Class: I2CE FormStorage

This article describes the class I2CE_FormStorage.

• Extends the class: I2CE_Module.
• Location: Part of the module forms-storage in the package I2CE
• Source: Defined in the file modules/Forms/modules/FormStorage/lib/I2CE_FormStorage.php
• Author: Carl Leitner <litlfred@ibiblio.org>
• Since: 3.2

I2CE_Module_FormStorage

Variables

$componentized_forms

A cached list of componentized forms. array of string, the form names

• Type: static protected static $componentized_forms

$storage

An array with a cache of the storage type for a form.

• Type: static protected array $storage

$storageMechs

An array with a cache of the storage mechanisms

• Type: static protected array $storageMechs

Methods

FF_IG_save()

Save the FormField to the database.

• Signature: public function FF_IG_save($form_field,$do_check,$user)
• Parameters:
  • $form_field
  • boolean $do_check
    A flag to determine if a check should be made for the same value being saved. @param I2CE_User I2CE_User The user saving this data.
  • $user
• Returns: boolean
• Defined in i2ce/modules/Forms/modules/FormStorage/lib/I2CE_FormStorage.php on line 1127

FF_IG_setSequence()

Set the value of this field to the next sequence for the form field.

• Signature: public function FF_IG_setSequence($form_field)
• Parameters:
  • I2CE_FormField_INT_GENERATE $form_field
• Defined in i2ce/modules/Forms/modules/FormStorage/lib/I2CE_FormStorage.php on line 1185

FF_SP_save()

Save the FormField_STRING_PASS to the database.

• Signature: public function FF_SP_save($form_field,$do_check,$user)
• Parameters:
  • I2CE_FormField_STRING_PASS $form_field
  • boolean $do_check
    A flag to determine if a check should be made for the same value being saved. @param I2CE_User I2CE_User The user saving this data.
  • $user
• Returns: boolean
• Defined in i2ce/modules/Forms/modules/FormStorage/lib/I2CE_FormStorage.php on line 1156

FF_populateHistory()

Populate the history of entries for the form field if the storage module handles history.

• Signature: public function FF_populateHistory($form_field)
• Parameters:
  • I2CE_FormField $form_field
• Returns: boolean
• Defined in i2ce/modules/Forms/modules/FormStorage/lib/I2CE_FormStorage.php on line 1205

FF_save()

Save the FormField to the database.

• Signature: public function FF_save($form_field,$do_check,$user)
• Parameters:
  • I2CE_FormField $form_field
  • boolean $do_check
    A flag to determine if a check should be made for the same value being saved. @param I2CE_User I2CE_User The user saving this data.
  • $user
• Returns: boolean
• Defined in i2ce/modules/Forms/modules/FormStorage/lib/I2CE_FormStorage.php on line 1103

addChild()

add the given child to the form for this object.

• Signature: public function addChild($form,$form_name,$id)
• Parameters:
  • I2CE_Form $form
  • string $form_name
    The form name to add @param string the id of this form
  • $id
• Defined in i2ce/modules/Forms/modules/FormStorage/lib/I2CE_FormStorage.php on line 925

delete()

Delete a form object.

• Signature: public function delete($form,$transact,$complete,$no_history)
• Parameters:
  • I2CE_Form $form
  • boolean $transact
    a flag to use transactions or not. default: true
    • Default Value: true
  • boolean $complete
    a flag to determine if a complete delete should happen. default: false
    • Default Value: false
  • boolean $no_history
    a flag to determine if the record should not go to the deleted_records table. default: false
    • Default Value: false
• Returns: boolean
• Defined in i2ce/modules/Forms/modules/FormStorage/lib/I2CE_FormStorage.php on line 1068

getChildIds()

Gets the id's for the given child for this form.

