hidden fields in forms module

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• admin

  April 2016 edited 10:56AM

  Need more information.
• kpjpowers

  April 2016 edited 10:56AM

  added hidden fields in form module but when form is submitted the values of the hidden fields do not appear in the database
• admin

  April 2016 edited 10:56AM

  Hidden fields are cleaned out of the data that is to be saved. An alternative would be to just visually hide an input field.
• kpjpowers

  April 2016 edited 10:56AM

  Any way I can override that behaviour without modifying the module
• admin

  April 2016 edited April 2016

  You would have to extend the Fuel_forms class and overwrite the clean_posted method and then somewhere in your code you'll need to overwrite it by calling the attach method on FUEL:
  $form= new My_fuel_form(); $this->fuel->attach('form', $form);
• kpjpowers

  April 2016 edited 10:56AM

  OK thank you will take a look at doing that
• kpjpowers

  April 2016 edited 10:56AM

  tried the above but it never calls my cleaned_post function in the extended MY_fuel_form is there something else im missing
• admin

  April 2016 edited 10:56AM

  Is the attach happening before you are calling the cleaned_post function?
• kpjpowers

  April 2016 edited 10:56AM

  Yes looking at extending the forms class as well but not having much sucess
• admin

  April 2016 edited 10:56AM

  Try adding your class to the fuel/application/libraries/My_fuel_form. Then in your fuel/application/config/MY_fuel.php there is a $config['attach'] parameter you can use to attach it:
  $config['attach'] = array( 'forms' => 'my_fuel_form' );
• kpjpowers

  April 2016 edited 10:56AM

  thank you ive now gone down a different root. I would like to ask if it may be possible to do a multistep form in the forms module any suggestions would be grateful before i start pulling things apart
• admin

  April 2016 edited 10:56AM

  The forms module does not support automatically creating a multi step form unfortunately.