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Hello everyone --

I have a package I'm using to store info about dependents for each user. It's working great, thanks to Jeremy Werst's package demo.

The issue I have right now is that I would like to have a single page in the package, where any user can add a new dependent. I have a small form set up, but I'm not sure where I should link the action to. My gut says to link it to a function in the package controller, but I'm not sure how to do that.

As it stands, my single page is:

<form method="post" action="<?php echo $this->url($pkg->getRelativePath(), 'do_register')?>" class="form-horizontal">
<?php
   print $form->label('firstName', 'First Name');
   print $form->text('firstName', "First Name");
   print $form->label('lastName', 'Last Name');
   print $form->text('lastName', "Last Name");
   print $form->label('legalName', 'Full Legal Name');
   print $form->text('legalName', "Full Legal Name");
   print $form->submit('submit', 'Submit Registration');
?>


and my package controller is, in part:

<?php 
defined('C5_EXECUTE') or die(_("Access Denied."));
class StudentInfoPackage extends Package {
     protected $pkgHandle = 'student_info';
     protected $appVersionRequired = '5.5.2';
     protected $pkgVersion = '0.1.14';
     protected $singlePages = array(
      '/add_student'
    );
   public function do_register() {
      $firstName = $_POST['$firstName'];
      $lastName = $_POST['$lastName'];
      $legalName = $_POST['$legalName'];
      $si = StudentInfo::add(array($firstName, $lastName, $legalName));
      if ($si) {
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but this doesn't work -- I get a 404 Page not found error.

Anybody have any advice or tips on how to do this? I've looked in various packages, but they're either too sparse or waaaay too complex for me to understand.

Thanks!
lucashaley
 
ScottSandbakken replied on at Permalink Reply
ScottSandbakken
Your form action is linking to a page in the package folder. You want to get the page by its path or id and then get its url.

I created a package with a single page like this and I stored the page id in the config table in the database so that I could easily access it.
lucashaley replied on at Permalink Reply
lucashaley
NetJunky -- yes, the controller is in the package. That's the problem I'm having -- it can't seem to find the controller, or it can't find the function in the controller.
ScottSandbakken replied on at Permalink Reply
ScottSandbakken
The controller for a single page inside of a package follows a path similar to the single page. For instance, if the single page is in [package root]/single_pages/students/student_info.php then the controller is located in [package root]/controllers/students/student_info.php

To submit a form to a single page controller, the form action should be the page url plus the name of the function to be called when the form is submitted. For instance, if you wish to call the addStudent function, the form action would be
http://site.com/students/student-info/addStudent....