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Show List of Items from Component in Module Select

6 years 2 weeks ago - 6 years 2 weeks ago #1780 by Matthew Jones
I have a component where the user can enter a list of locations. In the module, I want them to be able to select a single location in the "item" tab. Currently there is a text field there requesting the item's ID. I want to replace that with a dropdown list of ll the items (locations) that were entered in the component.

Can someone point me in the right direction of how to do this?

Here's what I have so far:

/com_name/administrator/models/fields/SingleLocation.php
<?php

// No direct access to this file
defined('_JEXEC') or die('Restricted access');

JFormHelper::loadFieldClass('list');

class JFormFieldSingleLocation extends JFormFieldList {
  /**
	 * The field type.
	 *
	 * @var         string
	 */
	protected $type = 'SingleLocation';

  /**
	 * Method to get a list of options for a list input.
	 *
	 * @return  array  An array of JHtml options.
	 */
	protected function getOptions()
	{
		$db    = JFactory::getDBO();
		$query = $db->getQuery(true);
		$query->select('id,locationname');
		$query->from('#__name_location');
		$db->setQuery((string) $query);
		$locations = $db->loadObjectList();
		$options  = array();

		if ($locations)
		{
			foreach ($locations as $location)
			{
				$options[] = JHtml::_('select.option', $location->id, $location->locationname);
			}
		}

		$options = array_merge(parent::getOptions(), $options);

		return $options;
	}
}

I then added the following to /com_name/modules/mod_name/mod_name.xml
<fieldset
                name="item_content"
                label="MOD_NAME_ITEM_CONTENT_TAB"
                description="MOD_NAME_ITEM_CONTENT_TAB_DESC"
                addfieldpath="/administrator/components/com_name/administrator/models/fields">
                <field
                    name="item_table" type="list"
                    label="MOD_NAME_TABLE_LBL"
                    description="MOD_NAME_TABLE_DESC">

	                  <option value="#__name_location">#__name_location</option>
                </field>

                <field name="item_id" type="SingleLocation" label="Location"
	                 description="Location you want to display"
	                  required="true" />

All I get when I look at the module though is a textbox instead of a dropdown.

- Matthew
Last edit: 6 years 2 weeks ago by Matthew Jones.

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6 years 2 weeks ago #1782 by Matthew Jones
Replied by Matthew Jones on topic Show List of Items from Component in Module Select
Figured it out. I needed to name the file singlelocation.php instead of SingleLocation.php.

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