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Data Model Questions /

Moderators: martimiz, Sean, Ed, biapar, Willr, Ingo, swaiba

Writing Custom Data to fields onWrite

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Patrick Arlt

Community Member, 15 Posts

15 April 2010 at 2:53pm

I have a page type of "Venue" setup with 2 fields "Address" which I want CMS Editors to input and "LatLong" which will store the latitudes and longitude of a Google Geocoding Request (this will be used to generate google maps later).

I would like this all to happen automatically whenever the page is saved and published from the CMS. Is this possible what functions/methods should I use?

I have dug around in the documentation and nothing seems to quite fit my needs.

Any suggestions?

Willr

Forum Moderator, 5523 Posts

15 April 2010 at 4:35pm

Sounds like onAfterWrite() would work for that.

http://doc.silverstripe.org/doku.php?id=datamodel&s=onbeforewrite#onbeforewrite

Thats the onBeforeWrite() but there is also onAfterWrite() and events for your datamodel on most actions.

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