• Signature: public function getChildIds($form,$child_form_name,$order_by,$where,$limit)
• Parameters:
  • I2CE_Form $form
  • string $child_form_name
    the child form name
  • mixed $order_by
    A string or array of strings. The fields to oreder by . defaults to empty array.
    • Default Value: array()
  • $where
    • Default Value: array()
  • mixed $limit
    Defaults to false. It true, returns only one result. If an integer it is the numeber of records to limit to. If it is as an array of two integers, it is the offset and then number of results to limit to.
    • Default Value: false
• Returns: array
• Defined in i2ce/modules/Forms/modules/FormStorage/lib/I2CE_FormStorage.php on line 906

getComponentizedForms()

static function which gets a list of all componentized forms

• Signature: static public function getComponentizedForms($use_cache)
• Parameters:
  • boolean $use_cache
    Use the cached value of the list for componentized forms if possible. Defualts to true
    • Default Value: true
• Returns: array
  of string, the componentized forms
• Defined in i2ce/modules/Forms/modules/FormStorage/lib/I2CE_FormStorage.php on line 162

getHooks()

• Signature: static public function getHooks()
• Defined in i2ce/modules/Forms/modules/FormStorage/lib/I2CE_FormStorage.php on line 76

getMechanismByStorage()

Returns the storage mechanism for the given storage type.

• Signature: static public function getMechanismByStorage($storage)
• Parameters:
  • string $storage
• Returns: I2CE_FormStorage_Mechanism
  or false on failure
• Defined in i2ce/modules/Forms/modules/FormStorage/lib/I2CE_FormStorage.php on line 232

getMethods()

• Signature: static public function getMethods()
• Defined in i2ce/modules/Forms/modules/FormStorage/lib/I2CE_FormStorage.php on line 42

getMigratedValue()

Get the new value for a field that has been migrated.

• Signature: static public function getMigratedValue($migrate_node,$form,$old_id,$field,$map_form)
• Parameters:
  • I2CE_MagicDataNode $migrate_node
  • string $form
  • mixed $old_id
  • string $field
  • mixed $map_form
• Returns: string
• Defined in i2ce/modules/Forms/modules/FormStorage/lib/I2CE_FormStorage.php on line 350

getNewMigratedValue()

Get the new migrated value for from the old value. @param mixed $old_id

• Signature: static public function getNewMigratedValue($migrate_node,$map_form,$old_value,$old_amt)
• Parameters:
  • I2CE_MagicDataNode $migrate_node
  • string $map_form
  • $old_value
  • integer $old_amt
    For currency data this is the amount
    • Default Value: 0
• Returns: mixed
• Defined in i2ce/modules/Forms/modules/FormStorage/lib/I2CE_FormStorage.php on line 327

getOldMigratedValue()

Get the old value for a field that has been migrated.

• Signature: static public function getOldMigratedValue($migrate_node,$form,$old_id,$field,$map_form)
• Parameters:
  • I2CE_MagicDataNode $migrate_node
  • string $form
  • mixed $old_id
  • string $field
  • mixed $map_form
• Returns: array
  array( 'map_form', 'old_value' );
• Defined in i2ce/modules/Forms/modules/FormStorage/lib/I2CE_FormStorage.php on line 276

getRecords()

Return an array of all the record ids for a given form.

• Signature: public function getRecords($factory,$form_name)
• Parameters:
  • I2CE_FormFactory $factory
  • $form_name
• Returns: array
• Defined in i2ce/modules/Forms/modules/FormStorage/lib/I2CE_FormStorage.php on line 1230

getStorage()

Return the storage class for the given form.

• Signature: static public function getStorage($form_name,$no_cache)
• Parameters:
  • string $form_name
  • boolean $no_cache
    Check from the source, not the cached array
    • Default Value: false
• Returns: string
• Defined in i2ce/modules/Forms/modules/FormStorage/lib/I2CE_FormStorage.php on line 192

getStorageMechanism()

• Signature: static public function getStorageMechanism($form_name,$no_cache)
• Parameters:
  • string $form_name
  • boolean $no_cache
    Check from the source, not the cached array
    • Default Value: false
• Returns: I2CE_FormStorage_Mechanism
  or false on failure
• Defined in i2ce/modules/Forms/modules/FormStorage/lib/I2CE_FormStorage.php on line 222

isComponentized()

static function to determine if a form is componentized

• Signature: static public function isComponentized($form)
• Parameters:
  • string $form
• Returns: boolean
• Defined in i2ce/modules/Forms/modules/FormStorage/lib/I2CE_FormStorage.php on line 139

isComponentizedForm()

Fuzzy method to check if a form instance is componentized

• Signature: public function isComponentizedForm($formClass)
• Parameters:
  • I2CE_Form $formClass
• Returns: boolean
• Defined in i2ce/modules/Forms/modules/FormStorage/lib/I2CE_FormStorage.php on line 763

isWritable()

Check to see if this form is considered to be writable.

