I've been extending the rainlab user plugin following the video Tutorial. This one works great from backend. Now I want to allow frontend user to edit and update profile specific data. How do I manage to get saved profile fields in component extending the user form?

I'm working in same issue, I think we need create a custom form.

You will need to create your own Component / AJAX handler to handle the introduced fields, see the Account component in RainLab.User for an example. It is used currently to update the user.

Easy way would be to make a new form that takes the frontend post request and updates the extended model's data with the new values.

I believe you cannot use the same onUpdate function to update the extended models data because there is one problem... The $user->save() only saves the data of the current model, whereas a push() would save the related models as well. So i suppose it's better that you write a new function onUpdate() with either a push() or something like

public function onUpdate()
{
$profile = // Do a where query to get the current row in profile model
$profile = post('headline'); // update the data with the data from the post
$profile -> save(); // Save the model
}

Last updated 9 years ago

I created a plugin that extends the User plugin. I followed the User Plus structure, and I added some fields in users table and I used this on my Plugin.php file to save the custom data:

UserModel::extend(function ($model){
        $model->addFillable([
            'birthdate',
        ]);
});

Last updated 8 years ago