How to retreive form name - (CreateFormStart generated)

[nervino]

Hi All,
I'm using CreateFormStart to make a Form that has several checkboxes in it. In the template I put a javascript with a "select all" function and a HREF that fires this function.
Is there a way to grab the form's name generated by CreateFormStart()?

I've read the source of the parsed page and the form's name is "m1_moduleform_2".
If I put this name in the HREF it works:

Code: Select all

<a href="javascript:SetAllCheckBoxes('m1_moduleform_2', 'delete[]', true);">

but, is it posible to dynamically retreive the form's name?

Thank you

[Ted]

There's no way to retrieve the form's name.  But, you could pass a 'class="targetme"' into the $extra parameter.  Then grab the first item from getElementFromClassName('targetme');, assuming you have a library (or grab one from google -- http://robertnyman.com/2008/05/27/the-u ... anno-2008/).

Not a perfect solution, but it works.

[nervino]

Not a perfect solution, but it works.

That's important! Thank you Ted, I'll try it.

[NaN]

Whenever i use 'class="myForm"' or 'name="myForm"' in the extra parameter of CreateFormStart()
i get 'class="myForm"'.
This is because the function cms_module_CreateFormStart() in the lib/modform.inc.php converts everything that is passed to that function with cms_htmlentities(); into HTML entities.

So what is the $extra param for if i cannot use quotes

[NaN]

So what is the $extra param for if i cannot use quotes

May i point someones interest in this question again?
I know i just need to disable one line in the modform.inc.php.
But is this really neccessary?
I mean who enters the $extra param when creating a form by using the cmsms module api function CreateFormStart()?
I believe there is no other man than a developer.
It is not possible to inject malicious code from outside with a classname oder a name attribute of form.
And no developer would use weird strings when calling this function.

So again, why is the $extra param converted with cms_htmlentities()
In my opinion there is no need to do this, isn't it?