[FLOW3-general] need help with f:form.select

[Wasko Jugovic]

Thanks for your help. It worked!
By the way:  f:form:select supports the onclick event. What about onchange? 
I want to show a book's details without pressing the submit button






""Christian Müller (FLOW3 Team)"" <christian.mueller at typo3.org> schrieb im 
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> Hi Wasko,
>
> I think you have a minor misconception in your approach. Either you 
> directly accept the book in your listAction as it is now (and is the 
> recommended way) or you accept the idnr, which is I guess a string or 
> integer. I would go for accepting the book as your listAction already 
> shows. What I don't see are the proper annotations for your action, those 
> are needed. If you have them, your form should work this way:
>
>  <f:if condition="{books}">
>       <f:form action="detail">
>          <label for="book">Book</label><br />
>          <f:form.select name="book" options="{books}"
>  optionLabelField="name" id="book" sortByOptionLabel="true" /><br />
>          <f:form.submit value="Show" />
>       </f:form>
> </f:if>
>
> Because you actually just want to select one of your books and don't edit 
> any book you can directly use the name argument of the select viewhelper, 
> because your form doesn't deal with editing an object. This way the 
> selected book (UUID) will be given to the detailAction.
>
> Cheers,
> Christian
>
> On 02/05/12 16:29, Wasko Jugovic wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> As FLOW3 newbie I fail at this exercise:
>> Index.html shows a form containing a drop-down list to select a book. 
>> That
>> works for me.  After form submission List.html should show a book's 
>> details
>> (author, year....)
>> What's the right syntax in "arguments" for passing the selected item's
>> identifier from f:form:select  to the listAction?
>>
>> My attempts end up with:
>> "The requested URL's length exceeds the capacity limit for this server" ,
>> when using {books: books}, because all identifiers and not only the 
>> selected
>> one is passed ,
>> "Required argument 'book' is not set" by using  {books: books.idnr}
>>
>> My indexAction
>>
>>   public function indexAction() {
>>    $this->view->assign('books', $this->bookRepository->findAll());
>> ....
>> ------------------
>>
>> My Index.html
>>
>> <f:if condition="{books}">
>>      <f:form action="detail"  arguments="{????}" name="books">
>>         <label for="idnr">Book</label><br />
>>         <f:form.select property="idnr" options="{books}"
>> optionLabelField="name" id="idnr" sortByOptionLabel="true" /><br />
>>         <f:form.submit value="Show" />
>>      </f:form>
>> </f:if>
>>
>> --------------
>>
>> My listAction
>>
>> public function listAction(Book $book) {
>>        $this->view->assign('bookdetail',
>> $this->bookRepository->findByIdentifyer($book));
>>   }
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
>
>
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