I'm creating a simple Joomla 2.5 module that will have an html form.
mod_mymodule/tmpl/default.php:
<form method="post" id="myemailform" action="">
<label for="ReferralName">Enter Name:</label><input type="text" name="name" value="<?php echo modCamcloudReferralHelper::getReferralName(); ?>">
<label for="ReferralEmail">Enter Email Address:</label><input type="text" name="email">
<label for="ReferralMessage">Enter Message (optional):</label><textarea class="message"></textarea>
<span class="countdown"></span>
<button type="submit" value="Send Email">Send Email</button>
<?php echo JHtml::_('form.token'); ?>
</form>
I have a helper class at:
mod_mymodule/helper.php - this just has some utility functions in it.
My question is what is the usual convention here to process my form on the server side. I tried to find examples of what people have done but I can't seem to find anything. Do I just put everything in the helper class:
<form method="post" id="myemailform" action="..\helper.php">
Or something like that? Thanks in advance.
Yes, you should do form processing in module helper class. Keep any logic out of the template file, and you can use mod_mymodule.php to call helper methods and assign variables before including the view file.
Do not set as form action helper file! I think in your case action should be the same page, so you can also ommit action url.
Edit: As requested in the comments, this would be the content of your mod_mymodule.php
// include helper file
require_once dirname(__FILE__).'/helper.php';
// call some method of the helper class
$items = modMymoduleHelper::getItems();
$moduleclass_sfx = htmlspecialchars($params->get('moduleclass_sfx'));
// render view file from mod_mymodule/tmpl/default.php, $items is available in the view file
require JModuleHelper::getLayoutPath('mod_mymodule', $params->get('layout', 'default'));
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I'm building the website based on Joomla 3. I need to disable the validation of the fields: name, username, password1 (the second, because the first is password2) and email2 and use email1 as username (I installed the plugin Email for user authorization).
I have tried to remove these fields in file components/com_users/models/forms/registration.xml but the validation is still remaining. If I don't remove them but only change the rows required="true" to false for these fields the registration doesn't work at all and any user stored in the DB. How can I disable these fields?
It's not an easy workaround, and you will need some basic knowledge of Joomla and PHP, but I'll try to explain it to you as simple as i can.
>>> Creating view template override
First of all you will need to create your Registration view template override (to keep it Joomla update proof). To do so, create folder /templates/YOUT_TEMPLATE/html/com_users/registration and copy /components/com_users/views/registration/tmpl/default.php file there.
From now on you can modify registration output in your template folder.
>>> Modifying registration form output
By default Joomla takes all fields from form file /components/com_users/models/forms/registration.xml, where they are defined, and outputs them in a view. But if we don't want to use ALL the fields, we need to output fields manually.
My example code only output E-mail and Password fields for registration. Here's a sample code to do so: (default.php file)
<?php
defined('_JEXEC') or die;
JHtml::_('behavior.keepalive');
?>
<div class="grid_8" id="register_block">
<div class="content_block">
<h1>Registracija</h1>
<div class="login<?php echo $this->pageclass_sfx?>">
<form id="member-registration" action="<?php echo JRoute::_('index.php?option=com_users&task=registration2.register'); ?>" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<div>
<div class="login-fields">
<label id="jform_email1-lbl" for="jform_email1">E-mail:</label>
<input type="text" name="jform[email1]" id="jform_email1" value="" size="30">
</div>
<div class="login-fields">
<label id="jform_password1-lbl" for="jform_password1">Password:</label>
<input type="password" name="jform[password1]" id="jform_password1" value="" autocomplete="off" size="30">
</div>
<button type="submit" class="button"><?php echo JText::_('JREGISTER');?></button>
<input type="hidden" name="option" value="com_users" />
<input type="hidden" name="task" value="registration2.register" />
<?php echo JHtml::_('form.token');?>
</div>
</form>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Please note, that I've also replaced task value from registration.register to registration2.register, I did this to bypass some of validation rules using my own controller.
>>> Creating controller override
Locate file /components/com_users/controllers/registration.php and create a copy of it called registration2.php in same folder.
Open file registration2.php and change It's class name from UsersControllerRegistration to UsersControllerRegistration2
From now on Joomla registration form will use this class to create a new user.
