Hello Process Module pass argument to function

[Spica]

<dt><a href='./something/'>Do Something</a></dt>
<dd>Runs the executeSomething() function.</dd>

How to pass some argument to the executeSomething() function?

Edited October 9, 2015 by LostKobrakai
Moved to module development

[Martijn Geerts]

The only way  see is with a get variable or put variables in a session.

[LostKobrakai]

Or a hidden form on the page, that does get submitted to the target page with some post data. But that would make the data accessable/editable to users.

[Spica]

Hm. It seems to be not that easy. Mabey I better explain my target.

A user gets a generatet pagelist. He is ment to create a childepage. Therefore each listed page gets a link. But title and name should be given by the system and not by the user. So I cannot use the add page routine by url. Name and title should include the parent_id (which is the one slected in the list) and userid. These I originaly wanted to pass as arguments to my executefunction.

I think I cannot use a $input->get variable in that case. A $input-post variable would work, but only if I generate a lot of forms. But I would run into manipulation problems as LostKobrakai mention it is accessable/editable.

[LostKobrakai]

You need at least some way to identify which list item was clicked and you've only the get or post data option in this case. There's no way around that. As soon as you know that you can just create the page via the api and redirect to the page edit screen for the id of the new page. 

[Spica]

Ok. No way around this.

Thanks.

Btw, is it possible to give e.g. title and name with page/add/…

[LostKobrakai]

You can, but it's really not much work to create the page on your own and not rely on any other party module. 

[Spica]

Yes, I mostly are finished with it.

Just wondered as I 've tried a &title=somewhat somewhen before.

[Martijn Geerts]

What about session?

[Spica]

You mean storing the variables in the session? Same problem here: how to execute/store variable with at least the id as argument.

[gunter]

	

public function ___executeSomething() {
		$this->headline('This is something!'); 
		$this->breadcrumb('../', 'Hello'); 

		$url_parameter=wire("input")->urlSegment2;

wire("input")->urlSegment2 worked for me for receiving the url data for an url like .....ModuleName/Something/UrlParameter

but in my case I had problems to encode/decode my url parameter properly, because urlencode() and base64_encode() did not work properly,

so if you know a function to do this, I would be happy..