I really hope someone can help me.
I need to be able to serve banners in categories which are dependant on a session variable - and can't find a component which does that. So I'd like to extend the Joomla Banner component in order to select banners based on a session variable which contains the category path.
The correct session variable is being stored correctly.
In order to do this I added an option in the banners module .xml to allow for a session variable and the name of the session variable. This is being stored correctly in the module table within the params field along with the other module parameters.
Then I started on the
components > banners > com_banners > models > banners.php
by adding two lines of code in getListQuery where the SQL is assembled. They are:
$sess_vars = $this->getState('filter.sess_vars');
$sess_vars_name = $this->getState('filter.sess_vars_name');
But both variables contain nothing even though the ones the component already has can be retrieved fine. Without a doubt I need to change something somewhere else as well - but just can't figure out what to do.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
The first thing to do is not hack the core files, hacking the core prevents you from using the built-in update feature to apply the regular bug fixes and security patches released by Joomla! (e.g. the recently released 2.5.9 version).
Rather make a copy of them and modify it so it's called something else like com_mybanners. Apart from the folder name and the entry point file (i.e. banners.php becomes mybanners.php) you will also want to update the components banners.xml to mybanners.php.(You will need to duplicate and modify both the front end /components/com_banners/ and /administrator/components/mybanners.php.)
Because of the way Banners work (i.e. banners are displayed in a module) you will also need to duplicate and modify /modules/mod_banners/,/modules/mod_banners/mod_banners.php and /modules/mod_banners/mod_banners.xml. Changing mod_banners to mod_mybanners in each location.
In Joomla! components the state is usually populated when JModel is instantiated, however, in this case the component is really about managing banners and recording clicks the display is handled by mod_banners. So, you will want to add some code to mod_mybanners.php to use the session variables you want to act on. Normally when a models state is queried you will collect the variables via JInput and add them to your object's state e.g.
protected function populateState()
{
$jApp = JFactory::getApplication('site');
// Load state from the request.
$pk = $jApp->input->get('id',0,'INT');
$this->setState('myItem.id', $pk);
$offset = $jApp->input->get('limitstart',0,'INT');
$this->setState('list.offset', $offset);
// Load the parameters.
$params = $app->getParams();
$this->setState('params', $params);
// Get the user permissions
$user = JFactory::getUser();
if ((!$user->authorise('core.edit.state', 'com_mycomponent')) && (!$user->authorise('core.edit', 'com_mycomponent')))
{
$this->setState('filter.published', 1);
$this->setState('filter.archived', 2);
}
}
The populateState() method is called when a state is read by the getState method.
This means you will have to change your copy of /components/com_banners/models/banner.php to capture your variables into the objects state similar to my example above.
From there it's all your own code.
You can find all of this information in the Developing a Model-View-Controller tutorial on the Joomla Doc's site
Related
My custom component has to call the core content component and create an entry in the #__content table with proper values. When I add a new article in the article manger I have to give only a title as mandatory field value and other values will be created automatically. I want to pretend this in my custom component.
Instead of updating the database table directly load the ContentModelArticle from com_content and use the model to create new articles. This will generate the alias for you, do all of ACL etc based on the View Access and let any system or content plugins have a look at the article and do whatever they do.
ContentModelArticle extends from JModelAdmin so you can use it's ->save($data) method. Where $data is the array of content to bind to the new ContentModelArticle in the save() method.
So, a basic example would be :
// Create our data with some sample code
$data['title'] = 'My Title';
$data['catid'] = 10; /* NB. this is just an example category Id obviously you'll need to provide a suitable catid for your site */
$data['articletext'] = 'Starting text...'; /* From memory you can't have an empty article.*/
// Get the Article model
$articleModel = $this->getModel('Article', 'ContentModel', array());
// Then save it:
$articleModel->save($data);
Obviously you can populate as many fields as you want, including state, publish_up, publish_down, create_by and lots of others — just look at the structure of the content table in the database #__content to see the various columns and their type.
NB: This is untested code just typed into the browser. It's also been a while since I did any 2.x stuff.
Finally, as this question is about Joomla specific implementation details, you may get a better result if you, try asking on the Joomla Q&A StackExhange site
I have a module which allows the user to choose a category, which is then used for filtering the component's output. So when the user first clicks on the menu item, the view shows items from all categories, then as they click on the module, a param such as &catid=69 etc. is added to the url and used to filter the items displayed.
A system plugin complements the behaviour by registering the extra catid param i.e.
$registeredurlparams->catid = 'INT';
$app->set('registeredurlparams', $registeredurlparams);
The module uses the category id to create the cache id, and shows the top-level categories + the subcategories of the category that was chosen.
