I am developing a simple CRM system.
User opens Customer index.ctp to see customer list
User selects Customer X and goes to view.ctp for that customer (e.g. is directed to Customers/View/5... i currently have a View button inside the table beside each row)
Customer X can have multiple addresses below in second table
User can click 'Add New' address which goes to add.ctp for Addresses
Customer ID is passed from Customers/view/X as the foreign key on Addresses/add
I have the first four steps working.
For number 5, I imagine there are a number of ways. Possibly by passing a variable across?
I want to add a new address, from the customer view, without selecting the customer a second time. On the Addresses/add.ctp I don't need the customer name or ID shown, just to end up as the foreign key somehow.
Adding the Customer id as a parameter for the CustomerAddresses/Add function.
In your Customer View you'll add the link $this->Html->link(__('New Address'), array('controller' => 'CustomerAddresses', 'action' => add, $this->data['Customer']['id'] )); given that you loaded $this->data with your Customer object on View.
In CustomerAddressesController:
public function add( $customer_id = null ) {
if( !$this->CustomerAddress->Customer->exists($customer_id)
&& empty($this->request->data['CustomerAddress']['customer_id']) ) {
// Redirect because customer_id does not exist, to avoid SOME security problems
$this->redirect($this->referer());
}
if( $this->request->is('post') ) {
// Whatever you need for your add function. Customer id will already be in $this->request->data
}
$this->set('customer_id', $customer_id);
}
And CustomerAddresses/add.ctp in your form add <input type="hidden" value="<?=$customer_id?>" />
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I'm creating a webform to build up a subscription form, on Drupal 7.65
Goal
What I need to do is: to select a role from a list, and automatically to display the associated name of that role, in a text field.
As I said, the name should be displayed into a not modifiable text field just below it.
Suppose valid, the following list (key => value)
Field: Department
business_manager|Business Manager
hr_consultant|Human Resources
training_developer|Training Developer
and from the time going on, the associated names, are respectively
Options can appear into text field hr_business_partner
Steve Abc
Gertrude Def
Sven Hgj Klm
Thus when the trainee selects "Human Resources", the name of "Gertrude Def" should appear into the text field below the select one.
I've attached a mokup to better understand what I do need.
IMPORTANT
I can't put the names into the list as value, because the association can change but old records should keep the previously registered associations
You can use hook_form_alter() and add a new select field with the paired key value list you need to the webform. And then use javascript to update which field value gets shown in the HR Business Partner field on change, which by the way would also need to be added via your hook_form_alter. You could use a taxonomy to maintain a list of Departments/Business partners which would populate your department and business partners.
Write some javascript to dynamically update your original fields not added through the form_alter, on change. I would suggest making two textfields in your webform components which will hold the value from your form alter added fields. So that these values selected by the user gets saved in your form.
function MODULENAME_form_alter(&$form, &$form_state, $form_id) {
if($form_id == "webform_client_form_####"){
$form['#attached']['js'] = array(drupal_get_path('module','MODULENAME') . '/js/webform.js');
$form['hr_dept'] = array(
"#type" => "select",
"#options" => array("business_manager"=>"Business Manager", "hr_consultant"=>"Human Resources"),
);
$partners = taxonomy_get_tree(#); //the VID of the taxonomy
$list = array("0"=>"None"); //first option
foreach($partners as $tid => $partner){
$list[$partner->tid] = $partner->name;
}
$form['hr_partner'] = array(
'#type' => 'select',
'#options' => $list,
);
}
}
In your javascript file, /js/webform.js you can include all your logic to check for which value is selected on the Department field and then display the correct value in the Partners fields. At the same time, updating the original fields you've added as textfields in the webform components UI.
I'm in the process of converting a 10 year old PHP application. After my boss hired a php consultant, he has set up a CakePHP application environment and we are learning as we go. (fun, I know). Also, I come from a javascript/sharepoint background and have not had a lot of php experience.
