on_before_save/validate additional field value

sarosoco

Hi,

I have a field "password" in my model, but I dont' want to show it in the form editing in the admin area, so changed this method:

function form_fields($values = array())
{

$fields = parent::form_fields();

// Add new field to new passord
$fields['password']['type'] = 'hidden';
$fields['new_password']['order'] = 3;
$fields['new_password']['value'] = '';

return $fields;
}

So, now it should hide 'password' field, and create new field 'new_password'. And this works great. But I need to save value from 'new_password' to 'password' field, and I use functions on_before_save/validate.

function on_before_save($values)
{
$values['password'] = $values['new_password'];
return $values;
}

The problem is, there is no 'new_password' in variable $values, only 'password', so I got error "Unknown variable ''new_password".

The same situation with on_before_validation().
Only on_after_post() variable $values has "new_password", but this function can't change date before save.

Please, help me with this issue. Thanks.

admin

You can access that value through the "normalized_save_data" property of the model. This is the data that get's passed to the model to save before it get's cleaned:
function on_before_save($values) { if (isset($this->normalized_save_data['new_password'])) { $values['password'] = $this->normalized_save_data['new_password']; } return $values; }