This works fine with both conservative cache enabled in the system configuration and the System Cache plugin enabled.
My concern is that I cannot get it to work with progressive cache: even though the component output is cached correctly, the module doesn't get updated (so I never see the subcategories).
Eventually I plan to make the extension available on the JED, and I'd like to be compatible with all possible cache configurations. Is there any possibility to force the progressive cache to add the parameters I want to the cache id?
Workarounds such as sending the full category tree and doing it with ajax will not be accepted.
One thing you could look at is ContentModelArticle in the back end. You will notice that cleanCache()
forcibly clears the content modules that could be impacted by a save or create.
protected function cleanCache($group = null, $client_id = 0)
{
parent::cleanCache('com_content');
parent::cleanCache('mod_articles_archive');
parent::cleanCache('mod_articles_categories');
parent::cleanCache('mod_articles_category');
parent::cleanCache('mod_articles_latest');
parent::cleanCache('mod_articles_news');
parent::cleanCache('mod_articles_popular');
}
I've always thought this was a sledge hammer/kludge since it doesn't let the webmaster control whether or not to do this, but you could do something along the lines of making a custom cleanCache() for your model.
Currently I'm experiencing a problem after editing orders in the Magento admin. The page is always redirected to another URL, the base of which belongs to the store view that the order belongs to. And this page requires re-login to the admin.
For example, I have two base URLs, each belongs to one store view:
www.example.old.com //old store view (default)
www.example.new.com //new store view
The system uses www.example.old.com as the default base URL. So under www.example.old.com I create an order for the new store and invoice it. Then on submitting the invoice, the page is redirected from
http://www.example.old.com/index.php/admin/sales_order_invoice/new/order_id/1234/
to
http://www.example.new.com/admin/sales_order/view/order_id/1234/
And it requires login for another time.
I traced the redirection code to Mage_Core_Model_Url
public function getRouteUrl($routePath=null, $routeParams=null)
...
$url = $this->getBaseUrl().$this->getRoutePath($routeParams);
public function getBaseUrl($params = array())
....
if (isset($params['_store'])) {
$this->setStore($params['_store']);
}
....
return $this->getStore()->getBaseUrl($this->getType(), $this->getSecure());
Then I don't know what to do. There is no parameter _store but it seems that Magento determines which store view to run based on the order being treated, when it is supposed to stay on the same base URL throughout the admin.
Have you tried to enable customer data sharing between the stores in the backend?
Sorry for newbie answer, still learning magento
For those who may still show interests to this old entry, I share my solution. It is not a good one, indeed it is a hard-coded redirection to avoid going back to an uncertain URL, but it fixed the problem for me.
In the controller action where the redirection happens, modify
$this->_redirect(..., array(... => ...));
to
$this->_redirect(..., array(... => ..., '_store' => Mage::app()->getStore($storeId)));
This ensures that the redirection always goes to the specified store.
Reason is that Magento switchs context to store of order because it requires to translate the email template correctly.
Look at class Mage_Core_Model_Template there are two method _applyDesignConfig and _cancelDesignConfig. First function switches context and remember old context, second function should return all back. But, there is a bug. See more at: http://www.magthemes.com/magento-blog/magento-142-multiwebsite-admin-redirect-problem-quick-workaround/#comment-1084
In the joomla users admin when a users data is loaded, where is the function to call the users data
administrator/components/com_users/models/user.php
$result = parent::getItem($pk);
This is the code that returns the data, but I need to find where this function is? I want to amend the query as I've added some form fields, but I need to know which parent, as there are many getItem functions in Joomla
Thanks in advance
Joomla 1.7 provides a mechanism ( http://docs.joomla.org/Creating_a_profile_plugin ) for adding extra fields through user plugins. This is a far more robust method than editing core files - for one thing edits to core files risk being overwritten as soon as you update and as updating is a simple push button affair it is likely to be sooner rather than later.
found it libraries/joomla/application/component/modeladmin.php
So, I'm not quite sure how I should structure this in CakePHP to work correctly in the proper MVC form.
Let's, for argument sake, say I have the following data structure which are related in various ways:
Team
Task
Equipment
This is generally how sites are and is quite easy to structure and make in Cake. For example, I would have the a model, controller and view for each item set.
My problem (and I'm sure countless others have had it and already solved it) is that I have a level above the item sets. So, for example:
Department
Team
Task
Equipment
Department
Team
Task
Equipment
Department
Team
Task
Equipment
In my site, I need the ability for someone to view the site at an individual group level as well as move to view it all together (ie, ignore the groups).
So, I have models, views and controls for Depart, Team, Task and Equipment.
