Unable to retrieve fields names with $http->postVariable

Thursday 17 September 2009 4:31:24 am

Hi all,
I'm a newbie and I have a question regarding the custom input validation as extension of eZContentObjectEditHandler class.

I've read this article http://serwatka.net/blog/enhanced_content_edit_handler_for_validation_rules_in_ez_publish_4_1 and I've made my own custom handler to validate input fields.
Now... the question... In that article, the name of the variable retrieved is an "easy name" ('ExampleTextField') but when I'm trying to retrieve fields from my form, the name that Exponential assigns them is something like "ContentObjectAttribute_type_id".

Obviously these names change in every form accordingly to the field type and the element id and my custom handler "can't handle" nothing if I am not able to retrieve them with the "easy name" I've assigned them in the class that i've created.

I've tried to realize a custom edit template changing the field names but I've another problem (obviously): the standard validation don't work anymore...

Where am I wrong?
Thank you in advance.

A.

Friday 18 September 2009 3:49:13 am

Thank you man, but I still have a problem...

The attribute ('data_type_string') return me type like"eztext" but, the data type of the field name (in the submitted form) is "data_text"... and so on for other data types...

There's another attribute I've to specify instead of 'data_type_string'?

Thanks again
A.

Friday 18 September 2009 4:20:01 am

> There's another attribute I've to specify instead of 'data_type_string'?
Actually, this is defined in the templates of the datatypes, and is unfortunately not following any rules so could be anything.

If you only need for that attribute use something like:

$inputName = self::base . '_data_text_' . $contentObjectAttributes->attribute( 'id' );

For all datatypes you can simply check their validateObjectAttributeHTTPInput() or fetchObjectAttributeHTTPInput() methods to see what kind of post parameter pattern they use.
eztext: kernel/classes/datatypes/eztext/eztexttype.php

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Friday 25 September 2009 9:24:28 am

Hi guys,
first of all I wanna thank you for your guidelines, I solved almost all my problems...

I have another question... I have to validate an object (in a custom edit handler), but in validateinput function I'm not able to retrieve the parent node id until I don't publish it.

I check conditions in publish function, I can remove the node but I'm not able to alert the user after redirect.

    function publish( $contentObjectID, $contentObjectVersion ){
        $object =& eZContentObject::fetch( $contentObjectID );
        $contentClass =& $object->attribute('content_class');
		if($contentClass->attribute('id') == 51){
			include_once( 'lib/ezutils/classes/ezoperationhandler.php' );
			$nodooffertaID = $object->attribute('main_node_id');
			$offerta = eZContentObject::fetchByNodeID($nodooffertaID);
			$parentNodeID = $object->attribute('main_node_id');
			$oggettoofferta = eZContentObjectTreeNode::fetch($parentNodeID);			
			$nodoastaID = $oggettoofferta->attribute('parent_node_id');
			$oggettoasta = eZContentObject::fetchByNodeID($nodoastaID);
			$dataMapasta = $oggettoasta->dataMap();
			$chiusuraasta = $dataMapasta['data_chiusura'];
			$datachiusura = $chiusuraasta->attribute('data_int');
			if($datachiusura < mktime()){
                                //remove object
				eZContentObjectTreeNode::removeNode($nodooffertaID);
			}
		}
	}

I think if I can validate the object in validateinput I can alert user and then redirect him on the edit page with the alert message...

Thankyou in advance