How do auto-hints work?

robsch · June 2, 2015, 4:06pm

I just saw this new feature https://github.com/yiisoft/yii2/issues/1468. I tried it but could not activate those auto-hints.

Does is work with


ActiveForm::begin(['fieldConfig' => ['autoHint' => true]);

?

It doesn’t seem so…

MetaCrawler · June 2, 2015, 4:24pm

Hi!

What exactly do you mean?

Your link leads to a 404.

Regards

webin2015 · June 3, 2015, 5:10am

im also facing the same issue

im getting below error.

i have update the composer too.


Unknown Property – yii\base\UnknownPropertyException

Setting unknown property: kartik\form\ActiveField::autoHint

robsch · June 3, 2015, 6:52am

Sorry, the dot was part of the link. Correct link: https://github.com/yiisoft/yii2/issues/1468 .

Yeah, I also get that exception. Could it be that something has been forgotten?

Pasman · June 3, 2015, 8:01am

is this feature released ?

robsch · June 3, 2015, 8:29am

Hopefull does not mean: Specifiying yes, using no…

samdark · June 9, 2015, 8:30am

Do you have attributeHints() method in your model?

robsch · June 9, 2015, 9:22am

Now it’s working for me! I guess my problem was that I passed an unneeded configuration to ActiveForm. Obviously, I did not try without it.

Conclusion:

Just implement (overwrite) attributeHints in model. That’s it. No activation required.




    public function attributeHints() {

        return ['name' => "My hint for the model attribute 'name'."];

    }

And if hints are declared and one wants to hide it though just call


<?= $form->field($model, 'name')->textInput()->hint(false) ?>

or to supply a different string


<?= $form->field($model, 'name')->textInput()->hint('different string') ?>

Please correct me if anything is not correct here.