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Change field post value after submit

Nina

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4 år 5 månader sedan #9745 av Nina

Change field post value after submit skapades av Nina

If I had a field called name and I wanted to ensure that the value always had uppercase on first letter of each word (ucwords) where can I change the post field value before it's saved? I want this both in frontend and backend form but after hours of Googling I still don't know where to start. Do I create a plugin, a function?
Thanks!

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Søren Beck Jensen

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4 år 5 månader sedan #9746 av Søren Beck Jensen

Svar från Søren Beck Jensen i ämnet Change field post value after submit

You would need to do this in the controller.

You will most likely have method called ``store() that has a variable called $data you would need to run the ucwords($data->field_name) before the data is saved.

If you paste the method from your controller I can show you in detail.

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Nina

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4 år 5 månader sedan #9747 av Nina

Svar från Nina i ämnet Change field post value after submit

In backend I can'f find any method store(). Does that mean that my component are using the joomla method by default (excuse me if I'm not using the correct terms). However after googling some more I found protected function prepareTable($table) in my form model and tried this:

protected function prepareTable($table)
	{
		jimport('joomla.filter.output');

		if (empty($table->id))
		{
			// Set ordering to the last item if not set
			if (@$table->ordering === '')
			{
				$db = Factory::getDbo();
				$db->setQuery('SELECT MAX(ordering) FROM #__ginv_gravvard');
				$max             = $db->loadResult();
				$table->ordering = $max + 1;
			}
		}
		// Always capital on first letter
 		$form = JFactory::getApplication()->input->get('jform', array(), 'array');
    	$inventerare = $form['inventerare'];
		if (isset($inventerare)) {
        $table->inventerare = ucwords($table->inventerare);
    	}
	}
}

It seems to be working but I'm not sure if it's the correct way of doing this and I also have subform repeatable values I wish to alter and I'm not sure how to get those.

In frontend I didn't find a store() method either, only public function save($key = NULL, $urlVar = NULL) which seems to handle the storing part?

I'm grateful for your time and I'm having so much fun using the component creator and learning how to do things properly!

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Emmanuel Tsalampounis

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3 år 7 månader sedan #9838 av Emmanuel Tsalampounis

Svar från Emmanuel Tsalampounis i ämnet Change field post value after submit

Hello Nina,
If you are a premium member please open a support request here:
www.component-creator.com/en/help/contact

with your component name and your development environment to help you on that

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