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    • 30025
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    I have been using Revo. Its great so far. I however would like to be able to create a document from the front end with a form. Kind of like newsPublisher did in Evo. Does anyone have an idea of how I could do this?
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      example with formit:

      [[!FormIt? 
      &hooks=`spam,formit2resource,email` 
      &preHooks=`resource2formit`
      &resource2formitfields=`parent,pagetitle,strasse,content`
      &emailTpl=`myEmailChunk` 
      &emailTo=`[email protected]`]]
      
      <h2>Resource Form</h2>
      <p>[[+fi.error.error_message]]</p>
      <form class="form" action="[[~[[*id]]]]" method="post">
          <input name="nospam:blank" type="hidden" />
          <input name="resource_id" type="hidden" value="[[+fi.id]]" />
          <label for="parent">
              Parent:
              <span class="error">[[+fi.error.parent]]</span>
          </label>
          <input id="parent" name="parent:required" type="text" value="[[+fi.parent]]" />	
      	<br/>
          <label for="pagetitle">
              Pagetitle:
              <span class="error">[[+fi.error.pagetitle]]</span>
          </label>
          <input id="pagetitle" name="pagetitle:required" type="text" value="[[+fi.pagetitle]]" />
          <br/>
      	<label for="content">
              Content:
              <span class="error">[[+fi.error.content]]</span>
          </label>
          <textarea id="content" cols="55" rows="7" name="content:required:stripTags">[[+fi.content]]</textarea>
      <br class="clear" />
      <div class="form-buttons">
              <input type="submit" value="Create Resource" />
          </div>
      </form>


      code for snippet formit2resource:

      <?php
      
      $doc = $modx->getObject('modResource',array('id'=>$hook->getValue('resource_id')));
      
      if (empty($doc)){
          $doc = $modx->newObject('modResource');
          $doc->set('createdby', $modx->user->get('id'));
      }
      else{
          $doc->set('editedby', $modx->user->get('id'));
      }
      
      $allFormFields = $hook->getValues(); 
      foreach ($allFormFields as $field=>$value)
      {
      
         if ($field !== 'spam' && $field !== 'resource_id'){
               $doc->set($field, $value);
          }
      }
      
      
      $doc->set('template', '1');
      $doc->save();
      
      foreach ($allFormFields as $field=>$value)
      {
          if ($tv = $modx->getObject('modTemplateVar', array ('name'=>$field)))
          {
              /* handles checkboxes & multiple selects elements */
              if (is_array($value)) {
                  $featureInsert = array();
                  while (list($featureValue, $featureItem) = each($value)) {
                      $featureInsert[count($featureInsert)] = $featureItem;
                  }
                  $value = implode('||',$featureInsert);
              }	
              $tv->setValue($doc->get('id'), $value);
              $tv->save();
          }
      }
      
      return true;
      ?>
      



      resource2formit:

      <?php
      if (isset($_GET['resId'])){
          if ($doc=$modx->getObject('modResource',array('id'=>$_GET['resId']))){
              $docarray=$doc->toArray();
              $fields = explode(',',$scriptProperties['resource2formitfields']);
              $fields[] = 'id';
      
              foreach ($fields as $field){
             
                  if ($doc->getFieldName($field) === null) {
                      /* if field isnt defined, look for TV value */
                      $tvValue = $doc->getTVValue($field);
                      if ($tvValue !== null) {
                          $hook->setValue($field,$tvValue);
                      }
                  } else {
                      /* otherwise get field value */
                      $hook->setValue($field,$docarray[$field]);
                  }    
              }
          }
      
          //$errorMsg = '<pre>'.print_r($docarray,true).'</pre>';  
          //$hook->addError('error_message',$errorMsg);  
      }
      
      
      return true;

      [ed. note: Bruno17 last edited this post 8 years, 9 months ago.]
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        • 30025
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        I’ll give this a try and see if I can get it to work. It might take a week or so, but I will post any problems I have.
          • 30025
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          It works great!! Looks like I didn’t have to wait a week to try it.

          My only issues is with TVs. I can create a document with the required template for a TV to be available but the TV content from the form will not be added to the resource’s TV field. I am creating the resource with the correct template that has the TV assigned to it. Can’t figure out what I’m doing wrong.

          Anyone have any ideas?
          • Saving TVs for a new resource is a nuisance, whether Evo or Revo. You can’t save a TV value until the resource is saved and you know what the resource ID is. Then you can save the TV value.
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              modified the code above for save TVs, which seems to work.
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                • 17422
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                I integrate your code, and work fine smiley thanks

                and now if i want update this resource, in a another page.

                I need to create a snippet to retrieve the value and generate the form and modify the snippet formit2db for retrieve the id of document and update ?
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                  I need to create a snippet to retrieve the value and generate the form and modify the snippet formit2db for retrieve the id of document and update ?

                  I hope you can use preHooks to set your values.
                  I’m upgrading to 2.0.1 at this time.
                  When its finished I can try it out and post my solution for this.
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                    • 17422
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                    thank you very much for your help,

                    I’ll watch for use the prehooks

                    Laurent
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                      ok, added preHook db2formit and modified snippetcall, formit2db and the form. Now you can create and edit resources.
                      add &resId=yourResourceID to edit resource to your URL, where yourResourceID is your id for resource you want to edit.
                      in your snippetcall set your fields (resourcefields or TVs) you want to edit with &db2formitfields=
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