Find a method called register and find this line:
$requestData = JRequest::getVar('jform', array(), 'post', 'array');
This is where Joomla get's registration form data. Add the following lines:
$requestData['name'] = $requestData['email1'];
$requestData['username'] = $requestData['email1'];
$requestData['email2'] = $requestData['email1'];
$requestData['password2'] = $requestData['password1'];
It will add missing registration info, and help you pass validation.
NOTE: This is a sample code, to show the main logic. If anyone has a better solution, I'd be more than happy to hear it.
Following same idea, a simpler solution might be just including hidden inputs with values in com_users\views\registration\tmpl\default.php above
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary validate"><?php echo JText::_('JREGISTER');?></button>
add
<input type="hidden" id="jform[username]" name="jform[username]" value="username" />
<input type="hidden" id="jform_name" name="jform[name]" value="name" />
It would pass the validation and you would no longer need to override controllers etc.
I try make PUT request but i can't. My form.
<form method="put" action="http://localhost/index.php/book">
<input type="text" name="bookName" />
<input type="submit" value="Send"/>
</form>
My controller
<?php
require(APPPATH.'libraries/REST_Controller.php');
class Book extends REST_Controller {
function index_put(){
echo $this->put('bookName');
}
}
?>
The problem is that do not show anything.
The HTML standard does not support put inside the <form method=""> attribute, if you put anything else other than post or get it should be sent as a GET request according to spec.
The canonical workaround implemented by many framewrok for this is to include a hidden _method field in your form and put the actual HTTP verb there. It seems like you are using this library, and it does this _method parameter workaround too.
I am trying to implement something like this.
http://app.maqetta.org/mixloginstatic/LoginWindow.html
I want the login page to load but if you click the signup button then an ajax will replace the login form with the signup form.
I have got this to work using this code
dojo.xhrGet({
// The URL of the request
url: "'.$url.'",
// The success callback with result from server
load: function(newContent) {
dojo.byId("'.$contentNode.'").innerHTML = newContent;
},
// The error handler
error: function() {
// Do nothing -- keep old content there
}
});'
the only problem is the new form just loads up as a normal form, not a dojo form. I have tried to return some script with the phaser but it doesnt do anything.
<div id="loginBox"><div class="instructionBox">Please enter your details below and click <a><strong>signup</strong>
</a> to have an activation email sent to you.</div>
<form enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded" class="site-form login-form" action="/user/signup" method="post"><div>
<dt id="emailaddress-label"><label for="emailaddress" class="required">Email address</label></dt>
<dd>
<input 0="Errors" id="emailaddress" name="emailaddress" value="" type="text"></dd>
<dt id="password-label"><label for="password" class="required">Password</label></dt>
<dd>
<input 0="Errors" id="password" name="password" value="" type="password"></dd>
<dt id="captcha-input-label"><label for="captcha-input" class="required">Captcha Code</label></dt>
<dd id="captcha-element">
<img width="200" height="50" alt="" src="/captcha/d7849e6f0b95cad032db35e1a853c8f6.png">
<input type="hidden" name="captcha[id]" value="d7849e6f0b95cad032db35e1a853c8f6" id="captcha-id">
<input type="text" name="captcha[input]" id="captcha-input" value="">
<p class="description">Enter the characters shown into the field.</p></dd>
<dt id="submitButton-label"> </dt><dd id="submitButton-element">
<input id="submitButton" name="submitButton" value="Signup" type="submit"></dd>
<dt id="cancelButton-label"> </dt><dd id="cancelButton-element">
<button name="cancelButton" id="cancelButton" type="button">Cancel</button></dd>
</div></form>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
var widget = dijit.byId("signup");
if (widget) {
widget.destroyRecursive(true);
}
dojo.parser.instantiate([dojo.byId("loginBox")]);
dojo.parser.parse(dojo.byId("loginBox"));
});
</script></div>
any advice on how i can get this to load as a dojo form. by the way i am using Zend_Dojo_Form, if i run the code directly then everything works find but through ajax it doesnt work. thanks.
update
I have discovered that if I load the form in my action and run the __toString() on it it works when i load the form from ajax. It must do preparation in __toString()
Firstly; You need to run the dojo parser on html, for it to accept the data-dojo-type (fka dojoType) attributes, like so:
dojo.parser.parse( dojo.byId("'.$contentNode.'") )
This will of course only instantiate dijits where the dojo type is set to something, for instance (for html5 1.7+ syntax) <form data-dojo-type="dijit.form.Form" action="index.php"> ... <button type="submit" data-dojo-type="dijit.form.Button">Send</button> ... </form>.
