HTML_QuickForm_element::exportValue()

HTML_QuickForm_element::exportValue() -- Returns a 'safe' element's value (package developer related)

Synopsis

      require_once 'HTML/QuickForm/element.php';

mixed HTML_QuickForm_element::exportValue ( array &$submitValues , bool $assoc = FALSE )

Description

This method is not intended to be called directly. It is called by HTML_QuickForm::exportValue() and HTML_QuickForm::exportValues() methods.

The method first tries to find a value for itself in a passed array, if such a value is not found it takes the display value via getValue(). It then filters out the values that cannot possibly be submitted by this element and returns the result.

Parameter

array &$submitValues: array of submitted values to search

boolean $assoc: whether to return the value as associative array

Throws

throws no exceptions thrown

See

see getValue(), HTML_QuickForm::exportValue(), HTML_QuickForm::exportValues().

Note

This function can not be called statically.