Forms module - defaults to textarea not input

JohnnyN2O · November 2014

Forms module default field is a textarea, not input, which I think is unexpected. This also causes the ckeditor javascript to be included when not wanted.

fuel/config/custom_fields.php, wysiwyg custom field represents includes text inputs,


// fuel/modules/fuel/config/custom_fields.php

// Wysiwyg field
$fields['wysiwyg'] = array(
	'class'	=> array(FUEL_FOLDER => 'Fuel_custom_fields'),
	'function' => 'wysiwyg',
	'filepath' => '',
	'js' => array(
		FUEL_FOLDER => array(
			'editors/markitup/jquery.markitup',
			'editors/markitup/jquery.markitup.set',
			'editors/ckeditor/ckeditor.js',
			'editors/ckeditor/config.js',
		)
	),
	'js_function' => 'fuel.fields.wysiwyg_field',
	'represents' => array('text', 'textarea', 'longtext', 'mediumtext')
);

Simple fix is to change the custom field in application/config/custom_fields.php but should be changed in module config.

admin · November 2014

Yes. I agree it's a little strange and something that was debated. The reason the "represents" includes a type of "text" is so that it easily maps to database columns that are of type "text" in which we would want a textarea instead of a text input. If you don't want a field to be a "textarea" you can simply just set the "type" => NULL for your field.

JohnnyN2O · November 2014

type => NULL doesn't work when using the forms module.

JohnnyN2O · November 2014

Works


 'ignore_representative' => TRUE

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