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setContent() vs $entry->getContent()->foo
You should be using setContentFromPost() rather than setContent(), so that field types have a chance to prep the values that you are passing in.
See “What is getContent() / the ContentModel, and how ...
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Tech Support-Provider for Craft CMS
This is Leslie, I'm the Chief Customer Officer for Craft CMS. I'm not sure I can help, but I'd like to know more. Specifically I'm not sure I can source a dev shop in Germany, but I may be able to get ...
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How to tell if user exists
Something like this should work:
public function add($user)
{
$existingUser = craft()->users->getUserByUsernameOrEmail($user->username);
if ($existingUser)
{
// They ...
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setContent() vs $entry->getContent()->foo
I am just iterating on the previous answer to attempt to explain why this is happening. If you take a look at BaseElementModel.php at the setContent() method. You'll see that the core code is doing ...
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Service not defined
Looks like a casing issue to me. You should be calling:
craft()->campaignReports_campaignMonitor->getSettings();
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setContent() vs $entry->getContent()->foo
Have you tried using that form of setting with this method instead?
$entry->setContentFromPost(['foo' => 'bar', 'xyz' => '123']);
There's also this method:
$entry->getContent()->...
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Plugin Settings: Attribute Types, and how to receive
As far as accessing the value of the setting, try:
$plugin = craft()->plugins->getPlugin('pluginHandle');
$plugin->getSettings()->getAttribute('pluginSettings1');
If you need to access ...
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How to catch errors in a service and return to a controller?
There are several ways you could go about this.
One that I tend to prefer is to go ahead and have your controller grab whatever data it needs from POST and populate a Model with it.
That model is ...
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How do I call a service from my controller in a plugin?
Try it with a lowercase f in the middle...
craft()->fulcrumDonation_fulcrumCyberSource->exampleService();
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Craft 3: how to call methods in another plugin's service?
Assuming Plugin1 is their main plugin class file name, you could do:
\fully\qualified\namespace\Plugin1::getInstance()->myService->myMethod();
In order for this to work:
Craft must be ...
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Craft 3: How to get Volume by handle?
As of this commit, there is a Craft::$app->getVolumes()->getVolumeByHandle($handle) method you can call.
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Using Services to get all the Categories related to an Entry?
If you have an EntryModel and know the category field's handle, you don't really need a service:
$categories = $entry->categoryFieldHandle;
In other cases, you can construct an ...
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saveEntry() not firing
Something on the $entryToSave EntryModel is failing validation. If you
echo out implode(', ', $entryToSave()->getAllErrors());, then you'll see what those errors are and you can correct them.
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MVC - Should these be seperate controllers/models etc
Well, it looks like Sprout Forms itself prefers separate services for everything (they'd be some big services if they weren't,) but Craft does bundle closely-related things together sometimes - ...
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Allow anonymous submission on a custom element type?
Ok, so I finally figured it out. The trick was using the following two methods:
assembleLayoutFromPost()
setContentFromPost('fields')
The controller now looks like this:
public function ...
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Whats the best way to save a new entry in my plugin?
You can use the FrontEnd Entry Form for this. If you want to allow guests (non-registered users) to submit the form, you need to use the Guest Entries plugin.
Both methods will set "publishing date, ...
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Is it possible to access a Craft service directly from a Twig template?
The methods check if either ImageMagick and/or GD are installed and have been compiled with support for the respective format. If they return true, you can create transforms using these formats safely....
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Populate a record with a model?
Yii's setAttributes method is probably a better way to do this than the populateRecords method, as by default assignments will only be made to safe attributes.
See this wiki article, Understanding "...
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Populate a record with a model?
Yii does have the equivalent populateRecord and populateRecords on CActiveRecord.
However, on both the populateModel(s) and populateRecord(s) methods, you should be very cautious of blindly mass-...
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How can I use a session consistently in a service and variable?
I suspect you're getting different session IDs because you're creating a new instance of HttpSessionService (which ultimately is a wrapper for PHP's session handling).
What you should be doing is ...
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Error when calling methods between two services (triggered by init)
Your service’s init() function gets called immediately after it is loaded – and before Yii has had a chance to remember that craft()->myPlugin should return the service instance.
Take a look at ...
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Using services/records etc in migrations
Are there technical reasons for this recommendation, or is it something you'd just rather not support?
It's more along the lines of it's something you're not going to want to support.
The problem is ...
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Issues with Twig template includes when rendering from a service called from a CP-triggered event
Not 100% sure what is going wrong here, but here is what I would do to debug this on my end:
Simply output the current path the template parser is using in the controller and event handler to see the ...
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Craft plugin services in subfolders
Craft will only look in the immediate pluginHandle/services folder when auto-loading and registering a plugin's service files.
If you wanted to support services in subfolders (i.e. pluginhandle/...
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Need a way to connect to a webservice
Craft 2.x includes Guzzle 3 natively, so you could write a Craft plugin that uses it to consume your web service.
There are plenty of examples in the Guzzle 3 docs on how to do that (as well as in ...
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Listen to onSetStatus event
As you've discovered, you should be using the more generic elements.onBeforePerformAction or elements.onPerformAction events. They get fired when any action takes place and you can check their action ...
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Migrating Server - Craft isn't installed yet
Have you tried running ./craft setup to double check if your setup is correct?
If ./craft setup completes successfully ./craft should find the existing installation and complete any required setup.
...
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Changing asset of entry's assetfield via entries.onBeforeSaveEntry
After taking a look again, it turned out to simply be an issue with the scope of the array and a therefore empty array as a result. Works as expected now.
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Loading dynamically-named classes in a plugin's service
Rather than assuming that the providers will live in a specific location, I'd be inclined to implement a custom hook, which allows third party plugins to register a new provider.
This also allows ...
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How to handle entry save in plugin when entryId is not set?
Had to browse through your plugin repo for a bit to try and wrap my head around what's going on, but I think you have the problem nailed down in that the issue is this: https://github.com/iNalgiev/...
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