ClassExtender: MyExtraUserFields - best way to save an input 'checked' property as a '1' in Manager

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kjf Reply #1, 11 years, 3 months ago

I'm using the chunk 'MyExtraUserFields' to incorporate my extended user fields into the User Profile form in Manager. To display an extended field value of '1' as a checked box, I have the following code in the chunk 'MyExtraUserFields':

...
<div class="x-form-item x-tab-item">
        <input id="emailRoutine" type="hidden" name="emailRoutine" value="[[+emailRoutine]]" />
        <input id="emailRoutineChkbox" type="checkbox" [[+emailRoutine:eq=`1`:then=`checked`]] /> 
	<label class="x-form-item-label" for="emailRoutine">Send notices of dances and events</label>
</div>
...

This works nicely to display a checked box if [[+emailRoutine]] = '1'. But how do I translate the 'checked' property into a '1' or '' upon saving? I've used JQuery to do this in the front end user profile, but I'm not sure how that translation might be done within the mgr context.

Thanks for any suggestions!

Karl Forsyth

This question has been answered by multiple community members. See the first response.

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donshakespeare Reply #2, 11 years, 3 months ago

Write a small plugin and fire it OnDocFormSave (supposedly better than OnBeforeDocSave) http://rtfm.modx.com/revolution/2.x/developing-in-modx/basic-development/plugins/system-events/onbeforedocformsave

If you have jQuery already in the Manager, cool, else load it somehow, or write in plain JS.
Do relatively the same thing you did in the frontend, code-wise.

Your plugin in PHP will wrap and shoot out your JS code at the appropriate time.

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kjf Reply #3, 11 years, 3 months ago

Writing a plug-in triggered by a system event was just the guidance I needed, thank you!

I had difficulty figuring out how to load some validating javascript into the (mgr) user form on the OnDocFormSave event, so instead I made the field modifications by iterating through the $_POST array:

<?php
if ($modx->event->name == 'OnBeforeUserFormSave') {

    $emailRoutineChkboxVal = '';
    $emailRoutineVal = '';
    
    foreach($_POST as $key=>$value) { 

        if ($key == 'emailRoutineChkbox') {
            if ($value == 'on') {
                $emailRoutineChkboxVal = 'checked';
            }
        } else {
            if ($key == 'emailRoutine') {
                if ($emailRoutineChkboxVal == 'checked') {
                    $value = '1';
                } else {
                    $value = '';
                }  
                $_POST['emailRoutine'] = $value;
            }
        }

    }
    return;
}

It's probably not the most elegant solution, but it's working.

Best wishes, Karl

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BobRay Reply #4, 11 years, 3 months ago

FYI, the outer 'if' is unnecessary if OnBeforeUserFormSave is the only event it's attached to.

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kjf Reply #5, 11 years, 3 months ago

Right - fixed it. Thanks!

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