Hey everyone! I have a plugin which extends the User model with relations. I want to go further by extending its forms. I've managed to add a field with the type 'relation', which gives me checkboxes. I'd like to have a RelationController-style box in the form instead. I figure I'd have to implement RelationController behavior on the UserController, but how do I extend it this way from my own plugin?? I'm using Rainlab\User Thanks.

Last updated 10 years ago

Did you work this out, if so can you post examples?

Just as a note to what I found as I have been doing some extending of the Rainlab\User plugin. Hopefully this will help someone out.

Example of extending the user plugin:

Directory Layout:

plugins
- ashleighsims
-- myplugin
--- extensions
---- user
----- UserExtentions.php
----- config_relation.yaml
----- config.yaml
----- _my_field_partial.htm

Extending the relation config...

...
use RainLab\User\Controllers\Users;
...
Users::extend(function ($controller) {
   // If the controller doesn't alredy implement the relation config add this...
   $controller->implement[] = 'Backend.Behaviors.RelationController';
   // See above directory layout to understand this better
   $controller->relationConfig = __DIR__ . '/config_relation.yaml';
});

Extending the fields...

...
use RainLab\User\Controllers\Users;
...
Users::extendFormFields(function ($widget) {
   $configFile = __DIR__ . '/fields.yaml';
   $config = Yaml::parse(File::get($configFile));

   $widget->addTabFields($config);
});