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JFormField::setup

Description

Method to attach a object to the field.

public function setup (
        &$element
        $value
        $group=null
)

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
&$element	object		$element The object representing the <field> tag for the form field object.
$value	mixed		The form field default value for display.
$group	string	null	The field name group control value. This acts as as an array container for the field. For example if the field has name="foo" and the group value is set to "bar" then the full field name would end up being "bar[foo]".

• Returns boolean True on success.
• Defined on line 284 of libraries/joomla/form/formfield.php
• Since

See also

• JFormField::setup source code on BitBucket
• Class JFormField
• Subpackage Form
• Other versions of JFormField::setup

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