Hallo folks,

I have been extending the (daily trunk from yesterday) Poll Module a little bit.

I gave it a Field called PollaName (only PollTitle was available until now) which I want to use to select the Poll inside ShowPoll (instead of random).

Its working for now when adding the following function to the Page_Controller:

      function MyPoll() {
            $PollName = 'myfirstpoll';
            return new ShowPoll($this, $PollName);
      }

a next step will be to have a select Field on the Page Object to select a poll to be shown on this Page. This is no big Deal to Implement, but I don't want to hardcode this inside the Page class. Instead i prefere to use (haven't done this before) a Decorator.

I'm noit quite sure, I understand the Decorator Patterns right, but for my understanding, all I have to do is to is to write a Decorator class as foloowed:

class Pollable extends SiteTreeDecorator {
      function extraStatics(){
            return array('db' => array('ShowPoll' => 'Text'));
      }

      function updateCMSFields(&fields){
            // add Dropdown List with Poll here
      }

      // add any function I want to use in Frontend
}

Than I can add DataObject::add_extension('Page', 'Pollable'); to the Polls _config.php an all Pages inheriting Page should be able to select a poll to be shown in the Frontend.

The function to Show the Poll will normaly be added to the Page_Controller. If I add this function to my Pollable Decorator, will it than be available in my Page_Controller to, or do I have to add an extension for the Controller too (and how do i do this)?

So I gave it a try and wrote the following Decorator:

<?php

/**
 * Page Decorator, to make every Page choose a Poll or select from Parent
 */
class Pollable extends SiteTreeDecorator {

      function extraStatics(){
            return array('db' => array('SelectedPoll' => 'Int'));
      }

      function updateCMSFields(&$fields){
            $fields->addFieldToTab('Root.Content.Poll', new DropdownField('SelectedPoll', 'Poll', $this->owner->PollsArray())); 
      }

      function ShowPoll() {
            //die(print_r($this->owner, true).'id'.$this->owner->SelectedPoll);
            return new ShowPoll($this->owner, 'ShowPoll', $this->owner->SelectedPoll);
      }

      function PollsArray(){
            $PollsArray = array();

            foreach(DataObject::get('Poll') as $Poll){
                  $PollsArray[(string)$Poll->ID] = $Poll->PollName;
            }

            return $PollsArray;
      }
}
?>

The good thin is, the correct pollform is shown, the bad thing is, the form submission doesn't work.
Thats the output if I try to submit the Pollform.

Action 'ShowPoll' isn't allowed on class Page_Controller

ok, got it working. Here is the code for the two needed Decorators:

Pollable.php
/**
 * Page Decorator, to make every Page choose a Poll or select from Parent
 */
class Pollable extends SiteTreeDecorator {

      function extraStatics(){
            return array('db' => array('SelectedPoll' => 'Int'));
      }

      function updateCMSFields(&$fields){
            $fields->addFieldToTab('Root.Content.Poll', new DropdownField('SelectedPoll', 'Umfrage', $this->owner->PollsArray())); 
      }

      function PollsArray(){
            $PollsArray = array();

            foreach(DataObject::get('Poll') as $Poll){
                  $PollsArray[(string)$Poll->ID] = $Poll->PollTitle;
            }

            return $PollsArray;
      }
}

------------
PollableController.php
/**
 * Page_Controller Decorator, to make every Page choose a Poll or select from Parent
 */
class PollableController extends Extension {

      public static $allowed_actions = array('ShowPoll');

      function ShowPoll() {
            //die(print_r($this->owner, true).'id'.$this->owner->SelectedPoll);
            return new ShowPoll($this->owner, 'ShowPoll', $this->owner->SelectedPoll);
      }
}

The Extensions mus be loaded in _config.php (I just added this to poll_module/_config.php) with the following to lines:

// add Pollable to Page
DataObject::add_extension('Page', 'Pollable');
Object::add_extension('Page_Controller', 'PollableController');

on ShowPoll.php change Line 16 to
function __construct($controller, $name, $id) {
and line 19 to
$poll = DataObject::get_one('Poll', 'IsActive = true AND ID = \''.$id.'\'', true);

Thats all (the PollName was removed again by me).