Re: [Pagekit-devel] Error message from missing fields

[Boris Z. <bo...@am...>]

Hi Bill,

Am Donnerstag, 6. M=E4rz 2003 00:06 schrieb Bill Karwin:
> Hi,
>
> May I suggest a change to the reporting of missing mandatory fields?  T=
he

Yes, sure.

> error report for missing fields is hard-coded to describe the mandatory
> fields as "red".  This limits the HTML designer to match color schemes,=
 and
> also confuses users if I have set errorspan_begin_tag to something othe=
r
> than the color red.  I want to establish a different visual cue than si=
mply
> color.

It is done this way, to be full backward compatible to older PageKit's. B=
ut=20
the error message ( 'You did not fill out all the required ...' is passed=
 to=20
the gettext extension. So you can change this message ( and all other=20
[error]messages ) to whatever you like without changing the code of Model=
.pm.=20
The big advantage of this approach is that you can have different sites w=
ith=20
different errormessages. Or different errormessages for the language of t=
he=20
user!

a example for this is in

eg/contrib/locale/README

And this works also for every message of your application too.

>
> I have changed Model.pm line 171:
>
>      $model->pkit_gettext_message(qq{You did not fill out all the requi=
red
> fields. Please fill the <font color=3D"<PKIT_ERRORSTR>">red</font> fiel=
ds.});
>
> To this code (based on pkit_set_errorfont()):
>
>      my $color_str =3D $model->pkit_get_config_attr( GLOBAL =3D>
> 'default_errorstr' ) || "#ff0000";
>      my $errorspan_begin_tag =3D $model->pkit_get_config_attr( GLOBAL =3D=
>
> 'errorspan_begin_tag' ) || qq{<font color=3D"$color_str">};
>      my $errorspan_end_tag =3D $model->pkit_get_config_attr( GLOBAL =3D=
>
> 'errorspan_end_tag' ) || q{</font>};
>      $model->pkit_gettext_message('You did not fill out all the ' .
> $errorspan_begin_tag . 'mandatory' . $errorspan_end_tag . ' fields.');
>
> Now I can use the Config.xml GLOBAL attributes default_errorstr,
> errorspan_begin_tag, and errorspan_end_tag to set the style of the erro=
r
> message, without the message describing the style.
>
> Regards,
> Bill Karwin

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Boris