Fixes #735: Added back `ActiveField::hiddenInput()`

framework/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -165,6 +165,7 @@ Yii Framework 2 Change Log
 - Enh: LinkPager can now register relational link tags in the html header for prev, next, first and last page (cebe)
 - Enh: Added `yii\web\UrlRuleInterface` and `yii\web\CompositeUrlRule` (qiangxue)
 - Enh: Added `yii\web\Request::getAuthUser()` and `getAuthPassword()` (qiangxue)
+- Chg #735: Added back `ActiveField::hiddenInput()` (qiangxue)
 - Chg #1186: Changed `Sort` to use comma to separate multiple sort fields and use negative sign to indicate descending sort (qiangxue)
 - Chg #1519: `yii\web\User::loginRequired()` now returns the `Response` object instead of exiting the application (qiangxue)
 - Chg #1564: Removed `yii\web\Session::autoStart` and added `hasSessionId`. Session will be automatically started when accessing session data (qiangxue)

framework/widgets/ActiveField.php

@@ -312,6 +312,27 @@ class ActiveField extends Component
 	}
 
 	/**
+	 * Renders a hidden input.
+	 *
+	 * Note that this method is provided for completeness. In most cases because you do not need
+	 * to validate a hidden input, you should not need to use this method. Instead, you should
+	 * use [[\yii\helpers\Html::activeHiddenInput()]].
+	 *
+	 * This method will generate the "name" and "value" tag attributes automatically for the model attribute
+	 * unless they are explicitly specified in `$options`.
+	 * @param array $options the tag options in terms of name-value pairs. These will be rendered as
+	 * the attributes of the resulting tag. The values will be HTML-encoded using [[Html::encode()]].
+	 * @return static the field object itself
+	 */
+	public function hiddenInput($options = [])
+	{
+		$options = array_merge($this->inputOptions, $options);
+		$this->adjustLabelFor($options);
+		$this->parts['{input}'] = Html::activeHiddenInput($this->model, $this->attribute, $options);
+		return $this;
+	}
+
+	/**
 	 * Renders a password input.
 	 * This method will generate the "name" and "value" tag attributes automatically for the model attribute
 	 * unless they are explicitly specified in `$options`.