From c77f4e8421014081da3f7373a5f83445b8700b56 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ingo Schommer <ingo@silverstripe.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:40:47 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] MINOR Allowing usage of FormField->Type() on base
 implementation

---
 forms/FormField.php | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/forms/FormField.php b/forms/FormField.php
index 78999441d..611e51195 100644
--- a/forms/FormField.php
+++ b/forms/FormField.php
@@ -559,7 +559,11 @@ class FormField extends RequestHandler {
 	 * @return string
 	 */
 	function Type() {
-		return strtolower(ereg_replace('Field$', '', $this->class));
+		if(get_class($this) == 'FormField') {
+			return 'hidden';
+		} else {
+			return strtolower(ereg_replace('Field$', '', $this->class));	
+		}
 	}
 
 	/**