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snsmurf

Apologies if this has been discussed before, i've had a search on the forums and the github but can't see anything obvious. Looking at the docs for setting up the properties in a model, you can set the data_type in both the main array and as an element of the 'forms' sub array.
What's the difference between these? I've had a look through the code but couldn't find anything.
Are they both in use? Is one redundant? Edit: Just incase I didn't make myself clear, see the example below from the docs. data_type is defined twice!

        'name' => array(
            'data_type' => 'varchar',
            'label' => 'Article Name',
            'validation' => array('required', 'min_length' => array(3), 'max_length' => array(20)),
            'form' => array('data_type' => 'text'),
            'default' => 'New article',
        ),

Jelmer Schreuder

'data_type' refers to the mysql column data type. In 'form' the key should be 'type' instead of 'data_type' and refers to the type of HTML element/input used. That's a mistake that has been fixed in the develop version of the docs and will be corrected when 1.2 comes out.

snsmurf

Ahhh right ok. Thank you very much!

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