How do I structure my site so that from the Department view, someone can select a Department then move around the site to the different views for Team/Task/Equipment showing only those that belong to that particular Department.
In this same format, is there a way to also move around ignoring the department associations?
Hopefully the following example URLs clarifies anything that was unclear:
// View items while disregarding which group-set record they belong to
http://www.example.com/Team/action/id
http://www.example.com/Task/action/id
http://www.example.com/Equipment/action/id
http://www.example.com/Departments
// View items as if only those associated with the selected group-set record exist
http://www.example.com/Department/HR/Team/action/id
http://www.example.com/Department/HR/Task/action/id
http://www.example.com/Department/HR/Equipment/action/id
Can I get the controllers to function in this manner? Is there someone to read so I can figure this out?
Thanks to those that read all this :)
I think I know what you're trying to do. Correct me if I'm wrong:
I built a project manager for myself in which I wanted the URLs to be more logical, so instead of using something like
http://domain.com/project/milestones/add/MyProjectName I could use
http://domain.com/project/MyProjectName/milestones/add
I added a custom route to the end (!important) of my routes so that it catches anything that's not already a route and treats it as a "variable route".
Router::connect('/project/:project/:controller/:action/*', array(), array('project' => '[a-zA-Z0-9\-]+'));
Whatever route you put means that you can't already (or ever) have a controller by that name, for that reason I consider it a good practice to use a singular word instead of a plural. (I have a Projects Controller, so I use "project" to avoid conflicting with it.)
Now, to access the :project parameter anywhere in my app, I use this function in my AppController:
function __currentProject(){
// Finding the current Project's Info
if(isset($this->params['project'])){
App::import('Model', 'Project');
$projectNames = new Project;
$projectNames->contain();
$projectInfo = $projectNames->find('first', array('conditions' => array('Project.slug' => $this->params['project'])));
$project_id = $projectInfo['Project']['id'];
$this->set('project_name_for_layout', $projectInfo['Project']['name']);
return $project_id;
}
}
And I utilize it in my other controllers:
function overview(){
$this->layout = 'project';
// Getting currentProject id from App Controller
$project_id = parent::__currentProject();
// Finding out what time it is and performing queries based on time.
$nowStamp = time();
$nowDate = date('Y-m-d H:i:s' , $nowStamp);
$twoWeeksFromNow = $nowDate + 1209600;
$lateMilestones = $this->Project->Milestone->find('all', array('conditions'=>array('Milestone.project_id' => $project_id, 'Milestone.complete'=> 0, 'Milestone.duedate <'=> $nowDate)));
$this->set(compact('lateMilestones'));
$currentProject = $this->Project->find('all', array('conditions'=>array('Project.slug' => $this->params['project'])));
$this->set(compact('currentProject'));
}
For your project you can try using a route like this at the end of your routes.php file:
Router::connect('/:groupname/:controller/:action/*', array(), array('groupname' => '[a-zA-Z0-9\-]+'));
// Notice I removed "/project" from the beginning. If you put the :groupname first, as I've done in the last example, then you only have one option for these custom url routes.
Then modify the other code to your needs.
If this is a public site, you may want to consider using named variables. This will allow you to define the group on the URL still, but without additional functionality requirements.
http://example.com/team/group:hr
http://example.com/team/action/group:hr/other:var
It may require custom routes too... but it should do the job.
http://book.cakephp.org/view/541/Named-parameters
http://book.cakephp.org/view/542/Defining-Routes
SESSIONS
Since web is stateless, you will need to use sessions (or cookies). The question you will need to ask yourself is how to reflect the selection (or not) of a specific department. It could be as simple as putting a drop down selection in the upper right that reflects ALL, HR, Sales, etc. When the drop down changes, it will set (or clear) the Group session variable.
As for the functionality in the controllers, you just check for the Session. If it is there, you limit the data by the select group. So you would use the same URLs, but the controller or model would manage how the data gets displayed.
// for all functionality use:
http://www.example.com/Team/action/id
http://www.example.com/Task/action/id
http://www.example.com/Equipment/action/id
You don't change the URL to accommodate for the functionality. That would be like using a different URL for every USER wanting to see their ADDRESS, PHONE NUMBER, or BILLING INFO. Where USER would be the group and ADDRESS, PHONE NUMBER< and BILLING INFO would be the item sets.
WITHOUT SESSIONS
The other option would be to put the Group filter on each page. So for example on Team/index view you would have a group drop down to filter the data. It would accomplish the same thing without having to set and clear session variables.
The conclusion is and the key thing to remember is that the functionality does not change nor does the URLs. The only thing that changes is that you will be working with filtered data sets.
Does that make sense?