Auto update categories in simple modules

kapil

Hello,

I am using simple modules method for products in my websites. The products are related to categories and subcategories. How do i make it so that in the module, edit page( i.e when we click the edit button inside the listing, in admin side ), when i select category, the subcategory list gets autoupdated to list of subcategories inside that particular category only.

hope you understood it.

Thank you
Kapil

admin

That sounds like you'll need to use Javascript to AJAX in a new list based on the currently selected category. A simple module allows you to directly call methods via ajax that map to methods on your model. The following links help explain that a little better.
http://www.getfuelcms.com/forums/discussion/comment/2138/#Comment_2138
http://www.getfuelcms.com/forums/discussion/comment/3117/#Comment_3117

You can add a javascript file to your simple module by using the "js" parameter in your module config.

Lastly, the 1.0 beta branch we are currently working on has additional support for using Javascript to make it easier in your form fields. There is a section in the 1.0 user guide called Javascript which explains it a little better:
https://github.com/daylightstudio/FUEL-CMS/tree/1.0
https://github.com/daylightstudio/FUEL-CMS-User-Guide-Module

kapil

thanks, i will check it out, and yea I was trying to figure out how the pages module was updating the fields when a different layout is selected, do they use ajax too?

admin

Yes. There is a PageController.js file that is used for that page and there is a method on the pages controller it calls.