• Signature: static public function isWritable($form)
• Parameters:
  • mixed $form
    string, I2CE_Form or I2CE_FormField
• Defined in i2ce/modules/Forms/modules/FormStorage/lib/I2CE_FormStorage.php on line 1253

listDisplayFields()

Lists the display values for a field

• Signature: static public function listDisplayFields($form,$fields,$parent,$where_data,$ordering,$limit,$mod_time)
• Parameters:
  • string $form
    The form name
  • array $fields
    of string. The fields we want returned
  • boolean $parent
    Defaults to false. If it is scalar and non-boolean, it is consider to be the ID of the parent, and then we get all forms with parent the given id.
    • Default Value: false
  • mixed $where_data
    Either I2CE_MagicDataNode or array. contains the where clause information about this form or a nested
    • Default Value: array()
  • array $ordering
    An array of fields to order by. Defaults to the empty array. Prepend a - to order by in descending order.
    • Default Value: array()
  • mixed $limit
    Defaults to false. It true, returns only one result. If an integer it is the numeber of records to limit to. If it is as an array of two integers, it is the offset and then number of results to limit to.
    • Default Value: false
  • integer $mod_time
    Defaults to -1. If non-negative, we only list the requested fields for an id if at least one of them has a modification time greater than or equal to $mod_time. If the form storage has no way of tracking modifucation time, all entries are listed.
    • Default Value: -1
• Returns: mixed
  an array with key id's and value and array of values. the array of values has as keys the fields with their corresponding value.
• Defined in i2ce/modules/Forms/modules/FormStorage/lib/I2CE_FormStorage.php on line 735

listFields()

• Signature: static public function listFields($form,$fields,$parent,$where_data,$ordering,$limit,$mod_time)
• Parameters:
  • string $form
    The form name
  • array $fields
    of string. The fields we want returned
  • boolean $parent
    Defaults to false. If it is scalar and non-boolean, it is consider to be the ID of the parent, and then we get all forms with parent the given id.
    • Default Value: false
  • mixed $where_data
    Either I2CE_MagicDataNode or array. contains the where clause information about this form or a nested
    • Default Value: array()
  • array $ordering
    An array of fields to order by. Defaults to the empty array. Prepend a - to order by in descending order.
    • Default Value: array()
  • mixed $limit
    Defaults to false. It true, returns only one result. If an integer it is the numeber of records to limit to. If it is as an array of two integers, it is the offset and then number of results to limit to.
    • Default Value: false
  • integer $mod_time
    Defaults to -1. If non-negative, we only list the requested fields for an id if at least one of them has a modification time greater than or equal to $mod_time. If the form storage has no way of tracking modifucation time, all entries are listed.
    • Default Value: -1
• Returns: mixed
  an array with key id's and value and array of values. the array of values has as keys the fields with their corresponding value.
• Defined in i2ce/modules/Forms/modules/FormStorage/lib/I2CE_FormStorage.php on line 709

lookupDisplayField()

Looks up the display value of the item based on the code. This is the default method that most implementations of lookup () use. It finds the description of the object based on the code and saves it in the cache and returns it.

• Signature: static public function lookupDisplayField($form,$id,$fields,$delim)
• Parameters:
  • string $form
    The name of the form in the database.
  • integer $id
    The code of the entry to lookup.
  • mixed $fields
    A field or an array of fields to look up and return. Defaults to 'name'
    • Default Value: array('name')
  • string $delim
    The delimiter to put between returned fields if there are more than one. If false , then we return as an array. Defaults to '-'
    • Default Value: '-'
• Returns: string
  or false on failure
• Defined in i2ce/modules/Forms/modules/FormStorage/lib/I2CE_FormStorage.php on line 680

lookupField()

Looks up the dbvalue of the item based on the code. This is the default method that most implementations of lookup () use. It finds the description of the object based on the code and saves it in the cache and returns it.

• Signature: static public function lookupField($form,$id,$fields,$delim)
• Parameters:
  • string $form
    The name of the form in the database.
  • integer $id
    The code of the entry to lookup.
  • mixed $fields
    A field or an array of fields to look up and return. Defaults to 'name'
    • Default Value: array('name')
  • string $delim
    The delimiter to put between returned fields if there are more than one. If false , then we return as an array. Defaults to '-'
    • Default Value: '-'
• Returns: string
  or false on failure
• Defined in i2ce/modules/Forms/modules/FormStorage/lib/I2CE_FormStorage.php on line 653

migrateField()

Migrate field data from an old setMap reference to a new MAP form field type. The old data should have been saved in a migrate_data magic data (see storeMigrateData ).

