Input forms on custom attributes
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I am looking for feedback on the 'correctness' of my approach here. First, I will describe what the goal is:
Using the eCommerce Package, I want to add an attribute type of "Review", which when displayed on the front end is an input form for users to type up their review of a product. There will be an additional new attribute type of "Reviews" which will be a collection of "Review" entries, and will display itself as non-editable reviews by other users.
I am going to worry about the collection of reviews type later, and for now just make a bogus single review form to test my understanding.
I have created the Review attribute, installed it, added it to the product page view, and now I run into a question about the correctness of how to proceed:
I modified getDisplayValue() just to see what would happen:
Which, from a purely visual standpoint starts me on the right road of creating the review form for users.
But I start to think about where that form posts to, and where i implement the post-handling, and I'm not sure about this approach.
Is there a more concrete-5 way to do this? is there supposed to be certain controller functions i should set up to handle this data type?
Using the eCommerce Package, I want to add an attribute type of "Review", which when displayed on the front end is an input form for users to type up their review of a product. There will be an additional new attribute type of "Reviews" which will be a collection of "Review" entries, and will display itself as non-editable reviews by other users.
I am going to worry about the collection of reviews type later, and for now just make a bogus single review form to test my understanding.
I have created the Review attribute, installed it, added it to the product page view, and now I run into a question about the correctness of how to proceed:
I modified getDisplayValue() just to see what would happen:
public function getDisplayValue() { $v = Loader::helper('text')->entities($this->getValue()); $ret = nl2br($v); $return = "<form><textarea name='review'>$ret</textarea><input type='submit' value='Submit Review'/> </form>"; return $return; }
Which, from a purely visual standpoint starts me on the right road of creating the review form for users.
But I start to think about where that form posts to, and where i implement the post-handling, and I'm not sure about this approach.
Is there a more concrete-5 way to do this? is there supposed to be certain controller functions i should set up to handle this data type?
