Technical Overview: Form Storage -- Eval: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 09:09, 14 January 2014

This form storage mechanism is present in version >= 4.0.3.

The options specifying a php-eval storage for $form are stored at:

/modules/forms/forms/$form/storage_options/eval

It has the following structure:

records: The function to call to get the list of available records/form ids. As of version 4.2, the variable $mod_time, if non-negative, should be checked to retrieve only the records changed since a given time.
parent: optional parent node
- populate: optional scalar node. if set, it is the php code used to get the parent id of the current id. the current id can be accessed as $id
fields: optional parent node containing a sub node for each field indexed by the $fieldName
- $fieldName: optional parent node
  - populate: optional scalar node. if set, it is the php code used to get the db-value of the field for the current id. the current id can be accessed as $id

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 It has the following structure:
-*records:  The function to call to get the list of available records/form ids
+*records:  The function to call to get the list of available records/form ids.  As of version 4.2, the variable $mod_time, if non-negative, should be checked to retrieve only the records changed since a given time.
 *parent: optional parent node
 **populate: optional scalar node.  if set, it is the php code used to get the parent id of the current id.  the current id can be accessed as $id