In this example, here are our goals :
change the buttons (add, remove) position. Move at bottom of lists.
center headers at top of lists.
set list item visible to 5. Default is 10.
enlarge both list width to 300 pixels. Default width is only 100 pixels.
change background colors element.
Your first template element
<?php
/**
* Custom advMultiSelect HTML_QuickForm element
* using stylesheet rules selectors and a template.
*
* The template allows to add label as headers of dual select box
* and moves the button to another location (below each select box).
*
* @version $Id: examples-custom1.xml,v 1.5 2009-02-11 08:51:16 farell Exp $
* @author Laurent Laville <[email protected]>
* @package HTML_QuickForm_advmultiselect
* @subpackage Examples
* @access public
* @example examples/qfams_custom_1.php
* qfams_custom_1 source code
* @link http://www.laurent-laville.org/img/qfams/screenshot/custom1.png
* screenshot (Image PNG, 677x197 pixels) 4.80 Kb
*/
require_once 'HTML/QuickForm.php';
require_once 'HTML/QuickForm/advmultiselect.php';
$form = new HTML_QuickForm('amsCustom1');
$form->removeAttribute('name'); // XHTML compliance
// same as default element template but without the label (in first td cell)
$withoutLabel = <<<_HTML
<tr valign="top">
<td align="right">
</td>
<td align="left">
<!-- BEGIN error --><span style="color: #ff0000;">{error}</span><br /><!-- END error -->{element}
</td>
</tr>
_HTML;
// more XHTML compliant
// replace default element template with label, because submit button have no label
$renderer =& $form->defaultRenderer();
$renderer->setElementTemplate($withoutLabel, 'send');
$fruit_array = array(
'apple' => 'Apple',
'orange' => 'Orange',
'pear' => 'Pear',
'banana' => 'Banana',
'cherry' => 'Cherry',
'kiwi' => 'Kiwi',
'lemon' => 'Lemon',
'lime' => 'Lime',
'tangerine' => 'Tangerine',
);
// rendering with QF renderer engine and template system
$form->addElement('header', null, 'Advanced Multiple Select: custom layout ');
$ams =& $form->addElement('advmultiselect', 'fruit', null, $fruit_array,
array('size' => 5,
'class' => 'pool', 'style' => 'width:300px;'
)
);
$ams->setLabel(array('Fruit:', 'Available', 'Selected'));
$ams->setButtonAttributes('add', array('value' => 'Add >>',
'class' => 'inputCommand'
));
$ams->setButtonAttributes('remove', array('value' => '<< Remove',
'class' => 'inputCommand'
));
$template = '
<table{class}>
<!-- BEGIN label_2 --><tr><th align="center">{label_2}</th><!-- END label_2 -->
<!-- BEGIN label_3 --><th align="center">{label_3}</th></tr><!-- END label_3 -->
<tr>
<td>{unselected}</td>
<td>{selected}</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center">{add}</td>
<td align="center">{remove}</td>
</tr>
</table>';
$ams->setElementTemplate($template);
$form->addElement('submit', 'send', 'Send');
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3c.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>HTML_QuickForm::advMultiSelect custom example 1</title>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
body {
background-color: #FFF;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, helvetica;
font-size: 10pt;
}
table.pool {
border: 0;
background-color: lightyellow;
}
table.pool th {
font-size: 80%;
font-style: italic;
text-align: center;
}
table.pool select {
background-color: lightblue;
}
.inputCommand {
background-color: #d0d0d0;
border: 1px solid #7B7B88;
width: 7em;
margin-bottom: 2px;
}
-->
</style>
<?php echo $ams->getElementJs(false); ?>
</head>
<body>
<?php
if ($form->validate()) {
$clean = $form->getSubmitValues();
echo '<pre>';
print_r($clean);
echo '</pre>';
}
$form->display();
?>
</body>
</html>