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UPDATE:
I think now I am literally just trying to get a database value into my component php files, but again, there seems to be very little documentation that can give an example of a function that will return this info like there is in Wordpress.
So I have a table called membersarea_countries that will have records of differnt countries I want to store values for.
I've read about JTable and other things, but how can I simply just bring back the records from this table?
$row = JTable::getInstance('membersarea_countries', 'Table', array());
But this returns a boolean of 0.
I'd really appreciate some help if anyone can.
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I've been following what several online guides explain, which are all pretty much the same thing, but I never seem to return the values that I'm expecting.
In Components > Members Area (my component), I have a table set up to allow me to enter a record for each country, and then store a uniqueRef, signature, and URL within that record. (for GeoIP purposes).
I've created the first record, however when I try to use the following code, which the tutorials suggest, I don't see any of my fields within this:
$app = JFactory::getApplication();
$params = $app->getParams();
$uniqueRef = $params->get('uniquereference');
$signature = $params->get('signature');
This is all I see in NetBeans:
There's nothing about $app, and no sign of the fields I've got in the Joomla backend.
I don't understand what's happening, or exactly what I should be doing here. Wordpress uses a simple get_option function. Can anyone try and help me?
Below is the link to the detailed document about JTable -
https://docs.joomla.org/Using_the_JTable_class
Firstly you need to create JTable instance using below code and also change table file name to membersareacountries.php
JTable::addIncludePath(JPATH_ADMINISTRATOR . '/components/com_membersarea/tables');
$row = JTable::getInstance('Membersareacountries', 'Table', array());
JTable Class in this file /administrator/components/com_membersarea/tables/membersareacountries.php-
<?php
defined('_JEXEC') or die();
class TableMembersareacountries extends JTable
{
public function __construct($db)
{
parent::__construct( '#__membersarea_countrie', 'id', $db );
}
}
Then you can use load method to get any records. This accepts primary key value of that table -
$id = 1;//change id as per your record
$row->load($id);
//read data
echo $row->id;
echo $row->title;
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I want to know is there any way to access table data without passing it from controller to view in laravel 5 ?
I have an Options table in my database that stores all my project options. it has three column:
id
name
value
Now I want to access each option value in my master.blade.php file.
what is the best way to do it.
If you understand what MVC is all about then you should know that passing a variable from controller to your view is the best practice. View is simply used for presentation and should only be used for presentation purpose for the sake of separation of concern.
With that been said the best approach is:
Create a model for options then pass it through your controller to the view.
For example:
use App\Option;
PageController extends Controller{
public function __construct(Option $option){
$this->option = $option;
}
public function about(){
$options = $this->option->list('id','value');
return view('about', $options);
}
}
To make variable global in all view see my answer here:
Laravel 5 - global Blade view variable available in all templates
Well there can be multiple ways available, but passing your Table data directly into views is not a recommended way, It would be much better if you follow the proper way, means from Controller to Model. Well its upto you. here is my suggested possible ways.
Method 1 (about which you are asking)
in your master.blade.php file, you can also do this,
<?php
$v = new \App\Message(); // your model object
echo $v ->testmeee(); // its method
?>
Method 2
If you are trying to use your Table data globally(means you want options data should be available on all pages/views), then this one is highly suggested way.
Goto your App/Http/Providers/AppServiceProvider.php file
view()->composer('*', function ($view)
{
$user = new \App\User();
$view->with('friend_new_req_count', count($user->getLoggedinUserNewFriends()));
});
now this variablefriend_new_req_count with data would be available in all views (only in views) means you can access in view {{$friend_new_req_count}}
Where and how I am overriding the save method in Joomla 3.0 custom component ?
Current situation:
Custom administrator component.
I have a list view that displays all people stored in table.
Clicking on one entry I get to the detailed view where a form is loaded and it's fields can be edited.
On save, the values are stored in the database. This all works fine.However, ....
When hitting save I wish to modify a field before storing it into the database. How do I override the save function and where? I have been searching this forum and googled quiet a bit to find ways to implement this. Anyone who give me a simple example or point me into the right direction ?
Thanks.
Just adding this for anyone who wants to know the answer to the question itself - this works if you explicitly wish to override the save function. However, look at the actual solution of how to manipulate values!
