Re: [Phpwebsite-developers] A couple early observations while modding for 1.x

[Shaun M. <sh...@ae...>]

On 4 Dec 2006, at 03:06, Verdon Vaillancourt wrote:

>
> 2) It would be nice if there was a way to have /core/class/Form.php
> prepend a required indicator to a field label. Maybe something like
> '<span class="error">*</span>&nbsp;' could be prepended to a field
> label if the label was called like...
>
> $form->setLabel('email', _('Contact E-mail'), $required) or...
>
> $form->setLabel('email', _('Contact E-mail'))
> $form->setRequired('email')
>
> ... at first I tried just adding it to my label string, not realizing
> the basic label value also gets added as a var to the actual field.  
> Doh!
>

How about using <label> for labels and using <label class="required">  
where you set the class of the label in the setLabel function. That  
would be more flexible, and semantically correct.

ie. $form->setLabel('email', _('Contact E-mail'), $class)



Shaun
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