valuelists.ini issue

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wisni1rr — Thu Mar 01, 2012 11:14 am

I’m not sure what the issue is exactly. However, If I add the following to a valuelist.ini it will kill all my select widgets on the given table:

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NONE = NONE

Has anyone else experienced this issue?
Also occurs with these:

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NO = NONE NONE = NO NO = NO

However this works:

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NAH = NAH

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shannah — Thu Mar 01, 2012 11:19 am

INI files have a few reserved words. From http://php.net/manual/en/function.parse-ini-file.php

Note: There are reserved words which must not be used as keys for ini files. These include: null, yes, no, true, false, on, off, none. Values null, no and false results in “”, yes and true results in “1”. Characters ?{}

&~![()^” must not be used anywhere in the key and have a special meaning in the value.

A workaround is to define the valuelist in the database (i.e. use the __sql__ directive), or define it in a delegate class.
There are examples of both methods at
http://xataface.com/wiki/valuelists.ini_file

-Steve

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wisni1rr — Thu Mar 01, 2012 11:20 am

Thank you, Steve.