• Signature: static public function migrateField($form_name,$field_list,$migrate_path,$user)
• Parameters:
  • string $form_name
  • array $field_list
    The list of fields that need to be changed as an array of field => map_form. Optionally the field list can be: array( "field" => array( "prev_field" => "prev_map_form" ) ) The field will get the old value from the list of fields (with mapped forms) for when the field name was changed.
  • string $migrate_path
    Where the migrate data has been saved.
  • I2CE_User $user
    The user to save the new form field.
• Returns: boolean
• Defined in i2ce/modules/Forms/modules/FormStorage/lib/I2CE_FormStorage.php on line 543

migrateForm()

Migrate a given form from one storage method to the current storage method. This should only be used when upgrading a module that moved a form storage from one type to another.

• Signature: static public function migrateForm($form_name,$storage,$user,$migrate_path,$id_field,$skip_fields,$migrate_fields,$callback)
• Parameters:
  • string $form_name
  • string $storage
    The old storage mechanism
  • I2CE_User $user
    The user object to use to save the new forms.
  • string $migrate_path
    The full path in MagicData to save the old to new mappings.
    • Default Value: false
  • string $id_field
    The old field name to use the value of for the new form id.
    • Default Value: false
  • array $skip_fields
    A list of fields to not migrate to the new form.
    • Default Value: array()
  • array $migrate_fields
    A list of fields that have already been migrated and need to use the migrate path to convert the data. Format is array( "field" => "map_form" ) These forms and fields should have already been passed to storeMigrateData so the data can be retrieved from there.
    • Default Value: array()
  • $callback
    • Default Value: null
• Returns: boolean
• Defined in i2ce/modules/Forms/modules/FormStorage/lib/I2CE_FormStorage.php on line 388

populate()

Populate a form object.

• Signature: public function populate($form)
• Parameters:
  • I2CE_Form $form
• Defined in i2ce/modules/Forms/modules/FormStorage/lib/I2CE_FormStorage.php on line 783

populateChild()

Populate all instances of the given child form for this object.

• Signature: public function populateChild($form,$form_name,$order_by,$where,$type)
• Parameters:
  • I2CE_Form $form
  • string $form_name
    The form name to populate
  • mixed $order_by
    A field or array of fields to sort by. Preceded by "-" to sort in reverse order. - array( "-start_date", "name" ). Defaults to null in which case if get the default sort order that is registered for the type (which defaults to none) @param mixed @where an aarray of where information to limit getting the child id's by. If null, we get the default limits for the type (which defaults to none)
    • Default Value: null
  • $where
    • Default Value: null
  • string $type
    Defaults to 'default'
    • Default Value: 'default'
• Defined in i2ce/modules/Forms/modules/FormStorage/lib/I2CE_FormStorage.php on line 948

populateChildren()

Populate the given child form for this object.

• Signature: public function populateChildren($form,$forms,$orderBy)
• Parameters:
  • I2CE_Form $form
  • mixed $forms
    A string or an array such, the form names (the child forms to populate) - array( "demographic", "contact" )
  • array $orderBy
    An associative array of form names with an array of either string, field to sort by or an array of the fields Defaults to empty array - array( "contact" => "contact_type" )
    • Default Value: array()
• Defined in i2ce/modules/Forms/modules/FormStorage/lib/I2CE_FormStorage.php on line 987

populateFirst()

Populate the first child of a form object based on the given field

• Signature: public function populateFirst($form,$forms)
• Parameters:
  • I2CE_Form $form
  • array $forms
    an associative array with keys form names and values field names or ordering array
    • Default Value: array()
• Defined in i2ce/modules/Forms/modules/FormStorage/lib/I2CE_FormStorage.php on line 865

populateHistory()

Populate Last of a form object.

• Signature: public function populateHistory($form)
• Parameters:
  • I2CE_Form $form
• Defined in i2ce/modules/Forms/modules/FormStorage/lib/I2CE_FormStorage.php on line 804

populateLast()

Populate the last child of a form object based on the given field

• Signature: public function populateLast($form,$forms)
• Parameters:
  • I2CE_Form $form
  • array $forms
    an associative array with keys form names and values field names or ordering array
    • Default Value: array()
• Defined in i2ce/modules/Forms/modules/FormStorage/lib/I2CE_FormStorage.php on line 818

save()

Save a form object.