As a test, I created a basic address table with these fields: firstname, lastname, state, phonenumber. I've been using justice league members as names and other test data to populate my table. Baked it just fine, default bootstrap pages are working.
I decided I wanted to add a dropdown field called current status, and for now just to keep it simple I wanted the choices: alive, dead.I created the column in my address table.
I created a second table called statuses and pointed the status column in my first table to the status table, using the status id as the foriegn key.
Baked my new table and rebaked my old one.
The status drop down does not give my choices of dead or alive, If I click in the field I get an up or down arrow, and based on which one you click, it either increments or decrements by 1. So the first time I click it inserts a 0. If I go up or down, it adds or takes away one.
I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, I'm guessing there is some additional code I need to add to the MVC?
ok, if this works, then a lot is working :-). Now to the following: set in the Status Model a query like this:
public function getStatus()
{
$opt = $this->Status->find('list', array(...));
return $opt;
}
Then get the list over to the Adress Controller like this:
$this->loadModel('Status');
$opt => $this->Status->getStatus();
$this->set('opt', $opt);
Now you are able to access the $opt in the view file.
Just delete this line in the view:
$opts = array('0' => __('dead'), '1' => __('alive'));
And it should work.
Keep it simple. Ad to your table this row (only to understand how it works): 'status' as typ "tinyint(1)". Then set this in your view file:
$opts = array('0' => __('dead'), '1' => __('alive'));
When you create the inputfield, do it like that:
echo $this->Form->input('Address.status', array('options' => $opts, 'label'
=> __('Status')));
This should work.
I've run into a bit of a problem saving data in cake php.
here are the models/relationships.
District hasMany Departments
Department hasMany Groups
I am in a view for creating new district, in which I've allowed the user to create multiple new departments. while creating each department, the user may create multiple groups for that dept. Now the trouble is I'm unsure of how to save the group data.
for each department that is created on the fly, im using the multiple index method for the inputs (i.e. "Department.0.name", Department.0.type) so this will be a cinch to save using the saveAll method. However, for each group that is created, i will need a department_id, and since none of the District's departments have yet been saved, they don't have an id. how can i save this new district's data, saving the new departments, and their associated new created groups? is there a way that i can address the name attribute of the group inputs that will create the proper association, something like "Department.0.Group.0.name", for instance?
Thanks in advance!!! if anything is unclear, please don't hesitate to say so, I'll be glad to rephrase.
What does your POST data array look like?
<?php
debug($this->data);
?>
If it is not in the correct format, the associated models won't get saved.. Cake knows to grab the "lastInsertId()" of the models which haven't been saved yet, so you don't have to worry about those... What i'm not sure about, and the docs don't really go into, is how deep the save goes. The example provided is as follows:
$this->data =
Array
(
[Article] => Array
(
[title] => My first article
)
[Comment] => Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[comment] => Comment 1
[user_id] => 1
)
[1] => Array
(
[comment] => Comment 2
[user_id] => 2
)
)
)
$this->Article->saveAll($this->data);
This is the correct structure (cakephp 1.3) for saving associated models of a 'hasMany' relationship, but i'm not sure if it goes any deeper than one child.
One thing that comes to my mind is to build the array according to the format above, but leave the parent model out. Then manually save the parent model data, grab the ::getLastInsertId(); then do a saveAll on departments and groups.
[UPDATE]
I just tested your theory and it will work the way you intend.
<?php
echo $this->Form->input('Department.0.Group.0.name');
?>
Will produce:
<input name="data[Department][0][Group][0][name]" type="text" id="Department0Group0name">
[UPDATE 2]
I did some exploring in lib/Cake/Model/Model.php and found this:
<?php
...
public function saveAssociated($data = null, $options = array()) {
...
... // code omitted.
...
if ($options['deep']) { // This will recurse infinitely through all associations
$saved = $this->{$association}->saveAssociated($values, array_merge($options, array('atomic' => false)));
}
...
