How do I wire my form action to my controller action?

Question

I'm writing my first Craft CMS plugin.

I have the following tag in my form:

<input type="hidden" name="action" value="clientnameDonation/donateForm/donate">

And then I have the following controller code to handle the action:

namespace Craft;

class ClientnameDonation_DonateFormController extends BaseController
{
    protected $allowAnonymous = array('actionDonate',
        );

    public function actionDonate()
    {
        // stuff
    }
}

When I try to submit the form, I get the following error:

Unable to resolve the request "clientnameDonation/donateForm/donate"

Is there a piece I'm missing, or is there a casing error somewhere?

I also tried just using a raw action URL like this:

http://URL/index.php?p=actions/clientnameDonation/donateForm/donate

I get the same routing error.

Answer 1

You may need to install your Plugin through the control panel. To do this go to 'Settings>Plugins' and if you've set it up correctly then you should see your Plugin name in the list.

Simply click "Install" and then your plugins file will be accessible from your templates.

Answer 2

I had the plugin set up correctly but I didn't go into the administration menu and install the plugin via the GUI.