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tutorial #5 question: how to make has_many dropdown
24 May 2008 at 3:01am Last edited: 24 May 2008 3:01am
I was going through tutorial #5, and decided that I would like to see if the admin panel scaffolding could easily show a dropdown of choices when presented with a has_many datamodel relationship.
So I decided to make Student has_many Nationality, and promote nationality from a simple text field to a database object. Then I found a class called "DropdownField_withAdd"... and got so far as to having the "Add Student" popup link in the CMS display a dropdown called "Nationality"... but of course the dropdown is empty, and I don't see a way to get it to give me the option of creating new nationalities....
Here's the relevant code I created:
class Student extends DataObject {
static $db = array(
'FirstName' => 'Text',
'LastName' => 'Text'
);static $has_one = array(
'Mentor' => 'Mentor',
'Nationality' => 'Nationality'
);public function getCMSFields_forPopup(){
$fields = new FieldSet();
$fields->push(new TextField('FirstName', 'First Name'));
$fields->push(new TextField('LastName', 'Last Name'));$Nationalities = Nationality::get('Nationality');
$Nationalities_array = array();
if ($Nationalities)
foreach ($Nationalities as $Nationality)
$Nationalities_array[$Nationality->getField('ID')]
= $Nationality->getField('Nationality');$fields->push(
new DropdownField_withAdd(
'Nationality',
'Nationality',
$Nationalities_array,
'addLink'
)
);return $fields;
}}
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class Nationality extends DataObject {
static $db = array(
'Nationality' => 'Text'
);public function getCMSFields_forPopup(){
$fields = new FieldSet();
$fields->push(new TextField('Nationality', 'Nationality'));
return $fields;
}}
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Re: tutorial #5 question: how to make has_many dropdown
24 May 2008 at 1:00pm
Had a quick look at the code. The documentation isn't very helpful on this one, but the important bit is this:
// from Line 123 of sapphire/forms/DropdownField.php
if($this->addLink) $addLink = <<<HTML
<a class="addlink link" id="{$this->name}_addLink" href="$this->addLink" style="display: inline; padding-left: 1em; text-decoration: underline;">$this->addText</a>
HTML;So, there should be a link next to your dropdown box but buggered if I can get it to show up here. Also, as far as I can see, even if you get the link to show you have to create a controller that actually does the adding. There is nothing actually in the class that does this for you, and it's a bit beyond me at the moment.
A small thing, I think you also need to add a $has_many into your Nationalities object to complete the relationship properly.
static $has_many = array ( 'Students' => 'Student' );
Hope this helps.
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