...
... // code omitted.
...
?>
I'm looking for the best practice for adding an id to a database table. As an example I have a Member (model) that hasMany Recipe. The Recipe model states that it belongsTo Member:
public $belongsTo = array(
'Member' => array(
'className' => 'Member',
'foreignKey' => 'member_id',
)
);
I hoped that this would be sufficient when saving new recipes to the database, but I see that cake cannot figure out the relationship on its own because I am getting an error ("General error: 1364 Field 'member_id' doesn't have a default value") when using add:
public function add() {
if ($this->request->is('post')) {
$this->Recipe->create();
if ($this->Recipe->save($this->request->data)) {
$this->Session->setFlash(__('The recipe has been saved'));
$this->redirect(array('action' => 'index'));
} else {
$this->Session->setFlash(__('The recipe could not be saved. Please, try again.'));
}
}
}
Now, in this case I can easily get around the problem by adding
$this->request->data['Recipe']['member_id'] = $this->Auth->user('id');
but in general the ids that I will want to add will not be stored with the Auth data. So I would like to know how to access the id when saving something that belongsTo something else.
edit: I think my question was probably not worded well enough. I will restate what I'm looking for:
Say User hasMany A, which hasMany B, which hasMany C. C belongsTo B, A, and User (table for C contains user_id, a_id, and b_id). A user logs in, and picks a certain A, and then a certain B. The user now wants to add a new C. What is the best way to get all the id values for the new C entry? Do I just set a bunch of session variables? Should they all be passed in the URL? Is there some better way?
You need to provide any information that you want to save in the database. This means you either use the Auth information like you already stated or you get the information via a form where you can select from all the members available.
Either way the information has to come from somewhere. It can not create itself out of nothing.
If the user is selecting or picking A, B or C, them, somehow you can store their data and deal with them.
Usually, the common way is using forms. If you are using Javascript, you can set hidden inputs or if you are using AJAX, just using them inside it to call the final Cake functions.
You have to see how the user picks them, and then, store that ID in some variable to play with it. POST, GET, SESSIONS, COOKIES...
How does one go about creating multiple new users, say in a loop, from an array in a different controller?
I have an issue where attempting to create multiple users in a form submit fails, but creating a single new user works as designed. It appears the issue may be when saving the new user and then bringing the new user_id back in the return statement. Although the new id comes back, subsequent users (2nd, 3rd, etc) all get the same id value, and it appears that the subsequent $this->save calls modify the first created user rather than create add'l ones. Any none of the new users appear in the database. (again, the problem only happens when more than one new users will be created.)
My one small clue is that if I var_dump($user) in my importPublicLDAPUser() function (user.php) just after the $user = $this->save(array('User' => array( ... ))); then for the first element I see both 'modified' and 'created', whereas I see only 'modified' for the rest. This leads me to believe there's a step missing, like the user needs to be saved or commit (??) before the next user can be be created.
I tried changing this to $user = $this->User->save(array('group_id' => 3, ... and adding a 'create' before: $this->User->create(); but these produce errors 'Call to a member function save() on a non-object' and 'Call to a member function create() on a non-object'.
My application manages documents. Each document can have many authors, so it has controllers for: docs, doc-types, users, groups, and authors.
When a new document is entered, the form allows selection of multiple users to create 'Author' records. In addition to the local users table, it also searches our LDAP server (both via auto-sugggest) and also allows input into a text field. So, Authors are selected from
the existing table of users
via the LDAP helper
free text entry.
This result is two arrays: $Authors (from local users tables), and $badAuthors (LDAP and text-input) which the app then tries to add to the local users table when the form is submitted.
