Date fields not saved by comment CCK update

Bump!

I have the same problem. I wonder what other content types it deletes?

Nash

this might be related to http://drupal.org/node/527258 please test.

The patch had no effect on the problem. The following was the error generated when a date was either modified or left unmodified. Please also note that the date field was submitted with a null value, which is why this error occurred:

* warning: array_key_exists() [function.array-key-exists]: The second argument should be either an array or an object in /var/www-track-dev.tools/public_html/sites/all/modules/date/date/date_elements.inc on line 550.
* warning: date_format() expects parameter 1 to be DateTime, null given in /var/www-track-dev.tools/public_html/sites/all/modules/date/date/date.theme on line 224.
* warning: date_format() expects parameter 1 to be DateTime, null given in /var/www-track-dev.tools/public_html/sites/all/modules/date/date/date.theme on line 225.
* warning: date_format() expects parameter 1 to be DateTime, null given in /var/www-track-dev.tools/public_html/sites/all/modules/date/date_api.module on line 733.

Your thoughts?

Nash

After much playing around I figured this out. Basically when Comment_CCK data gets passed to all the various widget validation routines etc, each fields data exists in $form_state['comments_cck'][FIELDNAME]. The date_combo_validation route expects it to be in $form_state[FIELDNAME] and due to it not being there, the initial value of a flag never gets changed so it ends up replacing the $element['#value'] values with empty values.... if you didn't understand that don't worry, it made my head hurt too.

I hard coded a hack for this, unfortunately I'm new to Drupal and don't know enough about the data structures to fix it properly.

Find your copy of date/date/date_elements.inc and find function date_combo_validate (line 384 for me) and at the top of the function change

$form_values = $form_state['values'];

to

$form_values = $form_state['values'];
if ($element['#parents'][0] == "comment_cck")
$form_values = $form_state['values']['comment_cck'];

Repeat the changes in date_widget_validate (line 550 for me).

I'm thinking that you could probably check all values of $element['#parents'] starting at 0 (ending just before you get to the FIELDNAME entry) and use those to navigate the $form_state array, but I'm not too sure.

LOL! Russell you are a genius! (He's only been playing around with drupal for about less than a day or so and came up with this hack!) ("...it made my head hurt too." - Yea right!)

subscribe... i didn't get that and now my head hurts, too