (3) Clean up the form variables

// -------------------------------

// Form validation checks.   Normally checked for client side.

// Don't bother with them if this is an Ajax request.

if (!$ajax)

{

  if $name=$custom_fields['Teacher'];

It throws up another error "Parse error: syntax error, unexpected
T_VARIABLE, expecting '(' in /volume1/web/room/edit_entry_handler.php on
line 150"

Max

From: Campbell Morrison [mailto:cam...@gm...] 
Sent: 09 December 2013 11:53 AM
To: 'General purpose list (support/developers/users)'
Subject: Re: [MRBS-general] FW: Auto filling out Full Description box

You need to get rid of that name box and also overwrite the name field with
the teacher by inserting

$name = $custom_fields['Teacher'];

at line 142 in edit_entry_handler.php

Campbell

From: Max Goulden [mailto:ma...@fm...] 
Sent: 06 December 2013 15:55
To: ma...@ca... <mailto:ma...@ca...> ;
'General purpose list (support/developers/users)'
Subject: RE: [MRBS-general] FW: Auto filling out Full Description box

I did but that just get rid of the name 'box' and give you the error
'Invalid booking...'

Max

From: Campbell Morrison [mailto:cam...@gm...] 
Sent: 06 December 2013 3:50 PM
To: 'General purpose list (support/developers/users)'
Subject: Re: [MRBS-general] FW: Auto filling out Full Description box

Looks like you haven't commented out the Brief Description field in
edit_entry.php (line 1132 - see below)

Campbell

From: Max Goulden [mailto:ma...@fm...] 
Sent: 06 December 2013 15:45
To: ma...@ca... <mailto:ma...@ca...> ;
'General purpose list (support/developers/users)'
Subject: RE: [MRBS-general] FW: Auto filling out Full Description box

I put that in edit_entry_handler line 150 but still getting the error 

as attached

Max

From: Campbell Morrison [mailto:cam...@gm...] 
Sent: 06 December 2013 1:48 PM
To: 'General purpose list (support/developers/users)'
Subject: Re: [MRBS-general] FW: Auto filling out Full Description box

OK.   Sorry, it should have been

$name = $custom_fields['Teacher'];

Campbell

From: Max Goulden [mailto:ma...@fm...] 
Sent: 06 December 2013 13:44
To: ma...@ca... <mailto:ma...@ca...> ;
'General purpose list (support/developers/users)'
Subject: RE: [MRBS-general] FW: Auto filling out Full Description box

Not a mistake...

No worries I understand how picky php is with capitals, so had already put
them in.

Max

From: Campbell Morrison [mailto:cam...@gm...] 
Sent: 06 December 2013 1:37 PM
To: 'General purpose list (support/developers/users)'
Subject: Re: [MRBS-general] FW: Auto filling out Full Description box

Sorry - hope you spotted my mistake and used

$name = $Teacher;

and not

$name = $teacher;

Campbell

From: Max Goulden [mailto:ma...@fm...] 
Sent: 06 December 2013 13:30
To: ma...@ca... <mailto:ma...@ca...> ;
'General purpose list (support/developers/users)'
Subject: RE: [MRBS-general] FW: Auto filling out Full Description box

like this

$select_options['entry.Teacher'] = array('Mrs1', 'Miss1', 'Mrs2', 'Miss2');

$select_options['entry.Form'] = array('VR', 'VAE', 'VY', 'VHG');

$select_options['entry.Subject'] = array('Maths', 'English', 'Science',
'Art');

From: Campbell Morrison [mailto:cam...@gm...] 
Sent: 06 December 2013 1:19 PM
To: 'General purpose list (support/developers/users)'
Subject: Re: [MRBS-general] FW: Auto filling out Full Description box

How have you made the drop_down array for the teacher?   Have you used
$select_options?   Can you post your $select_options here, anonymising names
if necessary?

Campbell

From: Max Goulden [mailto:ma...@fm...] 
Sent: 06 December 2013 13:17
To: ma...@ca... <mailto:ma...@ca...> ;
'General purpose list (support/developers/users)'
Subject: RE: [MRBS-general] FW: Auto filling out Full Description box

yes its showing the back ground colour

From: Campbell Morrison [mailto:cam...@gm...] 
Sent: 06 December 2013 1:09 PM
To: 'General purpose list (support/developers/users)'
Subject: Re: [MRBS-general] FW: Auto filling out Full Description box

So how do you know that the booking has been made?   Has the colour of the
slot changed?

Campbell

From: Max Goulden [mailto:ma...@fm...] 
Sent: 06 December 2013 12:46
To: ma...@ca... <mailto:ma...@ca...> ;
'General purpose list (support/developers/users)'
Subject: RE: [MRBS-general] FW: Auto filling out Full Description box

Do you mean that you can see a slot booked out because the colour has
changed, but that there's no description in the box?  yes

nothing to click (before it was what was ever enter into the 'name' box
showed up and was selectable).

