$fields['newReferences']['label'] = 'Add these references';
$fields['newReferences']['type'] = 'multi';
$fields['newReferences']['options'] = $options;

$this->form_builder->set_fields($fields);

It seems that the "multi" field type does not get initialised to show the "supercomboselect" implementation of the field. I get a similar problem with select2 - it doesn't initialise.

Should I expect form_builder to initialise the fields?
Should I expect it to work within a popup?
Should I be adding js to the field to get it to initialise, if so what (for multi & select2)?

Thanks.

I have recently started using Fuel CMS, and I would like to create a new view without a data model. Have checked the documentation, but cannot find how to do this.

I started a new project and after setup logged in, everything is working as expected.
Then created a new advanced module with the command:
php index.php fuel/generate/advanced reports
So, now I have a "Reports" entry in the left menu and a reports folder in the fuel/modules/ folder.

After this, I have created fuel/modules/reports/config files and fuel/modules/reports/views/report1.php
I created a html form in report1.php and I can click on the report1 entry in Reports, in the left menu, to view it, but there are no Fuel menus or header, just the form on a white background.

Could only find this old example of a view with menus working, but in my new project I am getting php errors instead of the left menu entries and my form is not fully visible, as it is under the left menu.

This is my report1.php file:
`<?php $this->load->module_view(FUEL_FOLDER, '_blocks/fuel_header'); // set some render variables based on what is in the panels array $no_menu = (!$this->fuel->admin->has_panel('nav')) ? TRUE : FALSE; $no_titlebar = (!$this->fuel->admin->has_panel('titlebar')) ? TRUE : FALSE; $no_actions = (!$this->fuel->admin->has_panel('actions') OR empty($actions)) ? TRUE : FALSE; $no_notification = (!$this->fuel->admin->has_panel('notification')) ? TRUE : FALSE; ?>

    <?php if ($this->fuel->admin->has_panel('nav')) : ?>
        <!-- LEFT MENU PANEL -->
        <?php $this->load->module_view(FUEL_FOLDER, '_blocks/nav'); ?>
    <?php endif; ?>

    <div id="fuel_main_panel<?=($no_menu) ? '_compact' : ''?>">
        <?php if ($this->fuel->admin->has_panel('titlebar')) : ?>
            <!-- BREADCRUMB/TITLE BAR PANEL -->
            <?php $this->load->module_view(REPORTS_FOLDER, '_blocks/titlebar_preactas')?>
        <?php endif; ?>

        <?php if ($this->fuel->admin->has_panel('actions') AND !empty($actions)) : ?>
            <!-- ACTION PANEL -->
            <div id="fuel_actions">
                <?php /* ?><?=$this->form->open('action="'.$form_action.'" method="post" id="form_actions" enctype="multipart/form-data"')?><?php */ ?>
                <?php if (!empty($actions)) : ?>
                    <?=$actions?>
                <?php endif; ?>
                <?php /* ?><?=$this->form->close()?><?php */ ?>
            </div>
        <?php endif; ?>

        <?php if ($this->fuel->admin->has_panel('notification')) : ?>
            <!-- NOTIFICATION PANEL -->
            <div id="fuel_notification" class="notification">
                <?php if (!empty($notifications)) : ?>
                <?=$notifications?>
                <?php endif; ?>
                <?php if (!empty($pagination)): ?>
                <div id="pagination"><?=$pagination?></div>
                <?php endif; ?>
            </div>
        <?php endif; ?>

        <?php 
        $main_content_class = '';
        if ($no_actions AND $no_notification) : $main_content_class = 'noactions_nonotification';
        elseif ($no_actions AND $no_titlebar) : $main_content_class = 'noactions_notitlebar';
        elseif ($no_titlebar) : $main_content_class = 'notitlebar';
        elseif ($no_actions) : $main_content_class = 'noactions';
        endif;
        ?>

        <div id="fuel_main_content<?=($no_menu) ? '_compact' : ''?>"<?=(!empty($main_content_class)) ? ' class="'.$main_content_class.'"' : ''?>>
            <!-- BODY -->
            <?php $this->load->module_view(REPORTS_FOLDER, 'preactas_content');  ?>

            <?=$this->form->hidden('fuel_inline', (int)$this->fuel->admin->is_inline())?>
        </div>
        <?=$this->form->close()?>
    </div>
</div>

