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Using currentUser() for field auto population
9 September 2011 at 7:36am
I am trying to do something that seems fairly simple, but has hitched me up. I am trying to auto populate the "author" field with the current user name. I am using:
class NewsPage extends Page {
static $db = array(
'Date' => 'Date',
'Author' => 'Varchar'
);
static $has_one = array();
function getCMSFields() {
$member = Member::currentUser();
$f = parent::getCMSFields();
$f->addFieldToTab("Root.Content.Main", new TextField("Author", "Author", $member->FirstName));
return $f;
}
}I am not seeing anything show up in the field. I have also tried just dropping in a "test" into the value field with no luck.
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Re: Using currentUser() for field auto population
9 September 2011 at 8:43am
This is because the CMS loads all field values from the class before returning the form, but after your defaults have been applied.
If you just want to set the Author value on creation, you can use the populateDefaults() function, using something like:
public function populateDefaults() {
parent::populateDefaults();
$this->Author = Member::CurrentUser()->FirstName;
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Re: Using currentUser() for field auto population
9 September 2011 at 9:09am
Thanks, that will do the trick, even easier than I thought. So what is the purpose of adding the "value" parameter when setting up the field?
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Re: Using currentUser() for field auto population
9 September 2011 at 9:15am
That's mainly used for frontend forms, to provide a default value.
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