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can't manipulate formit validation error message in snippet/chunk

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    airone12 Reply #1, 10 years, 7 months ago
    hi there,
    i have a form page with formit, and it works fine and the field validation and validation error are correctly handled and displayed.

    this page content is really complex, so i wanted to iprove it using chunks and snippets, but i'm having an issue i can't solve by myself.

    the idea is something like this:

    [[!FormIt?
&customValidators=`bla bla bla` other bla]]

[[!mysnippet? &param=`[[!+fi.error.myfield]]`]]


    inside mysnippet i want to read the placeholder [[!+fi.error.myfield]] and, if it's a an empty string, do something, if it's not do something else.
    apparently it's never an empty string, because if i debug i find that, if the placeholder contains an error message and therefore the string is empty, it works fine, if the placeholder is empty mysnippet sees this string in the variable:[[!+fi.error.myfield]]

    given that formit is called before mysnippet i would have expected it to work fine.
    i tried with 2 simple snippets and it works great, so i can't understand what i'm doing wrong.
    thanks for your help

    p.s. modx 2.2.6 and formit 2.2.0
    • Frogabog Reply #2, 10 years, 7 months ago
      Could an output filter do the job of your snippet?
      http://rtfm.modx.com/revolution/2.x/making-sites-with-modx/customizing-content/input-and-output-filters-%28output-modifiers%29

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        airone12 Reply #3, 10 years, 7 months ago
        i tried, but i have the same behavior.

        the idea is that, if i have an error message for the validated field, i have a whole portion of html that i want to omit if the field is fine.

        so i tried with [[+param:notempty=`<tag><anothertag><7anothertag></tag>`]] but it always outputs the html, because he thinks the string i passed is "[[!+fi.error.myfield]]" and not the content of [[!+fi.error.myfield]].

        any other idea?