It appears that something like:
$event = new Event();
$allEvents = $event->find();
will work, is this supported, or does the framework do some biolerplate setup?
You’ll want to use the load_model() or load_models() methods for this; here’s how to use it:
http://wpmvc.org/documentation/91/load_model/
http://wpmvc.org/documentation/92/load_models/
(Sorry, I had somehow overlooked including these in the documentation, but they’re in there now.)
I’m trying to have one model’s admin page show field values from an associated model. Just a column that converts the id to the correct name from the associated table. Using the events-calendar-example as a reference did not make it obvious how to do this “simple” task. I didn’t find any direct means to reference the associated table’s fields in the default_fields list. Instead, I had to create an access function referenced via value_method that just dereferences the object to pull out the correct name field from the associated table’s object reference.
It would be great if there were a direct way to refer to the associated table’s fields in the default list. Maybe something like ‘Venue.name’ or ‘venues.name’.
@summergrand
I’m looking for something similar… Could you share the fix you made?
@summergrand
value_method it is for me too!
Apparently the function that displays admin table cells goes like this:
public function admin_table_cell($controller, $object, $column) {
if (!empty($column['value_method'])) {
$value = $controller->{$column['value_method']}($object);
} else {
$value = $object->$column['key'];
}
return '<td>'.$value.'</td>';
}
wp-content\plugins\wp-mvc\core\helpers\mvc_helper.php line 188
Doesn’t seem to include any processing of this kind 🙁
Here is a little patch that would allow to reference a sub object in the format ‘Venue.name’
wp-content\plugins\wp-mvc\core\helpers\mvc_helper.php line 188
public function admin_table_cell($controller, $object, $column) {
if (!empty($column['value_method'])) {
$value = $controller->{$column['value_method']}($object);
} else {
$subs = explode('.', $column['key']);
foreach ($subs as $sub)
$object = $object->$sub;
$value = $object;
}
return '<td>'.$value.'</td>';
}
You could also patch the header cell function line 171 for the name to display automatically:
public function admin_header_cell($label) {
return '<th scope="col" class="manage-column">'.MvcInflector::titleize(str_replace('.', ' ', $label)).'</th>';
}
