Questions tagged [plugin-development]
Questions having to do with constructing plugins.
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Filter and sort commerce products based on matrix blocks
We have a website that uses Craft CMS v3.1.28 and Commerce v2.1.6.1. The below logic is implemented within a plugin and we're prepared to do custom implementations aka. prepared to go deep!
This ...
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How to run function after plugin installed?
How can I run a function when my plugin is installed? I tried SafeUp in migrations but it doesn't work.
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How to fire flash messages when using Event::on()?
I'm looking to hook into an Asset::EVENT_BEFORE_HANDLE_FILE event and toss up a JS flash error if it's above a certain file size. However, the registerJs() function never runs and I assume it's ...
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Get entries based on multiple fields in controller
I am trying to get the entries based on multiple fields.
Fields can be of type tags, checkbox, radio box, and number.
In my controller currently what I tried is.
$extrafilter will be like
Array
(
...
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Rename files uploaded to certain sources in Craft 3
I have an event written for Craft 2 which renames files, which are uploaded to certain sources, to have a 35 character random string, plus its original extension.
I am looking to update this for ...
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Loop through all created fields and get the field type
I want to show some input fields on frontend template form.
Type of input is dependent on the type of fields selected on the backend.
For example, if the text field is selected in the backend I ...
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How to order or filter entries by their author's custom field?
Is it possible to order and/or filter all entries from a section whose author has a custom field value that is set to "X"?
Below is the starting code.
in Twig:
{% set elementQuery = craft.entries()...
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Hooking Event After Record Save
I have a custom module that is receiving data from an external API. I need to save some of that data into a record and return a success response, so far all is good.
Along side this I want to set up ...
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Merge trashed element with existing one
Is there any way to merge trashed elements with an existing element? I'm creating a custom restore action so you can merge a trashed (commerce) Product with an existing one. The mergeElementsByIds ...
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How to hook into root controller to redirect any route based on some criteria?
We have a use case where if our user account has a certain flag that they are redirected to a specific page.
Is there a way to hook into the root controller or some sort of router mechanism such that ...
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Craft 3 Plugin Index No Template Found
I'm looking to have a basic index page for my plugin, yet I can't seem to get index.html working for my plugin. But when I head to site.local/admin/plugin it displays 404 Template Not Found
I have ...
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How to access controller method from a plugin script?
I have created a custom TwigParser which needs to execute some controller logic in a similar way to how CraftCMS's {% requirePermissionNode %} Twig parser does.
Their implementation accesses the ...
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Query element api (output) via plugin
Is there a way to fetch the content generated by the Element API via a plugin.
For example, if we have created an ingredients/<slug:{slug}>.json endpoint, can the data for a specific page (eg ...
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Changing some letters in entry's uri before save it
I need to replace some characters in my entry's URI because we have some letters which do not exist in English like "ş" or "ç". It is a problem for SEO and we have to change each time manually. I ...
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Category select field in custom plugin settings not saving
I am trying to show a list of categories on my plugin's settings page so an admin can select multiple categories.
I am doing this with a Craft form macro:
{{ forms.elementSelectField({
label: '...
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How do I correctly upload a new Asset from a temp file I generated from a service method?
Preamble
Craft 3.1.26
PHP 7.2.8 on Mamp Pro 5.1.1
I browsed to my storage/reports folder and made sure in Finder than full read/write privileges are granted.
What's goin on
I have a module with a ...
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Custom field value doesn't get saved
I have the following code:
$fieldHandle = 'contentLead';
$entryTitle = $event->element;
$entryQuery = \craft\elements\Entry::find();
$entries = $entryQuery->title($entryTitle)->limit(1);
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Change Dropdown Value via Module
I'm looking to change a dropdown field within an entry, then save it. I currently have a lightswitch which works perfectly, but now I need to change a dropdown field. I have the following for the ...
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How do you access craft()->runController variables within the action?
I have a plugin that runs
craft()->runController($actionUrl);
This runs the action Controller of a separate plugin. The actionUrl contains a variables array:
$actionUrl = UrlHelper::...
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Get all available fields in plugin setting page
I am trying to get all the fields created by admin in my custom plugin setting page.
As we can get entries , in same way can we have option to get the available fields.
{{ forms.elementSelectField({...
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Draft from front-end form with limited field set
I have a front-end form which sends a limited selection of the fields to the action entryRevisions/saveDraft (actually a custom plugin action, but in the it end up there). I expected it to take the ...
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What's the difference between `checkboxGroupField` and `checkboxSelectField` in Craft 3?
Short:
What exactly is the checkboxGroupField used for?
And why not just using the checkboxSelectField?
Long:
I am building a library that's gonna be required by a couple of my future Craft plugins ...
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Batch saving a custom field to multiple users via controller
I have to build a custom plugin for an internal user management system/data export that needs to be able to get triggered from the CP.
I basically have to sort a big amount of users (1500+) in a ...
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How can I search for entries with precision in my module?
I'm working on an autocomplete Vue component for one of my Craft projects. It's very simple at the moment, all I am trying to do is have my component send a search value from the user to a controller. ...
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How can I overwrite the search page within a plugin?
My first day with Craft.
I want to create a plugin that will provide a Product Query (collection, Craft Commerce) based on some 3rd party search (like Algolia).
How can I overwrite the route search?...
