Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Contao 2.x Hooks Tutorial (processFormData)

Contao Hooks are functions that get triggered on certain events. For a list of available hooks take a look at the Contao Documentation.

Here is a quick tutorial on how to setup a hook for processing form data entered by members in your website.

Sunday, April 7, 2013

Contao 3 – redirect to a frontend url from page alias

<?php

class MyModule extends \Module {


protected function compile() {

$page_alias = 'my-page-alias';
$arrPage = \PageModel::findPublishedByIdOrAlias($page_alias)->current()->row();

$strUrl = $this->generateFrontendUrl($arrPage, '/additionalquerystring/vars');

$this->redirect($strUrl);



}

}

Friday, April 5, 2013

Contao 3 – Generate a form inside a custom template

 

<?php

/**
* STEP #1 (just in case you want to get the form by its alias)
* get the form id from its alias
* if you have the form id you can skip to step #2
*/
$objModel = \FormModel::findByAlias($form_alias);
$form_id = $objModel->id;


/**
* STEP #2
* generate the configuration object
**/

$objContent = new stdClass();
$objContent->form = $form_id;

/**
* STEP #3
* generate the form object
**/
$objForm = new \Form($objContent);
?>


<?php
/**
* STEP #4
* display the Form
**/
?>
<?php echo $objForm->generate(); ?>