cc3 to cc5

L.s.
I found this piece of code for making a multiple selection from a database within CC3.1 It's from the greyhead book,
and goes in to the where box in cc3
But I dont know how to addapt it for CC5,
Can any body help??

<?php
// create the empty array
$where = array();
// check the text filter
$filter_text = JRequest::getString('filter_text', '', 'post');
if ( $filter_text ) {
$where[] = "( `title` LIKE '%$filter_text%'
OR `introtext` LIKE '%$filter_text%'
OR `fulltext` LIKE '%$filter_text%' )";
}
// check the catid filter
$filter_catid =& JRequest::getVar('filter_catid', array(), 'post', 'array');
if ( count($filter_catid) ) {
$filter = implode(', ', $filter_catid);
$where[] = " `catid` IN ($filter) ";
}
if ( count($where) ) {
$where = implode(' AND ', $where);
echo " WHERE $where ";
}
?>

Hi Meneer,

v5 is totally different, my suggestion is that you open the FAQs > CCv5 section and read the available v5 tutorials, most tasks became easier to accomplish and there are many more features.

Regards,
Max

Thanks Max,

After some searching, I found the solution.
I wrote a form in witch I select te search paramaters and acces them in my connection via:
$szoekdatum = JRequest::getVar('datepicker29'); using some php I create a specific seach string for my return array.
$scriteria = "vv.".$sdatum." = '1' OR vv.".$sdatum." = '2' "; // where vv is the model.
return array(":{$scriteria}");
Works fine,

But when I add a sorting to my listing, and use it the Jrequest returns an empty value, this shows from the debug-info
so I can load a connection-list, but not sort it

Any suggestions what I did wrong or have missed.
or perhaps there us an other way to pass data from a form to cc5

Regards,

Gerald

Hi Gerald,

If you are passing external vars then try to add their names to the "Stored fields" box under the front/admin listing area.

Regards,
Max

Hello Max,

Thanks for your swift responce,
unfortunatly, it didn't work,
The var I use comes from a form and loads fine the first time, but gets lost when I sort the list in both front and admin view.
I also tried handing the value over like this:

$szoekdat = JRequest::getVar('datepicker29');       //loads fine once
if ( $szoekdat[2] = "-") {                                            //checks against string format (dd-mm-yyyy)
         $_SESSION["zoekdatum"] = $szoekdat ;       //stores value if string is ok
} else {
          $szoekdat = $_SESSION["zoekdatum"];        //load old value if string not OK
}

but for some reason it won't save to the $_SESSION

would it be possible to load the var from an other database I link to the form I use, and if so how?

Thanks

Gerald

Hi MeneerKees,

The 'if' clause in your code looks as if it will always fail without unless the value is an array with a dash in the third element. I'm not at all sure that is correct.

Also I'm not sure that you can write directly to $_SESSION. The Joomla! code for this is

<?php
$session = JFactory::getSession();
$session->set('param_name', 'value');
?>

Bob

Hello Bob,

Thank you for your input.
I checked with a few echo statements, witch values were returned by the php and if, the if statement work. It did
I then replaced my session request with yours, it gave me the same result.

For some reason everything loads fine, but when I sort the list, al data in session and the form-array is lost.
Could that perhaps be some settings problem? (the particular user stays logged in fine, an should therefore have a session().

Perhaps I could load the variabels from an array since that is real permanent data and the primary data is obtained via a form and alraidy saved to a database for future reference.

I just dont know how to call a single value within my PHP.

Thanks,

Gerald,
(MeneerKees is just my nickname in Dutch),

Hello Bob,

Perhaps I could load the variabels from an😛 array (I ment database sorry) 😛 since that is real permanent data and the primary data is obtained via a form and alraidy saved to a database for future reference.

I just dont know how to call a single value within my PHP.

Thanks,

Gerald,
(MeneerKees is just my nickname in Dutch),

Hi,

Did you try to put the variable name in the "Stored fields" box as I suggested before ? if the parameter is called "datepicker29" then just put "datepicker29" inside that box

Regards,
Max

Hello,

Tried it , even made a new clean connextion, copied the bare essentiels, and put "datepicker29" in the stored fields box.
This only resulted in an error:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ']' in /home/id90804/public_html/libraries/cegcore/libs/arr.php(60) : eval()'d code on line 1

Regards,


Gerald