XF 2.0 How to create a new page for each entity?

[Matt C.]

Could someone explain to me how to create a new page for each entity?

Thank you.

 

[S Thomas]

Can you elaborate in which context you're working? Page and entity?

 

[Matt C.]

Can you elaborate in which context you're working? Page and entity?

So my add-on retrieves content from a JSON file and saves that content to an entity and then displays each one on add-on's index page (/dev-tracker. Each entity has its own unique 8 character string ID.

I want each intity to have a page and the URL structure would be after the add-on's URL. /dev-tracker/entry/absjwusu for example

 

[S Thomas]

Look at how Forum controller handles this. The index page takes unique IDs and reroutes them to the appropriate controller action.

 

[Matt C.]

Could someone assist me with how to use $params correctly?

If I use this piece of code in the actionEntry, it works fine and retrieves the requested entry.

$testEntry = $entryRepo->findEntry()->where('entry_id', 'bdkwgnna')->fetch();

But if I put this code in the actionEntry, it won't work.

$testEntry = $entryRepo->findEntry()->where('entry_id', $params->entry_id)->fetch();

Is this the correct usage of $params?

Here is the actionEntry function in my public controller.

public function actionEntry(ParameterBag $params)
{
    $entry = $this->assertEntryExists($params->entry_id);

    $entryRepo = $this->getEntryRepo();
    $testEntry = $entryRepo->findEntry()->where('entry_id', $params->entry_id)->fetch();

    $this->assertCanonicalUrl($this->buildLink('dev-tracker', $params->entry_id));

    $viewParams = [
        'entry' => $entry,
        'testEntry' => $testEntry
    ];

    return $this->view('AH\DevTracker:Entry\View', 'ah_dev_tracker_entry_view', $viewParams);
}

Thank you.

 

[S Thomas]

What is your route and what is your url you call? The code itself does not look wrong.

 

[Matt C.]

What is your route and what is your url you call? The code itself does not look wrong.

I'm using /dev-tracker/entry.bdkwgnna

 

[S Thomas]

Is entry.bdkwgnna mapped to entity_id? You could add
'id' => $params->entry_id to your viewParams and output them in the template to see if the id is wrong.

 

[Matt C.]

Is entry.bdkwgnna mapped to entity_id? You could add
'id' => $params->entry_id to your viewParams and output them in the template to see if the id is wrong.

I just did that and it returned null. How do I map it?

 

[S Thomas]

Well, that's why I asked what your route is. There is no action defined, so I assume your actionIndex routes to actionEntry - but how exactly does your route look like (route format)?

 

[Matt C.]

This is what it looks like:

 

[S Thomas]

I'm using /dev-tracker/entry.bdkwgnna

Have you tried /dev-tracker/entry/bdkwgnna/ ?

 

[Matt C.]

Have you tried /dev-tracker/entry/bdkwgnna/ ?

Yes, I have.

 

[S Thomas]

Either remove action prefix "Entry" and add entry to the and of the url
/dev-tracker/entry/bdkwgnna/entry

or rename your function to actionEntryIndex (no more changes needed)

or create a reroute to actionEntry in your actionIndex if route contains "/entry/". (that doesnt work that way)

I would rethink the route format.

Edit2: nvm i tried it myself, it works as you defined your routes. There's probably somewhere else a problem, although you could try the first thingy.

 

[S Thomas]

Got em. You have str:<entry_id>, but it's :str<entry_id>

 

[Matt C.]

Got em. You have str:<entry_id>, but it's :str<entry_id>

Thank you, but that didn't work either.

 

[S Thomas]

What error with which url do you get now?

 

[Matt C.]

I'm trying to do this again:

This is my route:


The "id" is the id of the entry in the database. The "entry_id" is the id of the entry that came from the JSON url. Each entry in the JSON has it's own id like "azpzodja."

If I go to http://localhost/index.php?dev-tracker/azpzodja.440, then it brings me to the index.

I have the view action in the public controller:

public function actionView(ParameterBag $params)
{
    $entry = $this->assertEntryExists($params->id);

    $viewParams = [
        'entry' => $entry
    ];

    return $this->view('AH\DevTracker:DevTracker\View', 'ah_dev_tracker_view', $viewParams);
}

Thank you to anyone who can help

 

[XDinc]

Have you tried sub-name/:int<entry_id>/ ?

 

[Matt C.]

Have you tried sub-name/:int<entry_id>/ ?

If I do that then, I get the following error:

The requested page could not be found. (Code: invalid_action, controller: AH\DevTracker:DevTracker, action: Azpzodja)