Toggle custom enum yes/no field in advanced module

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• admin

  June 2011 edited 9:54PM

  'active' and 'published' fields are given special treatment in FUEL in a couple areas. There currently isn't an easy way to replicate that functionality without changing a few things. That said, I'll try and point you in the right direction:
  
  1. The first is the list view table, where it allows you to toggle the item between a "yes" and "no" value. The toggle functionality in the list view is done by using a column formatter function to apply to that column. This is done around line 272 of the fuel/modules/fuel/controller/module.php controller. There is also some corresponding javascript in fuel/modules/assets/js/fuel/controller/BaseFuelController.js file on the tableCallback method around line 916.
  
  2. The second is that in the form view, there is a button in the top button bar, that allows you to toggle between the to states. You can control what buttons appear in your module by changing the "item_actions" module configuration parameter in your fuel/application/config/MY_fuel_modules.php. In your case, you would need to create an "others" which is somewhat explained here:
  http://www.getfuelcms.com/user_guide/modules/simple
  
  3. The third, is that in the base_model_module, the model that most model's inherit from, there is a _common_query() method that will automatically exclude those values with a published or active state of "no" are excluded from the query results when viewing the live site. You could duplicate that functionality in your models _common_query() method (be sure to call the parent::_common_query() in your model)
  
  Hope this helps.
• GuyWillett

  December 2012 edited December 2012

  I wanted to have the ajax-toggle between yes/no on the list view in the fuel admin (i.e. point 1 of 'admin's answer) for my 'featured_product' field of my Products_model simple module. To my joy, after a little looking at the code, all I needed to do was add :
  public $boolean_fields = array('featured_product');
  
  to my simple modules model class (e.g.application/models/Products_model, in my case)
  And this gave me the desired functionality on Fuel 1.0 beta.
  
  Great stuff!
  Thanks
  Guy
• admin

  December 2012 edited 9:54PM

  Yes... boolean fields have been added to 1.0 to distinguish between tinyint fields and a tinyint field that is actually an enum of 1,0.