Extending the Account/Privacy screen

[CrispinP]

Hi folks,

I'm cleaning up some of the fields in one of my add-ons and want to move the various options to Privacy as their better suited there.

Using a template hook I added my new template underneath and it all looks ok. My problem is the saving of the data.

I have a hook into data writer which I use for doing other stuff when the user saves but this does not present me with the values passed from the page.

How / What / Where do I hook into something so that I can save the values my template has passed in when someone saves privacy settings?

Privacy:




Thanks
Crispin

 

[CrispinP]

Nobody?

 

[Chris D]

It requires some fairly hacky approaches.

You have to get the data from the inputs by extending the controller save action first, store those values somewhere and then set them in the data writer.

Here's one approach that's fairly common:

https://xenforo.com/community/threads/more-modular-code.29444/page-2#post-585291

 

[CrispinP]

Thanks Chris,


I ended up with what I think is a less hacky option.

I stuck to what I was doing and in the post-save method I in my data writer I did the following

        if (array_key_exists('crispin_usermap_privacy', $_POST)){
            $_input = new XenForo_Input($_POST);
   
            $settings = $_input->filter(array(
                'param1' => XenForo_Input::UINT,
                'param1' => XenForo_Input::STRING,
                etc
            ));

From there I can use the data writer option as normal.

C