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How does page/action/ID construct work


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zenmonkey

Community Member, 545 Posts

5 September 2009 at 2:00am

I'm trying to figure out how the page/action/ID construct works, but the documentation page doesn't exist.

I have a Product Review form in my Product_Controller. In the template the Form Gets automagically Hidden and Revealed with jQuery. However when I add the reCaptcha plug-in all hell breaks loose. I figure the problem is the AJAX call in reCaptcha doesn't like to be called into a HIdden div. So I thought why don't I make the form generation an AJAX call.

Reading the AJAX intro in the REcipes section I understand I need to call DataObjects as pages, and tell the page controller to use a differnrt tempalte for AJAX calls. But I can't get the form to Render in its own Page.

Here is the Form Function if it Helps

class Product_Controller extends Page_Controller {
	
	/**
	 * Include the product group's requirements, override if the project has the file,
	 * otherwise use the module one instead
	 */	
	function init(){
		Requirements::javascript('jsparty/prototype.js');
		Requirements::javascript('jsparty/prototype_improvements.js');
		Requirements::javascript('jsparty/behaviour.js');
		Requirements::javascript('ecommerce/javascript/Product.js');
		
		//Requirements::themedCSS('Product');

		parent::init();
	}
	
	
	/**Create Review Form****
	************************
	************************/
	function UserProductReviewForm() {
      // Create fields
	  $recaptchaField = new RecaptchaField('MyCaptcha');
	  $recaptchaField->jsOptions = array('theme' => 'white');
	  
      $fields = new FieldSet(
							 new TextField('Name','Name:'),
							 new EmailField('Email','E-Mail Address:'),
							 new TextField('Location','Location:'),
							 new OptionsetField('Rating','Rating',array(
																		'1' => '1',
																		'2' => '2',
																		'3' => '3',
																		'4' => '4',
																		'5' => '5',
																		)
												),
							 new TextField('Title','Review Title:'),
							 new TextareaField('Review'),
							 //$recaptchaField,
							 new HiddenField('ProductID', '', $this->ID),
							 new HiddenField('ProductName','',$this->Title)
      );
      // Create actions
      $actions = new FieldSet(
         new FormAction('doReview', 'Submit')
      );
 
      return new Form($this, 'UserProductReviewForm', $fields, $actions);

   }
   
   function doReview($data, $form) {
      $review = new Review();
      $form->saveInto($review);
      $review->write();
   }	
}

I've commented out the offending reCaptcha element. Shouldn't I be able to load the form with

mysite.com/product-name/UserProductReviewForm

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Willr

Forum Moderator, 5523 Posts

5 September 2009 at 11:40am

Shouldn't I be able to load the form with mysite.com/product-name/UserProductReviewForm

No as UserProductReviewForm returns a Form Object. You would include $UserProductReviewForm in the main product name page to load the form or make your own action which just returns an array

function addreview() {
return array(
'Title'=> "Add Review",
'Form' => $this->UserProductReviewForm()
);
}

Then you would go mysite.com/product-name/addreview and have the ability to have a ProductPage_addreview.ss template which has the $Form var to load your form.

Documentation is a bit light on this but its started.

http://doc.silverstripe.com/doku.php?id=execution-pipeline
http://doc.silverstripe.com/doku.php?id=director