Regarding thread #143123 (http://www.silverstripe.org/archive/show/143123),

How do I call a method on a data object? In willr's response, he does not call the method anywhere in the data object. How does this work?

Here's another post with the same issue. http://www.silverstripe.org/archive/show/117959

Yeah, that's kind of tricky.

He defines the method getImageFileName(), and you'll see in the table, he sets up a field for ImageFileName in the table headings array. If Silvesrtripe doesn't find a property or field called ImageFileName, it knows to try running a method called getImageFileName.

It's all done with the wildcard methods in PHP5, __get() and __call(). Very cool stuff.

Hi UncleCheese,

Thanks for the information. It has helped me to understand what is happening here.

Unfortunately I still have an issue. I have everything set up correctly but the method does not return anything. Not even a simple string return for testing. I think I'm at the same point as described in thread #117959 linked above.

Why would there be no return value?
Thank you.

It seems to work for me on 2.2.3 if that helps :)

Hi dio5,

That is interesting. The version I'm working with is 2.3 rc2. It makes me nervous to potentially use this version in a production environment if something as basic as calling a method on a data object doesn't work.

Here's an example of my code:

class LinksTable extends Page {

    static $many_many = array(
        'LinksTable1' => Links',
    );

    function getCMSFields() {
        $fields = parent::getCMSFields();

        $LinksTable1tablefield = new ManyManyComplexTableField(
            $this,
            'LinksTable1',
            'Links',
            array(
                'LinkName' => 'Link Name',
                'LinkTitle' => 'Link Title',
                'LinkLocation' => 'Link URL',
                'LinkColumnName' => 'Link Column'
            ),
            'getCMSFields_forPopup'
        );
        $LinksTable1tablefield->setAddTitle( 'New Link' );
        $LinksTable1tablefield->setPageSize(25);

        return $fields;
    }

}

The field in question is "LinkColumnName". In the database this data is stored as type 'Int'. I want to display a text value on output, depending on the return value.

The function being called, as it is right now:

class Links extends DataObject {
   static $db = array(
        'LinkName' => 'Text',
        'LinkTitle' => 'Text',
        'LinkLocation' => 'Text',
        'LinkColumn' => 'Int'
    );

    static $has_one = array(
    );

    static $belongs_many_many = array(
        'LinksTable1' => 'LinksTable'
    );

    function getCMSFields_forPopup() {
        $options = array('1'=>'Column One','2'=>'Column 2','3'=>'Column 3');

        $fields = new FieldSet();
        $fields->push( new TextField( 'LinkName', 'Link Name' ) );
        $fields->push( new TextField( 'LinkTitle', 'Link Title' ) );
        $fields->push( new TextField( 'LinkLocation', 'Link URL' ) );
        $fields->push( new DropdownField('LinkColumn', 'Link Column', $options));
        return $fields;
    }

    function getLinkColumnName() {
        return "test";
    }

}

This should return "test" in each row of the "LinkColumnName" column, but it returns nothing.

Any insight would be appreciated.

Hmm, would indeed expect this to work (unless I overlooked something).

Any chance you could try this on a 2.2.3 to make sure it's the version difference?

Hi dio5,

I tried my code in 2.2.3 today with no success. The same results occurred with blank fields.

Would it be possible for you to share a code sample which works in 2.2.3?

Thanks.