Adding a file to Pagefiles and saving to Database

[ethanbeyer]

I'm kind of at a loss with this: I wrote a function inside one of my modules that saves files to a Page through the API. The Field is a FieldtypeFile.

$page = $this->storagePage;

$files = $page->pdfStorage_files;
$files->add($path);

return $page->save($files);

I can see that the file has been saved to the Page's directory, and if I dump $page->filesManager->getFiles(); , the file I add is present in the array.

But in the field_pdfstorage_files table in the database - no entry. Which also means that the file is not visible as a part of the pdfStorage_files field in the Admin Backend.

 

Is there a way to ensure that adding the file to the field saves it everywhere?

[Robin S]

The $field argument supplied to $page->save() must be a field name or field object. But in your example $files is neither of these (it will be a Pagefiles object).

[adrian]

Does this work?

$p = $this->storagePage;
$p->of(false);
$p->pdfStorage_files->add($path);
$p->save('pdfStorage_files');
return $p->pdfStorage_files;

Not sure if your problem is the missing $p->of(false) or trying to save the $files pagefile object instead of the "pdfStorage_files" field name.

PS - what @Robin S said

[ethanbeyer]

Thank you both! It looks like it was $p->of(false); .

I have next to no idea how the Output Formatting works. To the docs!!

 

All my best!!!