I want to populate my select box from the Laravel IoC Container.
App\Http\Utilities\BillingHelper.php
views/billing/create.blade.php
views/billing/edit.blade.php
Create the table:
Now, instead of the value, i want to display some flags and currency symbols.
Should i use mutators?
Problem
If i use mutators, when i open the edit page, i see always the first value selected, from the BillingHelper, instead of the choosen one.
Any help? Thanks.
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What if, on you edit page, you replace null on Form::select with $client->language and $client->currency.
I know that you area binding the values with Form::Model. But worth a try.
When you use mutators the matching won't occur anymore. You'll have to use a matching static array according to the values you'll return. (the flags)
You can make it work if you make a mutator for saving the data also and simplify again to the ['it', 'en', 'lv'], otherwise your saved data will differ and the initial mutator won't work the second time. You can still make a one-time-only test.
This is why:
Your form binding is using $bill->language to retrieve the actual stored data, and compare it with the values in your $bill::lang static array. If no match found, than the first value will be always selected.
Can you provide the the currency and language fields definition in the migration for the bill?
Also retrive your values from your bills DB and paste them here for language and currency. They must be in the defined static sets.
Laravel has a way of skipping the accessor/mutator by using
$model->getOriginal('data_field').
The "getOriginal()" gets the model's original attribute values.
Related
In Laravel form validation you can do this: file_description.* to validate each item of an array according to a set of rules. The problem is, the system automatically returns "file_description.1 is required" as an error message if the field is required and not filled in.
More on that here: https://ericlbarnes.com/2015/04/04/laravel-array-validation/
Now, I'm not a complex man, I just want the field to say "File Description 1 is required". I am aware you can set messages but a) my input arrays are dynamically generated by jquery (click to add more type scenario) so I'd have to use a loop like in the above example b) I feel like there must be a better way.
Is there a way to either extend the core validation system to simply return a humanized name for the array field as Laravel does with regular fields, or is there an option I missed in the docs that allows for this? I'd rather not get involved with doing some regex type search to fix this.
I am new to Laravel and am building a simple CRUD app to learn more about the framework. I am curious about the proper use of accessors.
I thought accessors would be great for formatting a model's properties for display in a view, much like a filter in Angular. Currently I have a few accessors set to convert char(1) fields to full values in the view, like "c" to cash or "f" to financed. Is this the intended (or an acceptable) use of accessors? If so, what is a good way to prevent accessors from formatting properties that are binded to a form, for instance, in the edit route.
For example, I am storing a monetary amount in the db as a decimal but formatting it with characters ($150,00) for display in the show route. How can I prevent the accessor from altering the value when populating the edit form? (Validation will fail as the input is limited to numeric values).
http://laravel.com/docs/4.2/eloquent#accessors-and-mutators
http://laravel.com/docs/4.2/html#form-model-binding
Everything depends on your needs. The key is that you don't need to create accessors to actual columns/properties. For example let's assuyme in DB you have price field.
Using the following code:
$model = Model::find(1);
echo $model->price;
You can display row price just to display data from database.
But you can also create accessor for unexisting property:
public function getCurPriceAttribute($value)
{
return '$ '.($this->price * 1.08); // for example adding VAT tax + displaying currency
}
now you can use:
$model = Model::find(1);
echo $model->price;
echo $model->cur_price;
Now if you want to put data into form you will use $model->price to allow user to change it without currency and in other places where you want to display product value with currency you will use $model->cur_price
In general we call the jqgrid as in$("#grid_loc").jqGrid({});
But i want to specify the context like $("#grid_loc",context).jqGrid({}). But this is not working. Can somebody help in this?
I have to load server side data using url option.
Infact i occured to have this, as i have tabs on my page.
In each tab, i have to have a jqgrid, not different grids but same grid with different data .