<div id="fuel_modal" class="jqmWindow"></div>

<div id="fuel_main_content_inner">
    <div id="fuel_main_content_line" style='margin-bottom: 20px;'>
        <h3>Report1:</h3>
    </div>

    <div id="fuel_main_content_line">
        <form enctype="multipart/form-data">
            My form
        </form>
    </div>
</div>

I've mostly succeeded but can only get it to work with a local configuration in ./application/config/custom_fields.php

Is it possible to move the custom_fields.php to ./modules/my_module/config?
What's the naming convention (my_module_custom_fields.php)?
Is this configuration loaded automatically for all other modules that might want to use the new field type?

Thanks

Still here, loving Fuel CMS !
I am trying to make a small change in filters, but can not get things to work the way I would like to.

I have a brand and country filter, and i would like for the select to be: where (country in ("",$this->filters['country']) and brand in ("",$this->filters['brand']))
so that I get all the entries where country is either the one I selected or empty and brand is either the one i selected or empty.

I am able to make the correct where statement, but by default, the parent list_items will add :
AND (LOWER(country) LIKE "%country%" OR LOWER(brand) LIKE "%brand%")

How can i prevent the parent from adding another where clause ?

Cheers,
Xavier.

I've implemented the sample files from the simple module tutorial. In the CMS everything is working but on the front-end /articles/{slug} ends up on my default view instead of view/articles.php.

I have also added $pages['articles/:any'] = array('view' => 'articles'); to _variables/global.php

If I add an exit(); at the end of the view/articles.php, the page is displayed correctly.

What is redirecting my view to my default view? And how can I prevent this?

Thanks in advance.

I am ready to customize a model so that the parsing of the json is made in the model to feed the structures needed in fuel to admin the database (with the "classical" list view + edit form)
If that is possible, what would be the easiest way to proceed ?

Cheers,
Xavier

• an option is selected in a dropdown list
• a field is changed (like a date field)

Something like javascript "onblur"

I have been using Fuel for a while now, and I just love it !
I think it's a perfect balance for many things.

I am now trying to go to the next level

I would like to edit invoice details in the CMS, so for example,
Invoice table :
invoice_id, customer_name, address, city, etc ...
Items table :
item_id, invoice_id, description, quantity, price
(one to many)

In the form_fields of my Invoice_model, I added a template field :

$fields['invoice_items'] = [
    'view'=> '_admin/items',
    'type' => 'template',
    'repeatable' => true,
    'fields' => [
        'description' => [
            'style' => 'width: 400px; text-align:left'
        ],
        'quantity' => [
            'style' => 'width: 40px; text-align:center'
        ],
        'price' => [
            'style' => 'width: 60px; text-align:right'
        ]
    ]
];

and it displays correctly in the create/edit view.

I have several questions :

• how do I populate this "template" field (and sub fields) with the items from the Items table ? Is a Module the right class for my Invoice_controller ?
• is it the right thing to do, to save the invoice items in the "on_after_save" of my Invoice_model ?
• is there a simpler way to populate and save the items that I am missing ? (something similar to the has_many mechanism that would do this automagically) ?

Cheers !
Xavier

I've extended fuel_users table with extra "date_expire" date field which I use to check if account is about to expire.
Than I can run cronjob and set expired accounts to "inactive", by setting "active" to NO inside fuel_users table.

What I would love to do is change login way and display different error message. I would love to check the "date_expire" together with "active" column. If account is expired I would love to return message that its deactivated due expiration date.

I can extend _blocks/notifications.php to show different message if(date_expire < now()) kind of way.

There is probably something safer and better to do instead.

Possible way is to keep user "active" in database but force log-out after login and date_expire is checked. If expired, redirect user to different page and show account expiration message.

I would prefer option one, but don't know how to make it.

