Hello Guys,

I've made a controller for a model and there is a password field in the form. The password column is filled in the database table but when I try to update the record in the form the field is empty.
How can I set to retreive information from password fields in the update form page?

Thank you for your help!

Can I see your code? Maybe I can help you :)

Hi,

Of course you can, but I'm not sure which part of my code you would like to see but here is my model:

<?php namespace Codebugs\Auth\Models;

use Model;
use Codebugs\Master\Models\Site;

/**
 * User Model
 */
class User extends Model
{
    use \October\Rain\Database\Traits\Validation;
    use \October\Rain\Database\Traits\Hashable;

    /**
     * @var string The database table used by the model.
     */
    public $table = 'codebugs_auth_users';

    /**
     * @var array Guarded fields
     */
    protected $guarded = ['*'];

    /**
     * @var array Fillable fields
     */
    protected $fillable = [];

    /**
     * @var array Hashable fields
     */
    protected $hashable = ['password'];

    /**
     * Validate model fields by these rules
     * @var array
     */
    protected $rules = [
        'full_name' => 'required',
        'username'  => 'required|unique:codebugs_auth_users,username',
        'password'  => 'required',
        'email'     => 'required|email',
        'site_id'   => 'required'
    ];

    /**
     * @var array Relations
     */
    public $hasOne = [];
    public $hasMany = [];
    public $belongsTo = [
        'site' => ['Codebugs\Master\Models\Site', 'primaryKey' => 'id']
    ];
    public $belongsToMany = [];
    public $morphTo = [];
    public $morphOne = [];
    public $morphMany = [];
    public $attachOne = [];
    public $attachMany = [];

    public function getSiteIdOptions($keyValue = null)
    {
        return Site::where('status','Live')->orderby('name')->lists('name','id');
    }

}

...and here is my fields.yaml

# ===================================
#  Form Field Definitions
# ===================================

fields:
    full_name:
        label: Full name
        type: text
        span: auto

    site_id:
        label: Site
        type: dropdown
        span: auto

    username:
        label: Username
        type: text
        span: auto

    password:
        label: Password
        type: password
        span: auto

    email:
        label: E-mail address
        type: text
        span: auto

    phone:
        label: Phone number
        label: text
        span: auto

    is_enabled:
        label: Enabled
        type: checkbox
        default: true

If you should see more please just let me know.
Thank you!

You cant display passwords, they are by default excluded from beeing prefilled. This has good reasons: Primarily, it is hashed, so it wouldnt make any sense to display it (you can't recreate the password from the hash!). On top of that, for security reasons passwords should never be displayed in plain text ;)

I understand but what is the best practice in such case?
I mean I should see the password field in the form (it does not matter if I see it empty) and if I give it some value it should update the database field but if I leave it empty it should do not update the password database field but update any other field I changed on form.
How can I change the behavior of the form to make it?

Last updated 12 years ago

@alxy, sorry for bumping this post, but I've just come across the same issue. Is there a solution to it? Basically, the goal here is to allow updating the form without re-entering the password every time.

to avoid the password is updated every time you save the form, you can verify if the password field has a change before you update de model

public function beforeUpdate()
{
    if($this->attributes['password']=='') {
        unset($this->attributes['password']);
    }
}