Here i am getting the tab context using var tabset = $("div.tabset");
newdivid = $("div[class*='active_tab']",tabset).attr("id");
var newmenudivid = $("#"+newdivid);
And
the grid code as
$("#grid_workflow", newmenudivid).jqGrid({....});
I have been trying to find out a way to do this. you can find some of my effort in the comments section of the link
how to develop same jqgrid in multiple tabs
i was successful with id overwriting for the same purpose. But that is not a good way though. So i am forced to have another approach ie. context
I suppose that you misunderstand some important things which corresponds to id attribute. The most important that all elements on the page having id attribute have to have unique value of the attribute. In other words the ids have to be unique over the whole HTML page.
So if you need create for example tree grids inside of tree tabs you have to define different id attributes for every grid. For example; grid_workflow1, grid_workflow2, grid_workflow3. If you create the tabs and grids dynamically then you can have some variable in the outer scope (for example global variable) and increase the value of the variable. You can construct id of the grid using some prefix (like "grid_workflow") and the value of the variable. In the way you can create multiple grids with unique ids. Many JavaScript libraries uses the way to generate unique id attribute. Ij you want you can use $.jgrid.randId() method which will returns you unique strings which can be used as ids.
Because of the syntax $("#grid_workflow", newmenudivid) you should understand one important thing. I would recommend never use it. The reason is very easy. It could help only if you have id duplicates. In all other cases if will works exactly like $("#grid_workflow") but slowly. The reason is easy to understand. Web browser hold internally the list if all ids on the page and if you use getElementById method directly of indirectly (in $("#grid_workflow")) the searching of the element with the required id will be like searching in the index in the database. So you will have best performance results. If you use $("#grid_workflow", newmenudivid) then you don't allow web browser to use the index of elements by id. So the usage of context will follow to slow searching throw all children elements of newmenudivid. So you should avoid usage of jQuery context with id selectors.
I am sending over a series of array values from a posted form to an MVC3 Controller. I was hoping the default modelbinder would be able to parse this but I'm having some difficulty with it.
The array is in the following format:
order[0].[type]=some value.
I think this is the reason the model binder is not parsing my values because I'm not getting anything populated in my model.
What would be another way to handle this?
Probably need to post more of your code so I can see what you are doing exactly. However saying this you need to pass the model to the view/partial view on the response you are trying to retrieve on the post request.
If not you will have to iterate through the Form Collection that will be returned and the Actions Methods type e.g. ActionMethodName(FormCollection form), one issue is name versus id its the name of the Kendo UI control that is used to get the value not the id.
1As far as I remember the right format was:
orders[0].OrderID=13;
orders[0].Name="test";
orders[1].OrderID=15;
orders[1].Name="again test";
The indexing should start from 0 and increase by 1.
Check this out: http://haacked.com/archive/2008/10/23/model-binding-to-a-list.aspx
This question might seem stupid but i nonetheless i believe it's a worth asking questioin.
I work on some web application when we use tags which are attached to articles.
When adding new article users provides a list of tags he wish to associate with his new article.
So when the form is submitted and my MVC controller processes request i have a string with tags from the form. I split the tags string and i get an array of tag words. Then i need a
list o tags ids from db. So i came up with a method that takes a list of tag words and checks if each tag already exists in db. If given tag is already in db then tag's id is appended to result array. If tag does not exist in db it is created and then id of just created tag is appended to result array.
My question is: what is the best name for such a method? This method creates tags only if necessary and returns list of tags' ids.
I tried this names, but none of them looks right to me:
fetchTagsIds(List tagWordsList)
createOrFindsTagsIds(List tagWordsList)
obtainTagsIds(List tagWordsList)
I need a name that really reflects what the method does. Thanks for your help :)
I'd drop the "s" in "Tags". So that the method is:
FetchTagIds(List tagWordsList)
IdsOfTags. That it creates them is an implementation detail (as is the fact that it uses a relational database in the first place). All that matters is that it gives you unique ids for tags (e.g. it could also hash them with a perfect hash function, or lookup an ID in the web.
If you're having trouble coming up with a name that accurately describes what your method does, that could be because you method does too much. Perhaps it would be better to refactor it into two:
findTagsByName(List tagNames) would return a list of Tag objects based on list of names you pass in
persistTags(List tags) - or saveTags(), or createTags() - would persist a list of Tag objects.
getTagIDs?
Get suggests that the code will do something to get an ID when one doesn't exist to fetch.