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Change field post value after submit

Nina

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3 years 10 months ago #9745 by Nina

Change field post value after submit was created by Nina

If I had a field called name and I wanted to ensure that the value always had uppercase on first letter of each word (ucwords) where can I change the post field value before it's saved? I want this both in frontend and backend form but after hours of Googling I still don't know where to start. Do I create a plugin, a function?
Thanks!

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Søren Beck Jensen

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3 years 10 months ago #9746 by Søren Beck Jensen

Replied by Søren Beck Jensen on topic Change field post value after submit

You would need to do this in the controller.

You will most likely have method called ``store() that has a variable called $data you would need to run the ucwords($data->field_name) before the data is saved.

If you paste the method from your controller I can show you in detail.

Søren Beck Jensen
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Nina

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3 years 10 months ago #9747 by Nina

Replied by Nina on topic Change field post value after submit

In backend I can'f find any method store(). Does that mean that my component are using the joomla method by default (excuse me if I'm not using the correct terms). However after googling some more I found protected function prepareTable($table) in my form model and tried this:

protected function prepareTable($table)
	{
		jimport('joomla.filter.output');

		if (empty($table->id))
		{
			// Set ordering to the last item if not set
			if (@$table->ordering === '')
			{
				$db = Factory::getDbo();
				$db->setQuery('SELECT MAX(ordering) FROM #__ginv_gravvard');
				$max             = $db->loadResult();
				$table->ordering = $max + 1;
			}
		}
		// Always capital on first letter
 		$form = JFactory::getApplication()->input->get('jform', array(), 'array');
    	$inventerare = $form['inventerare'];
		if (isset($inventerare)) {
        $table->inventerare = ucwords($table->inventerare);
    	}
	}
}

It seems to be working but I'm not sure if it's the correct way of doing this and I also have subform repeatable values I wish to alter and I'm not sure how to get those.

In frontend I didn't find a store() method either, only public function save($key = NULL, $urlVar = NULL) which seems to handle the storing part?

I'm grateful for your time and I'm having so much fun using the component creator and learning how to do things properly!

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Emmanuel Tsalampounis

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3 years 2 weeks ago #9838 by Emmanuel Tsalampounis

Replied by Emmanuel Tsalampounis on topic Change field post value after submit

Hello Nina,
If you are a premium member please open a support request here:
www.component-creator.com/en/help/contact

with your component name and your development environment to help you on that

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