You override it in the controller, like this:
/**
* save a record (and redirect to main page)
* #return void
*/
function save()
{
$model = $this->getModel('hello');
if ($model->store()) {
$msg = JText::_( 'Greeting Saved!' );
} else {
$msg = JText::_( 'Error Saving Greeting' );
}
// Check the table in so it can be edited.... we are done with it anyway
$link = 'index.php?option=com_hello';
$this->setRedirect($link, $msg);
}
More details here: Joomla Docs - Adding Backend Actions
The prepareTable in the model (as mentioned above) is intended for that (prepare and sanitise the table prior to saving). In case you want to us the ID, though, you should consider using the postSaveHook in the controller:
protected function postSaveHook($model, $validData) {
$item = $model->getItem();
$itemid = $item->get('id');
}
The postSaveHook is called after save is done, thus allowing for newly inserted ID's to be used.
You can use the prepareTable function in the model file (administrator/components/yourComponent/models/yourComponent.php)
protected function prepareTable($table)
{
$table->fieldname = newvalue;
}
I was wondering if someone could help me out.
Im building a forum into my codeigniter application and im having a little trouble figuring out how i build the segments.
As per the CI userguide the uri is built as follows
www.application.com/CLASS/METHOD/ARGUMENTS
This is fine except i need to structure that part a bit different.
In my forum i have categories and posts, so to view a category the following url is used
www.application.com/forums
This is fine as its the class name, but i want to have the next segment dynamic, for instance if i have a category called 'mycategory' and a post by the name of 'this-is-my-first-post', then the structure SHOULD be
www.application.com/forums/mycategory/this-is-my-first-post
I cant seem to achieve that because as per the documentation the 'mycategory' needs to be a method, even if i was to do something like /forums/category/mycategory/this-is-my-first-post it still gets confusing.
If anyone has ever done something like this before, could they shed a little light on it for me please, im quite stuck on this.
Cheers,
Nothing is confusing in the document but you are a little bit confused. Let me give you some suggestions.
You create a view where you create hyperlinks to be clicked and in the hyperlink you provide this instruction
First Post
In the controller you can easily get this
$category = $this->uri->segment(3);
$post = $this->uri->segment(4);
And now you can proceed.
If you think your requirements are something else you can use a hack i have created a method for this which dynamically assign segments.
Go to system/core/uri.php and add this method
function assing_segment($n,$num)
{
$this->segments[$n] = $num;
return $this->segments[$n];
}
How to use
$this->uri->assign_segment(3,'mycategory');
$this->uri->assign_segment(4,'this-is-my-first-post');
And if you have error 'The uri you submitted has disallowed characters' then go to application/config/config.php and add - to this
$config['permitted_uri_chars'] = 'a-z 0-9~%.:_\-';
You could make a route that forwards to a lookup function.
For example in your routes.php add a line something like;
$route['product/(:any)/(:any)'] = "forums/cat_lookup/$1/$2";
This function would then do a database lookup to find the category.
...
public function cat_lookup($cat, $post) {
$catid = $this->forum_model->get_by_name($cat);
if ($catid == FALSE) {
redirect('/home');
}
$post_id = $this->post_model->get_by_name($post);
/* whatever else you want */
// then call the function you want or load the view
$this->load->view('show_post');
}
...
This method will keep the url looking as you want and handle any problems if the category does not exist.Don't forget you can store the category/posts in your database using underscores and use the uri_title() function to make them pretty,
Set in within config/routes.php
$route['song-album/(:any)/:num'] = 'Home/song_album/$id';
fetch in function with help of uri segment.
$this->uri->segment(1);
isn't this the right method to get Name of logged in customer?
<?php echo Mage::helper('customer')->getCustomer()->getName(); ?>
I have a website with live chat functionality. Yesterday I have been asked to pass email address and the name of the logged into the user into the Javascript Tracking variable code placed in the head section of the website. So that the operators could see who is on the website and whom are they talking to without any need to ask about their information.
So I passed the information from Magento into the Javascript code but now I see this very strange thing happening. For example,
If I am logged in with credentials Name = John Email =
john12#yahoo.com
Then This name and email variable values are changing with the change of pages. For example if I click on any product page the variable values which I am passing changes to some other user's information.
Name becomes Ricky Email becomes ricky23#gmail.com
this variable values are kept on changing back to john and from john to something else with the change of pages. So operator does not have any idea whom are they talking because the values are kept on changing. Also, user ricky or who ever it changes to also exist in the database. so it is picking up random person from the database.
This is what i did to pass the code to javascript. Please let me know if that is not the right code to pass the information. Please check the php code I am using to fetch information from Magento. Roughly, I receive incorrect value once in 5 times. Please provide some assistance. Thanks in advance.
