Thanks Dave, I will do the conversion on validate.

Van: development-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:development-bounces@drupal.org] Namens Dave Reid
Verzonden: zaterdag 19 december 2009 22:39
Aan: development@drupal.org
CC: j.sintjago@xs4all.nl
Onderwerp: Re: [development] textfield from autocomplete to show value not key

This is how the auto-completion works. If you want to keep the $name in the textfield for the user, you should convert it to $id during form validation, much like if a user enters an aliased path, we would want to convert it using drupal_get_normal_path().

On display, you can re-covert it back to $name, much like we would use drupal_get_path_alias().

Dave Reid
dave@davereid.net

On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Joop Sint Jago <j.sintjago@xs4all.nl> wrote:

I have an autocomplete field picking-up text suggestion from an array($id => $name).

When I start typing in the text-field the list of suggestions is properly showing the values (names) of the array.

When I select a name however the key ($id) is shown in the textfield.

The only way to show the name in the textfield is to populate the array as ($name => $name).

But then $name is returned on submission while I need the key.

Am I missing something? Thanx