Personalised Editor Screens

Hi Perch,

I've attached a sample custom "Add Record" form. Creating front-end edit forms takes some extra work. Here's some additional steps for what you need to do:
- install "Website Membership"
- create a record list page
- require users to login to see the page with <?php if (!$CURRENT_USER) { websiteLogin_redirectToLogin(); } ?>
- filter list to show only record users own with: 'where' => mysql_where(array('createdByUserNum' => $CURRENT_USER['num'])),
- link each record to an edit page passing the num, eg: record-edit.php?num=$num
- use the add page as a template for the edit page
- require users to login to see the page with <?php if (!$CURRENT_USER) { websiteLogin_redirectToLogin(); } ?>
- only load records if the user owns them with 'where' => mysql_where(array('createdByUserNum' => $CURRENT_USER['num'], 'num' => $_REQUEST['num'])),
- on save, use update, not insert to modify existing record.

Hope that helps!

Hi, Dave -

This is brilliant. Just what I was hoping for. There are just two questions:

1) How do we add an "Upload" button?

2) Would it be possible to add the code of the addForm page to the bottom of an exisiting List page? In effect, could the user add a record to the page they are looking at?

(NB: I am trying to create a demo for a group of seniors and would like them to be able to see how easy it is to update their own pages. Ficking back and forth between pages will seem too complex for them. This has to be real Janet & John stuff!)

:0)

Perch

Hi Perch,

Adding uploads through a form outside of CMSB gets a little more tricky, but in it's most simple implementation the attached should work.

I'm not quite sure what you're asking for in point 2 but it sounds like you want to be able to add the 'editor' to the bottom of the page being edited OR you want to add another post the a page, a la a blog. In either case it can be done but it's a bit beyond the scope of the forum and would really require consulting time.

Let me know if this helps,

Tom



Thanks,

Tom

Hi, Tom -

This is an amazing bit of work! Thanks.

Unfortunately I'm receiveing an error and I don't know why?

Upload Error: <form> tag must have enctype="multipart/form-data"

Can you help?

Perch

Hi Perch,

That error message means that the form wasn't submitted with the correct encoding type (it's an error check to make sure that the uploads won't be encoded and corrupted).

To make sure that the form works properly, check that the following line exists (it was line 79 in my uploadForm script):
<form method="post" name="uploadForm" action="?preSaveTempId=<?php echo $preSaveTempId ?>" enctype="multipart/form-data">

Let me know if this helps,

Tom

Hi Jerry,

Do you mean having the info fields be drop downs that are populated by other parts of the database? If so, this is possible, but would require a fair amount of customization. Please email consulting@interactivetools.com if you would like to go over some options.

Thanks,