So you need to change the ajax contents which is set to innerHTML, so that the parser reckognizes the form of the type dijit.form.Form. That said, I urge people into using a complete set of dijit.form.* Elements as input fields.
In regards to:
$(document).ready(function() {});
This function will never get called. The document, youre adding innerHTML to, was ready perhaps a long time a go.
About Zend in this issue:
Youre most likely rendering the above output form from a Zend_ Dojo type form. If the renderer is set as programmatic, you will see above html a script containing a registry for ID=>dojoType mappings. The behavior when inserting <script> as an innerHTML attribute value, the script is not run under most circumstances (!).
You should try something similar to this pseudo for your form controller:
if request is ajax dojoHelper set layout declarative
else dojoHelper set layout programmatic
I've created a custom form, similar to a customer registration form, in Magento.
i want to prepopulate this form when an error messages arises.
Does anyone know how I can prepopulate a custom form in Magento?
Without seeing you code it is hard to say which method will method will work, but one of these method should work.
Using JavaScript Validation - client side validate, only post if all require info is correct
<form name="my-form" id="my-form" method="post">
<label for="username">
< ?php echo $this->__("User name") ?> <span>*</span></label><br />
<input type="text" id="username" name="username" class="input-text required-entry"/>
.....
</form>
<script type=”text/javascript”>
//< ![CDATA[
var customForm = new VarienForm('my-form');
//]]>
</script>
See a list of all the validation class name
Repopulate field
To get a list of all the post variable information that the customer fill out
Mage::app()->getRequest()->getPost();
To get a form field (eg. <input type='text' name='firstname' ... />)
Mage::app()->getRequest()->getPost('firstname');
So in you .phtml try (this will not work if you doing a redirect on error)
<input type='text' name='firstname' value="<?php echo Mage::app()->getRequest()->getPost('firstname');?>" />
If the above doesnt work then you need the save the post info into a session.
In your controller if validation fail save the information to customer session
Mage::getSingleton( 'customer/session' )->setData( 'yourFormName', Mage::app()->getRequest()->getPost() );
In your phtml template, print the data if 'yourFormName' variable session exist.
Using codeigniter, I've been trying to load a view inside of a foreach loop, as follows:
$posts = $this->postslibrary->getAllPosts();
foreach($posts as $post){
$home['content'][$i] = $this->load->view('post', $post['data'], true);
$i++;
}
$this->load->view('head');
$this->load->view('home', $home);
$this->load->view('footer');
Each of those post views looks a little like this:
<div class="postnum<?=$post_num?>">
<p>Posted by: <?=$poster_name?></p>
<p>Reply to: <?=$poster_name?></p>
<form>
<input type='text' />
<input type='submit' />
</form>
</div>
And they're being loaded mostly successfully in the 'home' view (which is below for thoroughness).
<div ="posts">
<?php
for($i=0;$i<$count;$i++)
{
echo($content[$i]);
}
?>
<div class="clear"></div>
<a href='/posts/browse/'>Load more items</a>
</div>
But my output ends up looking like:
<div class='posts'>
<div class='postnum1'>
<p>Posted By: Jim</p>
<p>Reply to Jim</p>
<input type='text' />
<input type='submit' />
</div>
</div>
Why are my form tags not coming through?
Check if you already have a form around the current form. Chrome is one of the browsers which doesn't accept this and removes the second form. Using a form in a form is bad practice and I suggest you find a different solution to do the form handling.
Slightly left-of-field answer, but have a look at CodeIgniter Form Generator. I've used it a couple of times and it seems pretty good for generating forms from an array. It's a bit tricky to get your head around it to begin with, but it works well once you've gotten into it.
The basic idea is that you implement a form controller from your ordinary controller, and then just output it in your view file. It might be a more elegant (and sustainable) solution to what you're trying.