Sometimes you need to have an ability to show limited number of elements in your select objects or sort elements by name or so. I figured out that this feature was added to object_select_tag later so that not everybody knows about that. This feature’s name is ‘peer_method’ – effectively you create your peer method which returns objects which must appear in your object_select_tag. So here is the code for object_select_tag:
echo object_select_tag($domain, ‘getObjectId’, array (
‘related_class’ => ‘Object’,
‘peer_method’ => ‘getSortedObject’,
‘control_name’ => ‘object_id’,
‘include_blank’ => true,
));
and this must be put in your ObjectPeer.class.php:
static public function getSortedObject() {
$c = new Criteria();
$c->addAscendingOrderByColumn(TablePeer::NAME);
$rs = TablePeer::doSelect($c);
return $rs;
}
Interesting how this can be done in generator without re-writing of edit_form.php template. I suspect this can be done directly in generator.yml but never tried it. If someone has experienced would be good to know.
Thanks in advance.