Joomla Non profit school site

Hello every one🙂
I am trying to develop a Pledge area on my sons school website which is non profit which is in Joomla

Ok we have a program each year which is a Golf tournament each Golfer goes out and gets pledges what they want is to have the Golfers login and track there own pledges but have a admin able to sign in and see all pledges.

i have created a table in the Joomla data base called jos_pledges
fields ==
id , firstname , lastname , street , city, state , phone , email , pledgeamount , userid
the userid -field is the person that is loged in createing the pledge ??
I am not a data base programer and new to alot of this

am i on the right path or way Off ??? please help

Hi r2ks,

Looks good to me

Bob

Bob,
Thank you for responding i have read some of the stuff on here from you. Great stuff !

I hope this make since what i am going to write.
say i login and i go to the area to in put my pledge info how would i get the user id field populated with the logged in user.

does joomla use $session or $cookie to trap the logged in user ??
so i login goto the form fill in all the pledge info hit submit it populates the data base i know i would have to create a hidden field and populate it with the $session varible ??? i think
Thanks dan

Hi dan,

The current user is always available as a user object:

<?php
$user =& JFactory::getUser();
echo $user->id;
echo $user->name;
. . .
?>

That's by far the easiest way of accessing it.

Bob

PS It is also in the session but why bother.

lol i just found the same info🙂 thanks so much
i tried to create a new artical and place the code in it does not give the ability for php code ???

Hi dan,

No, normal Joomla articles do not take PHP - just HTML/CSS. Mostly that's for security reasons.

Bob

Bob,
this is interesting i noticed that i can use PhP in chrono forms,
Again thanks for your Help i am working on that form Page right know.
Dan