<?php
$customer = Mage::getSingleton('customer/session')->getCustomer();
$email = $customer->getEmail();
$firstname = $customer->getFirstname();
$lastname= $customer->getLastname();
$name = $firstname . ' ' . $lastname;
?>
<script type="text/javascript">
if (typeof(lpMTagConfig) == "undefined"){ lpMTagConfig = {};}
if (typeof(lpMTagConfig.visitorVar) == "undefined"){ lpMTagConfig.visitorVar = [];}
lpMTagConfig.visitorVar[lpMTagConfig.visitorVar.length] = 'Email=<?php echo $email; ?>';
lpMTagConfig.visitorVar[lpMTagConfig.visitorVar.length] = 'Name=<?php echo $name; ?>';
</script>
I'm also attaching a snap shot
I'd be interested to hear how you're adding this code to the page? Is it in it's own block, or are you adding it to footer.phtml, or similar? If your adding to an existing block be sure to check the block caching settings of that template.
To confirm the caching hypothesis I'd ask the following:
Do you get the same name, all the time, on the same page? When you refresh the page, do you get the same name and email in the Javascript?
Does the problem persist with caching disabled?
This doesn't sound like a singleton problem at all. Each execution of the PHP script is isolated from the others, serving one page request. There's no chance of another customer's object moving between invokations of the script.
It is a matter of understanding the singleton pattern. If you call your code twice:
$customer_1 = Mage::helper('customer')->getCustomer()->getName();
$customer_2 = Mage::helper('customer')->getCustomer()->getName();
you get two different instances of the object. But... if one of them has already implemented a singleton pattern in its constructor or has implemented a singleton getInstance then both objects will actually point to the same thing.
Looking at the customer/helper/Data.php code you can see the function
public function getCustomer()
{
if (empty($this->_customer)) {
$this->_customer = Mage::getSingleton('customer/session')->getCustomer();
}
return $this->_customer;
}
That means that in one of the cases singleton is already implemented/called and in other one - not as the property is already set.
The correct way to work with quote/customer/cart in order to get always the correct data is always to use the singleton pattern.
So using this:
$customer = Mage::getSingleton('customer/session')->getCustomer();
always guarantee that you get the correct customer in that session. And as may be you know singleton pattern is based on registry pattern in app/Mage.php:
public static function getSingleton($modelClass='', array $arguments=array())
{
$registryKey = '_singleton/'.$modelClass;
if (!self::registry($registryKey)) {
self::register($registryKey, self::getModel($modelClass, $arguments));
}
return self::registry($registryKey);
}
and looking at app/Mage.php:
public static function register($key, $value, $graceful = false)
{
if (isset(self::$_registry[$key])) {
if ($graceful) {
return;
}
self::throwException('Mage registry key "'.$key.'" already exists');
}
self::$_registry[$key] = $value;
}
...
public static function registry($key)
{
if (isset(self::$_registry[$key])) {
return self::$_registry[$key];
}
return null;
}
you can see that Magento checks is it is already set. If so, Magento will either throw an Exception, which is the default behavior or return null.
Hope this will help you to understand the issue you face.
I have sorted this out. I have moved the code from footer.phtml to head.phtml and it's working fine now.Values are not changing anymore. If anyone know the logic behind please post and I will change my answer. So far this is working.
I'm trying to write a Magento (CE 1.4) extension to export order data once an order has been paid for. I’ve set up an observer that hooks in to the sales_order_invoice_save_after event, and that is working properly - my function gets executed when an invoice is generated. But I’m having trouble getting information about the order, such as the shipping address, billing address, items ordered, order total, etc.
This is my attempt:
class Lightbulb_Blastramp_Model_Observer {
public function sendOrderToBlastramp(Varien_Event_Observer $observer) {
$invoice = $observer->getEvent()->getInvoice();
$order = $invoice->getOrder();
$shipping_address = $order->getShippingAddress();
$billing_address = $order->getBillingAddress();
$items = $invoice->getAllItems();
$total = $invoice->getGrandTotal();
return $this;
}
}
I tried doing a print_r on all those variables, and ended up getting a lot of data back. Could someone point me in the right direction of getting the shipping address of an order?
Thanks!
Many Magento objects are based on Varien_Object, which has a method called getData() to get just the usually interesting data of the object (excluding the tons of other, but mostly useless data).
With your code you could either go for all the data at once:
$shipping_address = $order->getShippingAddress();
var_dump($shipping_address->getData());
or directly for specific single properties like this:
$shipping_address = $order->getShippingAddress();
var_dump(
$shipping_address->getFirstname(),
$shipping_address->getLastname(),
$shipping_address->getCity()
);
To understand how this works, I'd recommend to make yourself more familiar with the Varien_Object and read a bit about PHPs magic methods, like __call(), __get() and __set().
Try print_r($shipping_address->toArray());