Thank you

Thanks

Thank you!
Jaime

I'm wondering where I can look to find information about using queries to insert data for a simple module and then populating the fuel_relationships table based on this data. In my simple module, the user can upload data for the Dictionary in bulk. If entries exist, the existing entry is updated. If entries don't exist, they're inserted. I handle this in my Dictionary model. The theme for each entry is has_many. The code in the model is below (note that this code is not functional because I've been messing around with it -- it was functional when I did not do the on_after_save hook to try and insert data into the fuel_relationships table):

public function d_upload($data = array()){ 
        $inserts = 0; 
        $updates = 0; 

        foreach($data as $k=>$d){ 
            $this->db->where('slug', $d['slug']);
            $query = $this->db->get('slp_dictionary');
            if ($query->num_rows() > 0){
                if(!empty($d['examples'])){ 
                    $d['examples'] = json_encode($d['examples']); 
                }

                $d = $this->on_before_save($d);
                $this->db->where('slug', $d['slug']);
                $this->db->set($d); 
                $this->db->update('slp_dictionary');
                $this->on_after_save(array('update', 'candidate_id'=>$query->result_array(), 'foreign_id'=>$d['theme']));
                $updates = $updates+1; 
            }
            else{
                if(!empty($d['examples'])){ 
                    $d['examples'] = json_encode($d['examples']); 
                }
                $d = $this->on_before_save($d);
                $this->db->set($d); 
                $this->db->insert('slp_dictionary'); 
                $inserts = $inserts+1; 
            }
        } 
        return $inserts.' new entries created and '.$updates.' existing entries updated successfully.';

public function on_before_save($values)
    {
        // this inserts the user ID of the person who edited this last 
        $CI=get_instance(); 
        $this->_editable_by_user();
        $values['last_modified_by'] = (!empty($this->limit_to_user_field) AND !empty($values['last_modified_by'])) ? $values['last_modified_by'] : $CI->fuel->auth->user_data('id');
        $values['publish_date'] = datetime_now();
        //$values['theme'] = implode($values['theme'], ','); 
        return $values;
    }
    public function on_after_save($values)
    {
        switch($values[0]){ 
            case "update": 
                $this->db->where(array('candidate_table'=>'slp_dictionary', 'candidate_key'=>$values['candidate_id'][0]['id']));
                $updateQ = $this->db->get('fuel_relationships'); 
                if(is_array($values['foreign_id'])){ 
                    if($updateQ->num_rows() < count($values['foreign_id'])){ 
                        echo 'less'; 
                    }
                    else{ 
                        echo 'more';
                    } 
                    foreach($values['foreign_id'] as $id){
                        $this->db->where(array('candidate_table'=>'slp_dictionary', 'candidate_key'=>$values['candidate_id'][0]['id']));
                        $this->db->set(array('foreign_key'=>$id));
                    }
                }
                else{ 
                    $this->db->set(array('foreign_key'=>$values['foreign_id']));
                } 
                //$this->db->update('fuel_relationships'); 
            break; 
            default: 

            break; 
        }   
    }   

I couldn't find any info on using has_many with insert() and update() and I couldn't find any samples in source code, so I was winging it so that the on_after_save hook would manipulate the fuel_relationships table. I got it to work in simple cases where a single existing entry has a single foreign key, but now I'm lost in the rabbit hole when an existing entry has one existing key, but not another and I need to update one and create another. (Logically, I know how to do it, but it seems like overkill and a time suck.)

So I'm wondering if there's a quick and easy way of inserting has_many foreign keys/updating existing ones?

Thanks!

I have special characters with diacritics and in alternate writing systems (Devanagari) in my pages. I've installed the Search Module and when it crawls my pages, it does not index any special characters. For instance, on a page that has this content:
कईं पाँब · kaĩĩ pããba

It will index it with all special characters removed:
ka pba

It seems that this probably originates from the scrape_page or index_page functions in the Search module's Fuel_search library, but I cannot really tell where it comes from internal to those functions. Is there a way to fix this?

Thanks!

Is there any way to give the user access to editing the handful of things that are logically page variables? For instance, page title? Right now I am setting the variables in the view file, and the user has no access for editing them.

Thanks.

