I am making a dynamic dropdown inside a form view, that brings a customized view with form elements using renderPartial. Due to the ajax call I can’t use the same $form reference from the parent form view to render the elements. Instead I use pure html to do that.
How can I make this partialview conform with yii form rendering? I want to use the elements and the form->error mechanism so that everything selected on the particular form (it’s a checkbox array) or if the checkbox array is not checked to be showing up in error Summary.
Just in case I can’t do the above, is there a way to append errorSummary (or trigger it client side) so that I could have the error checking?
As I understand, your input fields will be dependent on a dropdown option…
May be too classical but I solve these kind of (simple) problems via model and via view by javascript (forget the renderparial):
In model:
rules:
switch (dropdownvalue) {
case x: specialrules = array(aaa);
break;
case y: specialrules = array(bbb);
break;
case z: specialrules = array(ccc);
break;
}
return array( common rules ) + specialrules;
In view:
<?php
$oneOfTheScripts = "blabla"; // blabla script evaluates and shows/hides input elements according to the selected dropdown row. Rules in the model should match the shown elements.
Other solutions may include more sophisticated php/scripts but the result will be the same. The only drawback is the missing * (asterisk) on required elements but this will show up upon the first unsuccessful request…