setValue()

clonefish->setValue() - set the value of a form element

Description

class clonefish {
  mixed setValue( string $name, mixed $value, boolean $magic_quotes_gpc )
}

Sets the value of an element and strips slashes using stripslashes() if needed.

It is a helpful shortcut instead of:

$element = $clonefish->getElementByName('fieldname');
$element->setValue( 1 );

Parameters

$name

The name of the form element

$value

The value to set

$magic_quotes_gpc

Whether or not slashes are already added to the returned value.

Return values

Returns TRUE if the value is set successfully, returns FALSE if the element is not found.

Examples

Example 1: we have a login and a password field in our form.

<?php 

echo $clonefish->setValue( 'login', 0 ) ? 'OK' : 'failed';
echo "\n";
echo $clonefish->setValue( 'password', 0 ) ? 'OK' : 'failed';
echo "\n";
echo $clonefish->setValue( 'description', 0 ) ? 'OK' : 'failed'; 

?>

Output:

OK
OK
failed

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