The form works just fine if:
one or more authors are added from local users table;
a single author is added from LDAP (succeeds in creating a new entry in users table), and zero or more local users
a single author is added from text input (also succeeds), and zero or more local users
However if two or more non-local users are added ($badAuthors has more than one element) then the form fails. "fails" means that either the Author or User save routine failed, and so it skips the Document commit $this->Docu->commit(); and I spit out an error via ajaxResponse. Thus, the app works as designed, but only with one new User entry at a time, even though the form is designed to allow Authors/badAuthors to be >1.
What I don't understand is why when I loop through bad authors why it doesn't correctly add the users if $badAuthors has more than one element.
As the user enters each name (which is checked against the users table and LDAP via ajax helpers, etc) and then selected, an author_name_list array is built. And then:
foreach($this->params['form']['author_name_list'] as $author_name){
$user_id = $this->Docu->User->field('id',array('User.name' => $author_name));
if($user_id){
$Authors['Author'][]=array(
'docu_id'=>$this->Docu->id
,'user_id'=>$user_id
);
}else{
$badAuthors[] = array('name'=>$author_name);
}
}
So $badAuthors is now those found in LDAP or entered manually.
So now I try to create/save all badAuthors...
docu controller (docu_controller.php):
if(count($badAuthors)){
foreach($badAuthors as $key => $author){
$this->Memo->User->create(); // ** <-- this was missing!! **
if($ldap_author = $this->Docu->User->importPublicLDAPUser($author['name'])){
unset($badAuthors[$key]);
$Authors['Author'] []= array(
'docu_id'=>$this->Docu->id
,'user_id'=>$ldap_author['User']['id']
,'precedence' => $author['precedence']
);
} elseif ($new_author = $this->Docu->User->newReadonlyUser($author['name'])) {
unset($badAuthors[$key]);
$Authors['Author'] []= array(
'docu_id'=>$this->Docu->id
,'user_id'=>$new_author['User']['id']
,'precedence' => $author['precedence']
);
}
}
}
if(!count($badAuthors)){
$authors_saved = true;
foreach($Authors['Author'] as $author_arr){
$this->Docu->Author->create();
if(!$this->Docu->Author->save(array('Author' => $author_arr))){
$authors_saved = false;
break;
}
}
}
user model (user.php)
function afterSave($created) {
if (!$created) {
$parent = $this->parentNode();
$parent = $this->node($parent);
$node = $this->node();
$aro = $node[0];
$aro['Aro']['parent_id'] = $parent[0]['Aro']['id'];
$this->Aro->save($aro);
}
}
function importPublicLDAPUser($cn){
App::import('Vendor','adLDAP',array('file'=>'adLDAP.php'));
$oLDAP = new adLDAP(Configure::read('LDAP_options.email'));
$oLDAP->authenticate(NULL, NULL);
$filter = '(&(cn='.$oLDAP->ldap_escape($cn).'))';
$ldap_res = #$oLDAP->search($filter, array('cn', 'uid','profitcenter'),1);
if(isset($ldap_res['count']) && ($ldap_res['count'] > 0)){//found it
$user = $this->save(array('User' => array(
'group_id' => 3,
'name' => $ldap_res[0]['cn'][0],
'username' => $ldap_res[0]['uid'][0],
'grpnum' => pc2grpnum($ldap_res[0]['profitcenter'][0])
)));
if($user){
$user['User']['id'] = $this->id;
}
return ($user ? $user : false);
}else{
return false;
}
}
Any suggestions? Thanks!!
It turns out that in my docu_controller.php I was missing a create() call. It seems that without a create, an object can still be saved/created when the other controller does a commit(). So before adding the create(), prior to the commit, in later loop iterations I was still modifying the original object, not any new ones. By adding a create in the controller, the save in the method function acts on the new user for each loop iteration.
in controller:
if(count($badAuthors)){
foreach($badAuthors as $key => $author){
$this->Memo->User->create();
if($ldap_author = $this->Memo->User->importPublicLDAPUser($author['name'])){
in method:
function importPublicLDAPUser($cn){
....
$user = $this->save(array('User' => array(...