Populate front-end form fields with xPDO query

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johnxx Reply #1, 12 years, 2 months ago

Where may I find a tutorial explaining how to populate front end form fields retrieving data with xPDO ?

select list > get value from spec. table

auto-suggest/complete fields > get value get value from spec. table and allow new data creation if value doesn't exist.

I guess FormIt2db extra is designed to do that.

Additionally I'd like to add auto-suggest feature to a front-end form (like smart tagging) with retrieved values. [ed. note: johnxx last edited this post 12 years, 2 months ago.]
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exside Reply #2, 12 years, 2 months ago
It's all about fetching the right data and outputting it to your JS in the frontend in the format it needs...
```
$objs = $modx->getCollection('yourObject', array('query' => 'value'));
$output = array();

foreach ($objs as $obj) {
    // do something, e.g. prepare an output array 
    $output[] = $obj->get('field');
}

return json_encode($output, true);
```
but without further information about what exactly you try to do and what JS components you use in the frontend it's difficult to help.