jamienk

Hm, this feature doesn't seem to be in version 2.2? So the sort order id "date modified" by default? And it can only be changed on a per-child basis?

Hi, From the PW admin, when I create a "new" child page, I'm first prompted to create a 'title' and 'name' before being sent to the fuller template. Can I by-pass this screen? Our "title" and "name" fields are auto-generated based on other field values, so it's a bit confusing to have to type something here... Thanks -Jamie

Solved! Need this: $page = $event->arguments[0]; in the calcMethod function. I suppose that line makes $page contain all the field data... Not sure I understand the $event thing?

I'd greatly appreciate any help in creating such a module. I need a field that gets populated with data parsed from another field. I actually have working code for the frontend, but I think I need it for the backend. I have this simplified code testcase in a successfully loaded module, but it doesn't seem to do anything. I have 2 fields: report_text (type textarea), and report_specialtext (type TextareaSpecial) -- it's meant to grab the contents of report_text, do a simple search and replace, and put the results in report_specialtext: <?php class FieldtypeTextareaSpecial extends FieldtypeTextarea { public static function getModuleInfo() { return array( 'title' => 'TextareaSpecial', 'version' => 100, 'summary' => 'Field that stores some text', ); } public function getSpecialtext($text) { $out=str_replace("search for this", "replace with this", $text); return $out; } public function init() { $this->pages->addHookBefore('save', $this, 'calcMethod'); } public function calcMethod($event) { $text=$page->report_text; $specialtext = FieldtypeTextareaSpecial::getSpecialtext($text); $page->report_specialtext = $specialtext; $this->message("Hello World! Special text {$specialtext}. Normal text: {$page->report_text}"); } } ?> Any help greatly appreciated!

Thanks. I thought "image" was some sort of built-in object -- I didn't realize it was a field with methods based on the "file" type

I've upgraded to PW 2.2 and some of my code has stopped working. I allow my authenticated users to upload pdfs, but I can no longer upload or get the path or url of the uploads. This used to work (edited code to only show the relevent part): $newpage = new Page(); $path=$newpage->images->path; $relpath=$newpage->images->url; Then I save the page with the correct fields filled in. Then I upload the file: $name = strtolower($sanitizer->name($_FILES['upload']['name'])); $file = $path . $name; if(move_uploaded_file($_FILES['upload']['tmp_name'], $file)) { // add it to the page $newpage->report_request->add($file); /// save the page $newpage->save(); } But now $path and $relpath don't return anything. I get the error "Notice: Trying to get property of non-object" which I think refers to images->path and images->url I've tried files->path and files->url (in some of the sample code from these forums I picked up that possibility), but that doesn't work either. How do I access the filesystem path and the url path, both to upload the file and to refer to it? Thank you, Jamie