Max

From: Campbell Morrison [mailto:cam...@gm...] 
Sent: 06 December 2013 12:15 PM
To: 'General purpose list (support/developers/users)'
Subject: Re: [MRBS-general] FW: Auto filling out Full Description box

Sorry, not quite sure what you mean.    Do you mean that you can see a slot
booked out because the colour has changed, but that there's no description
in the box?   If so what happens when you click on the slot - is the
description filled in on the view_entry page?

Campbell

From: Max Goulden [mailto:ma...@fm...] 
Sent: 06 December 2013 12:00
To: ma...@ca... <mailto:ma...@ca...> ;
'General purpose list (support/developers/users)'
Subject: RE: [MRBS-general] FW: Auto filling out Full Description box

Nearly there...

It won't echo what should be automatically transferred into the "name". So
you can see by the missing lines in the calendar view that something is
booked out

but no txt to click onto to see the booking.

Max

From: Campbell Morrison [mailto:cam...@gm...] 
Sent: 06 December 2013 9:56 AM
To: 'General purpose list (support/developers/users)'
Subject: Re: [MRBS-general] FW: Auto filling out Full Description box

You need to overwrite the $name variable much earlier in
edit_entry_handler.php, so that there's something there before the check for
an empty field.   I'd do it as soon as all the custom form variables have
been read in, ie about line 142 in the 1.4.10 version.

$name = $teacher;

By the way, in edit_entry.php there's no need to comment out the function at
lines 231-252.   Just comment out the line where it's called line 1132, ie

// create_field_entry_name();

Campbell

From: Max Goulden [mailto:ma...@fm...] 
Sent: 06 December 2013 09:45
To: ma...@ca... <mailto:ma...@ca...> ;
'General purpose list (support/developers/users)'
Subject: RE: [MRBS-general] FW: Auto filling out Full Description box

Sorry but I keep getting this coming up 

"Invalid booking

You must set a brief description for the booking. Please go back and enter
one."

In edit_entry.php I have commented out lines 231-252 starts function
create_field_entry_name..

also line 1131  case 'name':... 

and in the file edit_entry_handler.php  changed line 584 $booking ['name'] =
$Teacher;

Again thanks

Max

From: Campbell Morrison [mailto:cam...@gm...] 
Sent: 03 December 2013 6:00 PM
To: 'General purpose list (support/developers/users)'
Subject: Re: [MRBS-general] FW: Auto filling out Full Description box

OK - well same thing, except overwrite $name (as the brief description is
called, a little confusingly).

Campbell

From: Max Goulden [mailto:ma...@fm...] 
Sent: 03 December 2013 17:54
To: ma...@ca... <mailto:ma...@ca...> ;
'General purpose list (support/developers/users)'
Subject: RE: [MRBS-general] FW: Auto filling out Full Description box

Sorry

Just got back and realised I had commented out the "Brief description"
comment (in an earlier session), THIS is where I need

the information from peoples selection to automatically go(hope that makes
sense)

Again your help is much appreciated as I have only just started to learn
php, and this seems like an ideal

project to do.

Max

From: Campbell Morrison [mailto:cam...@gm...] 
Sent: 03 December 2013 11:00 AM
To: 'General purpose list (support/developers/users)'
Subject: Re: [MRBS-general] FW: Auto filling out Full Description box

OK, I understand.   You'd need to modify MRBS to do this and so would need
some knowledge of PHP.    However the changes are fairly small.   The
easiest thing to do would be to

-          Remove/comment out the description field from the edit_entry.php
page

-          In edit_entry_handler.php overwrite $description with the
teacher, form and subject information

This would achieve the result you want, though the teacher/form/subject
information would be replicated in the database, which wouldn't be seen by
your users and also whenever the description field appears in MRBS, eg in
viewentry.php and reports.     You could fix that by commenting out those
fields as well.

Campbell

From: Max Goulden [mailto:ma...@fm...] 
Sent: 03 December 2013 10:37
To: ma...@ca... <mailto:ma...@ca...> ;
'General purpose list (support/developers/users)'
Subject: RE: [MRBS-general] FW: Auto filling out Full Description box

Thanks for the reply.

Only because it what they see looking at the general calendar i.e. what in
the description box

From: Campbell Morrison [mailto:cam...@gm...] 
Sent: 03 December 2013 9:47 AM
To: 'General purpose list (support/developers/users)'
Subject: Re: [MRBS-general] FW: Auto filling out Full Description box

If you already have the Teacher, Form and Subject information do you need to
replicate it in the Description?

Campbell

From: Max Goulden [mailto:ma...@fm...] 
Sent: 03 December 2013 09:43
To: mrb...@li...
<mailto:mrb...@li...> 
Subject: [MRBS-general] FW: Auto filling out Full Description box

Hi,

I am new to php, 

and finding your time tabling system looks as though it would be very useful
to the school where I work.

What I am trying to do is auto filling out the description box with drop
down arrays I have made below it i.e. Teacher, Form, Subject

so that teachers using it would not have to fill in the description's box. 

See attached

Thanks for any help.

Hurlingham School Ltd. is a company registered in England and Wales.
Registered number:03921517. Registered office: 122 Putney Bridge Road,
London SW15 2NQ.