I am working on a simple module for a dictionary, and in addition to the "Create" button that comes with the simple module, I want to add an 'list_actions' button to bring the user to a custom page where they can upload a file that will be parsed and inserted into the dictionary database. So far I have set up the module like this in MY_fuel_modules.php:

$config['modules']['dictionary'] = array(
    'module_name' => 'SLP Dictionary', 
    'permissions' => 'dictionary', 
    'js'=>'DictionaryController.js', 
    'display_field' => 'headword', 
    'table_headers' => array( 
        'id' => 'Entry #', 
        'headword' => 'Headword', 
        'gloss_en' => 'English', 
        'gloss_nep' => 'Nepali', 
        'theme' => 'Theme'
    ), 
    'icon_class' => 'ico_logs', 
    'archivable' => TRUE, 
    'list_actions' => array(
        'dictionary/upload' => 'Bulk Upload SFM'  
    ), 
    'pages' => array( 
        'base_uri' => 'dictionary', 
        'list' => 'dictionary/all', 
        'post' => 'dictionary/entry', 
    ), 
); 

A button is generated at the top which says "Bulk Upload SFM." However, when I click it, it takes me to http://.../fuel/dictionary/upload and this page generates a 404. How can I add a route to this page and select the admin view for it?

Should I make the bulk uploader a separate simple module?

Thanks!!

I am creating a module called article following the article in https://docs.getfuelcms.com/modules/tutorial

At the end, i created the file articles.php within /application/views/ directory, but the site returns 404 not found.

Can you please help me with it?

Here are my some code:
MY_fuel_modules.php
$config['modules']['articles'] = array(
'preview_path' => 'articles/{slug}',
'display_field' => 'title',
'sanitize_input' => array('template','php'),
);

Articles_model.php
class Articles_model extends Base_module_model {
function __construct()
{
parent::__construct('articles');
}
function form_fields($values = array(), $related = array())
{
$fields = parent::form_fields($values, $related);
$fields['content']['img_folder'] = 'articles/';
$fields['image']['folder'] = 'images/articles/';
return $fields;
}
}

class Article_model extends Base_module_record {
public function get_url()
{
return site_url('articles/'.$this->slug);
}
public function get_image_path()
{
return img_path('articles/'.$this->image);
}
}

THanks

I've successfully installed this module: https://github.com/daylightstudio/FUEL-CMS-Blog-Module I would like to ask how can I add a post gallery for upload a list of images, thanks.

Does absolutely nothing.

I'm assuming this function is for the list of all entries when you click on the menu item.

I have a working advanced module I'd like to get to pop up in a window - inline_edit style. I can get it to do this but the whole Fuel interface appears rather than just the module's home page.

Any suggestions on what I can do?

The main module's controller is initialised using:
require_once(FUEL_PATH.'/controllers/Module.php');
class test_module extends Module {
...
}

My tags are the names of 5 committees

I have a table of projects -- each project needs to be tagged with one or more of the committees -- think table with model & views -- each committee has a page, and all projects associated with that committee will be listed on the committee's page, some projects will be on the page for more than one committee

I have a table of awards -- each award needs to be tagged with one or more of the committees -- think table with model & views-- each committee has a page, and all awards associated with that committee will be listed on the committee's page, some projects will be on the page for more than one committee

So, I'm assuming the committee names are the tags

I'm looking at the built in tags creation form -- it wants a category

Given that the committees are always the same, whether for projects or awards, do I need one generic category for the form? Or do I need a category for projects and a category for awards -- each with the same set of committee tags?

If the tags only need to be entered once, I think this would reduce the potential for user error. But if I have to duplicate the tags once for the projects and again for the awards, I'm seeing little reward for the effort of conversion.

Can you tell me if I can use a single set of tags for both projects and awards?

Thanks

I've made an entry in the CMS in the stories module and wanted to display the title of each story added.

Here is my code within a static view file, which shows fuel_model giving an empty array, and an alternative method of retrieving my db information:

<?php $stories = fuel_model('stories'); //this shows an empty array foreach ($stories as $value){ echo $value['title']."<br />".$value['content']."<br /><br />"; } $stories2 = $this->stories_model->list_items(); //this works foreach ($stories2 as $value){ echo $value['title']."<br />".$value['content']."<br /><br />"; } echo "<br />"; echo "<br />"; var_dump($stories); //this shows an empty array echo "<br />"; var_dump($stories2); //this works ?>

I thought I should be using fuel_model() to get stuff from the module...
Please help!

I can understand that I have to create separate dashboard layout for each user type. But I was just wondering should I create a separate database table for this 3rd party user. Because they will not be using fuel CMS dashboard. I will create a saperate dashboard for them.

Another question is how fuel handles sessions for those users because I want to make sure it will work exactly as any user dashboard.

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