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jwilson8767
jwilson8767

If you need to save two models using a form controller, you may run into some issues. However, it is possible! The key is to instantiate the related models manually.

Assume you have a Person model and a Phone model. On your People form controller you want to create/update the Phone model, but you don't want it to look like it's a separate record. Proxy fields to the rescue!

#Acme/Anvil/Models/Person/fields.yaml

fields:
    name:
        label: Name
        commentAbove: Text field, required. Given name in the first box, preferred name in the second box.

    # Proxy Fields
    phone[name]:
        span: auto
        label: Phone Name

    phone[number]:
        span: auto
        label: Phone Number

Shown above are two proxy fields which are denoted by the nested keys. Note that phone[] is the name of the relation on the Person model.

Once your proxy fields are defined, there's just one more important step: manually instantiating the related model.

//Acme/Anvil/Controllers/People.php
...
public function formExtendModel($model)
    {
        /*
         * Init proxy field model if we are creating the model
         */
        if ($this->action == 'create') {
            $model->phone = new Phone;
        }
        return $model;
    }
...

And viola! You can now save data on multiple models at a time. Note that this only works for a single related model (1 phone to 1 person), for more than one, use a Relation behavior.

See also: the People controller of the October Test Plugin

Fibonacci
Fibonacci

thank you jwilson8767. Very usefull!

or all of you can try this code if you want to extend some plugin. For example, i want to add image and location to KurtJensen.MyCalendar plugin.

  1. create your plugin
  2. add this code to your plugin.php
public function boot()
    {
        EventModel::extend(function($model) {
            $model->hasOne = [
                'place' => ['Rahman\Calendar\Models\Event']
            ];
            $model->attachOne = [
                'featured_image' => ['System\Models\File']
            ];

            $model->bindEvent('model.beforeDelete', function() use ($model) {
                $model->place && $model->place->delete();
            });
        });

        EventController::extendFormFields(function($widget, $model, $context) {
            if (!$model instanceof EventModel)
                return;

            if ($context == 'create')
                $model->place = new Event;

            $widget->addFields([
                'featured_image' => [
                    'label'      => 'Featured image',
                    'type'       => 'fileupload',
                    'mode'       => 'image',
                    'imageWidth' => 260,
                    'imageHeight'=> 260,
                    'span'       => 'auto'
                ],
                'place[location]' => [
                    'label'     => 'Location',
                    'span'      => 'auto',
                ]
            ]);
        });
    }

That's it!

hjfigueira
hjfigueira

Hi everyone. I'm having some troubles for use the proxy fields with fileupload and a help would be very apreciated.

With this in my controller ...

public function formExtendModel($model)
    {
        if ($this->action == 'create') {

            $openingMessage             = new Message();
            $openingMessage->creator    = BackendAuth::getUser();
            $openingMessage->file       = new File();

            $model->message             = $openingMessage;
        }
        return $model;
    }

... and this in my fields.yaml ...

    message[content]:
        label : Message
        type : textarea
        context : ['create']

    message[file]:
        label : File
        type : fileupload
        context : ['create']

.. I got this ...

Call to undefined method Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Collection::hasRelation()

.. am i doing something wrong ?

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jwilson8767
jwilson8767

View the stack trace to see what class through the exception, work from there.

Tschallacka
Tschallacka

awesome!
thanks!
I need mooooorrrreeee

mooorree

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Yakedo
Yakedo

I may be 5 years too late but I have to thank you on this one, this issue got me stuck for a while !

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