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Sprout plugin: Send information in AJAX success response
I'm using Sprout for registering to events, I want to be able to send a code in the AJAX response when EVENT_AFTER_SAVE occurs. At the moment, I get {success: true} back, but I want to be able to get {...
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Get transformed asset URL in controller of module, while using Eager Loading
I created a module, in my controller I want to return the entries with the assets in JSON format.
Here is my code.
File: In service class, I am getting the data.
public function getData($...
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Print to Console Inside Event
I created a CUSTOM PLUGIN and I have the following code:
Event::on(FOO::class, FOO::EVENT_NAMED_BAR, function(Event $e) {
$message = "Hello world";
// craft::error( $message );
// ...
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Define POST or GET for a route
Is there a way to define a route that can only receive POST data?
In Laravel you can do this:
Route::post('admin/content/{id}', 'ContentController@update');
Is there a way to do this with a Craft ...
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Get entries whose title has a keyword or related to a category's title
I am trying to get entries that either their title has the keyword or their category field title. I am getting them from my plugin, not twig.
I tried like this:
$keywordCategory= Category::find()->...
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Is it possible to use craft()->runController with variables in Craft 2
I'm trying to run a plugin 1 controller from plugin 2. I can get it to run and re-direct to plugin 1's controller but as it is not being run with posted variables I need to be able to tell plugin 1's ...
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How do I correctly send an external request to a module controller? runAction() is returning null
Craft 3.1.18
I have a simple controller VeteransController made using the updated Business Logic module. The purpose of this controller is to create a very simple endpoint for an external Vue ...
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How to cache a Guzzle Http request?
In my module I have the following:
$client = new Client(['base_uri' => myBaseUri]);
$response = $client->request('GET', myQueryString, [
'headers' => [
'Accept' => ...
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How to edit a date field in a plugin
So I want to edit date type filed on entry save, but I don't know how to format it. It times out on string and don't seem to accept DateTime objects either.
Event::on(
Elements::class,
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How do you save a new Entry to be enabled on 2+ Sites?
I've made a plugin that let's you import Entries from a CSV file and I'm working through adding localization (Sites) support to it, but I can't figure out the right way to enable an Entry for a second ...
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Custom Plugin for ZenDesk Tickets [closed]
I need all of the custom fields on an order submitted to ZenDesk to create a new ticket once the order is completed.
Once a ticket is created in ZenDesk, we will need the ticket number saved on a new ...
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Craft 3 Controller - Redirect with errors
I cant get this to work.
I'm doing a post to a controller action. From that action I'm doing a lot of validations, db insert, file uploads etc.
Coming from Laravel Im used to is doing like this: (...
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Creating multiple plan subscriptions
Versions:
- Craft CMS (3.1.21)
- Craft Commerce (2.1.2)
- Stripe for Craft Commerce (1.2.0)
Problem:
- My website offers user's ability to subscribe to several subscriptions at the same time. ...
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What's the most performant way to get reverse related entries within an Element Query?
What's the most performant way to get reverse related entries within an Element Query?
Here's a contrived example of this.
I have thousands of "book" entries and thousands of "collection" entries. I ...
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Get HTML of rendered template inside module
I'm getting started with plugin/module development. I want to get the template file, pass some variables to it, and get rendered HTML of that template into a string variable.
How do I do that?
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Custom plugin: Creating new fields will delete the field group they're being created in
I have a simple plugin which reads in a CSV file, and based on the first row of data will create a new field group, and then create fields within that group. The first time I run it everything goes ...
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Possible to reflect changes to a plugin's composer.json without uninstall/reinstall?
When working on a plugin recently, I decided to add a CP section:
composer.json
{
...
"extra":
...
"hasCpSection": true
...
}
The only way that I was able to have this ...
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My plugin settings page is never loaded
I have been staring at this all morning, comparing to other plugins online and cannot see why my plugin settings page never registers. I have verified the actual settings model is populated, but ...
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Updating private repo plugins from admin?
Is it possible to update private repo plugins from the admin at all? Would love that functionality, especially for smaller projects that are installed where there's no CLI access.
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How to set stability version in plugins?
I've made a plugin, that I'm now trying to include in a live project, but when I try to install it via the plugin installer, I get a 500 error, and if I try to include it using composer, I get the ...
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Order Adjusters in Commerce 2
In Craft Commerce 1, there is documentation on how to re-order adjustments that do similar things.
https://docs.craftcms.com/commerce/v1/adjusters.html#ordering-adjustments
But I don't see any ...
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Custom Element Reference Tags
I have created a custom element type and cant get the reference tags to parse correctly, I've set the refHandle and the action to copy reference tag which seems to be correct format when I copy a ...
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How to pragmatically set registered user status to pending and then manually send activation email
I have 2 front end registration forms. One for normal users and one for admins. In each form I have a hidden input with a group value like so:
<input type="hidden" name="group" value="ypo">
In ...
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Ajax Post to Plugin Controller
I have been stuck on trying to make an ajax call to a custom plugin controller in Craft 2 for a few days after trying everything from following the documentation for Craft 2 as well as looking up ...
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Plugin not updating in the plugin store from changelog updates
I have a custom plugin registered with id.craftcms.com.
The plugin store currently sees it at as 2.0.0, but I have since updated the plugin to 2.0.1 (and subsequently tried to force a silent 2.0.2 ...
