PHP PFBC选择值与显示不同（PHP表单构建类）

Question

PFBC is a simple yet totally undocumented framework that is really useful to get started, it is less complex than other frameworks and looks really nice Out of the box.

http://code.google.com/p/php-form-builder-class/

I have the following two arrays in PHP:

$area = [0=>"name", 10=>"name2", 11=>"name3"];
$ppl = [0=>"name", 1=>"name2", 2=>"name3"];

I want to use them as select, where the user will be able to choose between the names. This is the code I use for each:

$form->addElement(new Element\Select(htmlentities("Area type:"), 
    "area", $area, array("required" => 1)
));

$form->addElement(new Element\Select(htmlentities("Person:"), 
    "ppl", $ppl, array("required" => 1)
));

I was expecting to have this:

<select id="area" required="" name="area">
    <option value="1">
       name
    </option>
    <option value="10">
        name2
    </option>
    <option value="11">
        name3
    </option>
</select>

Wich i got for the first array ($area) but for the second array ($ppl) i've got:}

<select id="ppl" required="" name="ppl">
    <option value="name">
       name
    </option>
    <option value="name2">
        name2
    </option>
    <option value="name3">
        name3
    </option>
</select>

-- I need the numeric code as value since i will use what the user chooses to query a database by that id

Any ideas of what might happen?

Answer 1

So i found the problem:

Somwhere along the way while PFBC creates the Select element, it uses the third parameter (in my example, $area or $ppl) to generate an internal property called options, probably to cover itself against single arrays of the type ["name", "name2", "name3"], inside OptionElement.php the following code is causing problems.

public function __construct($label, $name, array $options, array $properties = null) {
    $this->options = $options;
    if(!empty($this->options) && array_values($this->options) === $this->options)
        $this->options = array_combine($this->options, $this->options);
        parent::__construct($label, $name, $properties);
}

The error is here: array_values($this->options) === $this->options in my second array, $ppl, i have a perfectly indexed table starting from zero

$ppl = [
    0 => "name",
    1 => "name2",
    2 => "name3"
]

this triggers the control to think i have a simple array instead of custom keys, as: $array_values($ppl) === $ppl returns boolean(true)

The second array, $area is different, since it has missing keys:

$area = [
    0 => "name",
    10=> "name2",
    11=> "name3"
]

So $array_values($area) === $area returns boolean(false)

My solution, before touching PFBC (might be a bug, there has to be a better way to detect this case):

Change the database so $ppl starts from 1 instead of 0

$ppl = [
    1 => "name",
    2 => "name2",
    3 => "name3"
]

Incidentally then $array_values($ppl) === $ppl returns boolean(false)

And now my Select works as i expected:

<select id="person" required="" name="person">
    <option value="1">
       name
    </option>
    <option value="2">
        name2
    </option>
    <option value="3">
        name3
    </option>
</select>

Hope this helps!