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Select Not Saving Block Attribute.

Permalink 1 user found helpful February 13, 2013 at 2:05 AM

Ok, I am working on make a block that will list pages by CollectionType as well as limit the pages, and some ordering functions. But right now I am stuck on why my $form->select function is not saveing. I've been working on this issue for about 2 days now and I can't figure it out. I've tryed alot of varations. I'll post all of my code. But the first 2 forms save. Cool you know. But my select list is not saveing. Anyone that can help me I will so give you Lots of kudo's. Thanks for at least reading this.
Add/Edit (event_list_form.php)

<?php  
   defined('C5_EXECUTE') or die("Access Denied.");
   $block = $controller;
?>
<style type="text/css" media="screen">
   .ccm-block-field-group h2 { margin-bottom: 5px; }
   .ccm-block-field-group td { vertical-align: middle; }
</style>
<div class="ccm-block-field-group">   <h2>Title</h2>
   <?php  echo $form->text('title', $title, array('style' => 'width: 95%;'));?>
   <h2>Number and Types of Pages</h2>
   <?php 
      echo t('Display ');
      echo $form->text('max', $max);
       echo t(' Pages of type');

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<?php  
   defined('C5_EXECUTE') or die("Access Denied.");
   $block = $controller;
?>
<style type="text/css" media="screen">
   .ccm-block-field-group h2 { margin-bottom: 5px; }
   .ccm-block-field-group td { vertical-align: middle; }
</style>
 
<div class="ccm-block-field-group">   <h2>Title</h2>
   <?php  echo $form->text('title', $title, array('style' => 'width: 95%;'));?>
   <h2>Number and Types of Pages</h2>
   <?php 
      echo t('Display ');
      echo $form->text('max', $max);
       echo t(' Pages of type');
      $ctArray = CollectionType::getList();
      $array = array('a'=>'All');
      foreach($ctArray as $ct)
      {
         $block->addArray($array, $ct->getCollectionTypeID(), $ct->getCollectionTypeName());
      }
      echo $form->select('ctID', $array, $ctID);
   ?>
</div>

Controller.php

<?php  defined('C5_EXECUTE') or die("Access Denied.");
class EventListBlockController extends BlockController 
{
   protected $btName = 'Event List';
   protected $btDescription = 'This is an event block that will display events either upcomming from the past.';
   protected $btTable = 'btEventBlock';
   protected $btInterfaceWidth = "700";
   protected $btInterfaceHeight = "450";
   public $title = "";
   public $max = "";
   public $ctID = "";
   public $orderBy = "";
   public function getPages()
   {
      $pages = $this->getPagesByHandle("event");

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<?php  defined('C5_EXECUTE') or die("Access Denied.");
 
class EventListBlockController extends BlockController 
{
   protected $btName = 'Event List';
   protected $btDescription = 'This is an event block that will display events either upcomming from the past.';
   protected $btTable = 'btEventBlock';
 
   protected $btInterfaceWidth = "700";
   protected $btInterfaceHeight = "450";
 
   public $title = "";
   public $max = "";
   public $ctID = "";
   public $orderBy = "";
 
   public function getPages()
   {
      $pages = $this->getPagesByHandle("event");
      return $pages;
   }
   public function getPagesByHandle($handle)
   {
      $pages = CollectionType::getByHandle($handle);
      return $pages;
 
   }
   public function getPagesByHandleId($handleID)
   {
      $ct->getCollectionTypeID();
   }
   public function getHandle()
   {
      $handle = $this->get("ctID");
      echo 'Handle : ' . $handle;
      return $handle;      
   }
   public function view()
   { 
      $this->set('title', $this->title); 
      $this->set('ctID', $this->ctID);
      $this->set('orderBy', $this->orderBy);
      $this->set('max', $this->max);
   }
   public function addArray(&$array, $id, $var)
   {
      $tempArray = array($id=>$var);
      $array = array_merge ($array, $tempArray);
      return $array;
   }
}
?>

db.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<schema version="0.3">
   <table name="btEventBlock">
      <field name="bID" type="I"><key /><unsigned /></field>
      <field name="title" type="C" size="255"></field>
      <field name="max" type="I"></field>
      <field name="ctID" type="I2"></field>
      <field name="orderBy" type="C" size="32">
         <descr>Was enum, chrono_asc','chrono_desc'</descr>
      </field>
      <field name="displayType" type="C" size="32">
         <descr>Was enum, up_coming','past','all'</descr>
      </field>
   </table>
</schema>

view.php

<?php 
defined('C5_EXECUTE') or die("Access Denied.");
$th = Loader::helper('text');
$url=Loader::helper('navigation');
Loader::model('page_list');
$pl = new PageList();
$block = $controller;
$test = $block->getPages();
echo $title;
echo $ctID;
echo $orderBy;
echo $max;
?>
<div>
   <?php

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<?php 
defined('C5_EXECUTE') or die("Access Denied.");
$th = Loader::helper('text');
$url=Loader::helper('navigation');
Loader::model('page_list');
$pl = new PageList();
$block = $controller;
$test = $block->getPages();
 
echo $title;
echo $ctID;
echo $orderBy;
echo $max;
?>
 
<div>
   <?php
      $pages = $pl->get(100,0);
 
      foreach($pages as $page)
      {
         echo 'Page Type = ';
         echo $page->getCollectionTypeName();
         echo ' | Title = ' . $page->getCollectionName();
         echo '<br>';
      }
   ?>
</div>

delconis replied on Feb 17, 2013 at 4:50 pm Permalink Reply

I would like to add I still haven't figured this out

mnakalay replied on Feb 17, 2013 at 6:08 pm Permalink Reply

I understand you say your problem is that the value for your select is not saving but where is your save function?

delconis replied on Feb 20, 2013 at 1:39 am Permalink Reply

From what I understand from the Concrete tutorials is that the data in the fields should save automatically if they have matching ID's with the DB.xml. 2 of the values do save, but the rest are not. So I am kinda confused on why they don't save.

They state that you don't need to add a custom save function in most cases. Is this an exception? If so then what defines what will need a custom save function.

designportfolio replied on Feb 20, 2013 at 12:10 pm Permalink Reply

I'm also trying to figure this out. In the edit.php I have:

<?php echo $form->select('display_type', array('0' => 'Full RNS', '1' => 'Box RNS'), '1'); ?>

Then in my controller I want to catch the result and save

public function save($data) {       
      $args['display_type'] = $data['display_type'];
           parent::save($args);
}

But no value, guess I'm missing something here in the save function.

mnakalay replied on Feb 20, 2013 at 2:27 pm Permalink Reply

@delconis
your code seems to have a problem. In the controller you have

public $ctID = "";

Then you have

public function view()
   { 
      $this->set('title', $this->title); 
      $this->set('ctID', $this->ctID);
      $this->set('orderBy', $this->orderBy);
      $this->set('max', $this->max);
}

the $ctID you have first and the $this->ctID you have in the view function are the same variable so as far as I can see, since you're not setting it anywhere, it's value is always "" so empty.
In your view.php when you echo it, it won't show anything.

@terryoleary
the little bit of code you are showing seems correct, the problem must be somewhere else.
You might want to get rid of the quotation marks around the numbers in your select though. They represent array indexes, they should just be integers.

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