ns_entrywidgetbytype

Overview

Return HTML form elements for entering data into specified column and type

Syntax

ns_entrywidgetbytype column type {onsearchform 0}

Description

ns_entrywidgetbytype returns HTML form elements for entering data into the specified column with the specified type. The type argument can be:

Numeric types:
bigint	binary	decimal
double	float	float4
float8	int2	int4
integer	numeric	real
smallint	tinyint

Bit and Boolean types:
bit	boolean

Date/Time types:
date	time	timestamp

Alphanumeric/Varying types:
longvarbinary	longvarchar	char
varbinary	varchar

The returned HTML form elements do not use any customized settings (since no table is specified).

The onsearchform argument has a default value of 0 (zero). When it is non-zero, the widget allows "unknown" to be entered for the bit type, and widgets which are on an entry form would be shown as TextAreas that are turned into INPUTs.