• Signature: public function save($form,$user,$transact)
• Parameters:
  • I2CE_Form $form
  • I2CE_User $user
  • boolean $transact
    Defaults to true.
    • Default Value: true
• Defined in i2ce/modules/Forms/modules/FormStorage/lib/I2CE_FormStorage.php on line 1041

search()

• Signature: static public function search($form,$parent,$where_data,$ordering,$limit)
• Parameters:
  • string $form
    The form name.
  • boolean $parent
    Defaults to false. If it is scalar and non-boolean, it is consider to be the ID of the parent, and then we get all forms with parent the given id.
    • Default Value: false
  • mixed $where_data
    array or class implementing ArrayAccess, Iterator, and Countable (e.g. MagicDataNode) . the where data.
    • Default Value: array()
  • mixed $ordering
    An field or an array of fields to order by. Defaults to the empty array. Prepend a - to order by in descending order.
    • Default Value: array()
  • mixed $limit
    Defaults to false. It true, returns only one result. If an integer it is the numeber of records to limit to. If it is as an array of two integers, it is the offset and then number of results to limit to.
    • Default Value: false
• Returns: mixed
  an array of matching form ids. However, ff $limit_one is true or 1 or array ($offset,1) then then we return either the id or false, if none found or there was an error.
• Defined in i2ce/modules/Forms/modules/FormStorage/lib/I2CE_FormStorage.php on line 612

setChangeType()

Set the change type for the given form. If this method isn't called then the change type will be I2CE_FormStorage::CHANGE_UPDATE

• Signature: public function setChangeType($form,$change_type,$field)
• Parameters:
  • I2CE_Form $form
  • integer $change_type
    the change type to set Defautls to I2CE_FormStorage::CHANGE_UPDATE
    • Default Value: I2CE_FormStorage_Mechanism::CHANGE_UPDATE
  • string $field
    Defaults to 'default'. optional field name to set the change type to.
    • Default Value: 'default'
• Defined in i2ce/modules/Forms/modules/FormStorage/lib/I2CE_FormStorage.php on line 1020

storeMigrateData()

Save the given fields to the given magic data node so it can later be referenced when migrating the form.

• Signature: static public function storeMigrateData($forms,$migrate_path)
• Parameters:
  • array $forms
    An array of forms with an array of fields for each: array( "form_name" => array( "field1", "field2" ) );
  • string $migrate_path
    The path in magic data to save the data
• Defined in i2ce/modules/Forms/modules/FormStorage/lib/I2CE_FormStorage.php on line 255

validate_formfield()

Hooked Function to check if a field is unique or unique restricted to a certain field

• Signature: public function validate_formfield($field_obj)
• Parameters:
  • I2CE_FormField $field_obj
• Returns: boolean
• Defined in i2ce/modules/Forms/modules/FormStorage/lib/I2CE_FormStorage.php on line 89

Inherited Methods

__construct()

This public method is inherited from I2CE_Module->__construct()

action_configure()

This public method is inherited from I2CE_Module->action_configure()

action_disable()

This public method is inherited from I2CE_Module->action_disable()

action_enable()

This public method is inherited from I2CE_Module->action_enable()

action_initialize()

This public method is inherited from I2CE_Module->action_initialize()

conflict_external()

This public method is inherited from I2CE_Module->conflict_external()

getCLIHooks()

This public method is inherited from I2CE_Module->getCLIHooks()

getCLIMethods()

This public method is inherited from I2CE_Module->getCLIMethods()

getConfig()

This public method is inherited from I2CE_Module->getConfig()

post_update()

This public method is inherited from I2CE_Module->post_update()

pre_upgrade()

This public method is inherited from I2CE_Module->pre_upgrade()

requirement_external()

This public method is inherited from I2CE_Module->requirement_external()

upgrade()

This public method is inherited from I2CE_Module->upgrade()

_hasMethod()

This public method is inherited from I2CE_Fuzzy->_hasMethod()

Inherited Fuzzy Methods

launchBackgroundProcess()

This method is inherited from I2CE_Module->launchBackgroundProcess()

launchBackgroundPHPScript()

This method is inherited from I2CE_Module->launchBackgroundPHPScript()

launchBackgroundPage()

This method is inherited from I2CE_Module->launchBackgroundPage()

userMessage()

This method is inherited from I2CE_Fuzzy->userMessage()