Hi,

I would just pass/attach one or many objects to my component 'default.htm' view from the method onRun() (or onRender maybe?) of this same component. How can I do that? I would something simply like from a Laravel controller: return view('my.view', compact('my_var_1', 'my_var_2', 'my_var_3'));

So, I tried...

public onRun()
{
     $myObject = MyModel::where('id', 1)->with('a_related_model')->get();
     $this->page['something'] = $myObject;
}

And...

{{ dump(something) }}
{{ something.id }}
{{ something.slug }}
{{ something.title }}

or...

{% for something in somethings %}
{{ something.value }}
{% endfor %}
...

Nothing works (except 'user' accessible from any view). Unfortunately official documentation is too vague about this point, or there's a subtlety I didn't understand about the components...

Thanks for help.

Last updated 4 years ago

Hi! You can try declaring a public property and assign your object to that property:

...
class Something extends ComponentBase
{
     public $something;
     public onRun()
     {
          $myObject = ....;
          $this->something = $this->page["something"] = $myObject;
     }
}

It should be accessible from default.html view with SELF

{% set something = __SELF__.something %}
{{ dump(something) }}

As you said documentation is not very clear. Let me know!

That works! Thank you!

In the meantime, I was also able to find another method from API doc (not in standard doc): https://octobercms.com/docs/api#preparevars

(used by User Plugin too: https://octobercms.com/plugin/rainlab-user)

class Something extends ComponentBase
{
     public prepareVars()
     {
          $myObject = ....;
          $this->page["something"] = $myObject;
          $this->page['anotherthing'] = $this->getAnotherThing();
     }
     public getAnotherThing()
     {
          ...
     }
     public onRun()
     {
          $this->prepareVars();
     }
}

{{ dump(something) }}
{{ dump(anotherthing) }}

// Can too directly use user relations, without declaration from component's class
{{ dump(user.comments) }}

// Or get value from pivot column (don't forget 'pivot' array declaration in your model in this case)
{{ dump(user.steps.pivot.status) }}

I hope it will help other people....

Last updated 4 years ago