placeholder for dropdown only return value,not label

[samani]

hi
i have a simple dropdown element that has some velue/lable such as 1/A 2/B 3/C ....
i want get A or B or.... infact i want get label but it is return only value
i use these syntax :

$formModel->getElementData('registration___city');
'{registration___city}'

but in both syntax i get value of that dropdown element such as 1 or 2 ...
how to get label of dropdown selected?
i use these in php form plugin

 

[cheesegrits]

Correct, you will only have the values available at that point. This is because the form itself only submits values. That's an HTML thing, not a Fabrik thing. Labels for dropdowns (and radios, and checkboxes) are only for display to the user, they don't get submitted with the form. So at that point, the labels are only stored in the settings of the element itself, they aren't in the submitted data. Later in the form processing, Fabrik will add the labels, during post-processing, so they are available for things like emails. But as it's a significant overhead to build all that rendered data, we don't do it during pre-processing (before the data is written to the table), as we don't need it at that point, and just want to get data written out as quickly as possible.

I pretty much always use joins rather than dropdowns if I'm going to need to do any processing of my own, as that makes getting labels for values a lot easier, it's just straight forward table lookups, rather than having to worry about Fabrik's internal data representations, and how we store labels for values.

However, you can get the labels, if you grab the element model. Something like ...

$elementModel = $formModel->getElement('yourtable___yourelement');
$label = $elementModel->getLabelForValue($value);

-- hugh

 

[samani]

i see the dumped $formmodel (with jdump extension) and i can see the label of city and get with this syntax:

$formModel->emailData['registration___city']

it is work and return label of city drop down field
am i correct? is there anyproblem with do this?

I pretty much always use joins rather than dropdowns if I'm going to need to do any processing of my own, as that makes getting labels for values a lot easier

can you say me what syntax i can use to get label when you use join element?

 

[troester]

With a dbjoin '{registration___city}' should do (value is in '{registration___city_raw}'

 

[cheesegrits]

What hook are you running the PHP plugin on? Like 'onBeforeProcess', 'onAfterProcess', etc.

-- hugh

 

[samani]

Start of submission (onbeforeprocess)
Is it different or is there any tip? Maybe in future i want to change that.

 

[cheesegrits]

OK, then you probably have something like a calc element on the form.

Typically, the $formModel->emailData array is not populated until 'onAfterProcess'. But certain elements (calc being one of them) will kick off the $formModel->getEmailData() method, causing all elements to render their formatted values, during the pre-processing phase.

The array name is a little inaccurate, for historical reasons. It's basically the rendered element data, more or less as it would appear in a list view, or details view ... or in an email. It was originally only used by the email plugin, back in Fabrik 1.x, hence the name.

So yeah, if that array is populated, go ahead and use it. Just note that if you ever remove whichever element is triggering the formatting process, that data may disappear and you'll have to trigger it yourself.

-- hugh