PHP code example of fiedsch / contao-jsonwidget

    
        
<?php
require_once('vendor/autoload.php');

/* Start to develop here. Best regards https://php-download.com/ */

    

fiedsch / contao-jsonwidget example snippets

$GLOBALS['TL_DCA']['tl_member']['fields']['json_data'] = [
   'inputType' => 'jsonWidget',
   'label'     => &$GLOBALS['TL_LANG']['tl_member']['json_data'],
   'eval'      => ['tl_class' => 'long', 'decodeEntities' => true], 
   'sql'       => "blob NULL",
 ];
 
 // Add json_data to $GLOBALS['TL_DCA']['tl_member']['palettes']['default'] 
 // where ever you like
 

// models/ExtendedMemberModel.php
namespace Contao;

use Fiedsch\JsonWidgetBundle\Traits\JsonGetterSetterTrait;

class ExtendedMemberModel extends MemberModel
{
    // let __set() and __get() take care of the JSON or YAML data (both at the same time will not work!)
    use JsonGetterSetterTrait;
    // or (see above!)
    use YamlGetterSetterTrait;

  /**
    * The column name we selected for the `jsonWidget` in the example above
    * @var string
    */
    protected static $strJsonColumn = 'my_json_data_column';
    
    /**
      * Same thing for the `yamlWidget`
      * @var string
      */
    protected static $strYamlColumn = 'my_yaml_data_column';

}

// config/config.php
$GLOBALS['TL_MODELS']['tl_member'] = 'Contao\ExtendedMemberModel';

$member = \ExtendedMemberModel::findById(42);

// access fields columns created by contao's default DCA
printf("read member %s %s\n", $member->firstname, $member->lastname);

// access a field stored in our JSON data column
printf("transparently accessing a field from the JSON data ... '%s'\n", $member->whatever);

// set values and store in database
$member->a_key_for_a_scalar_value = "fourtytwo";
$member->key_for_an_array = ['an','array','containing','some','strings'];
$member->save(); // Note that saving will lose comments in your YAML-data 
                 // as Symfony\Component\Yaml\Yaml will not save them 

'eval' => [ /* ... , */ 'rte'=>'ace|yaml'],

# In this example we assume $strJsonColumn = 'json_data';
$data = [ 'foo' => 1, 'bar' => 'baz ];
$model->json_data = $data; # will throw an exception

$data = [ 'foo' => 1, 'bar' => 'baz ];
$model->setJsonColumnData(array $data);
# or
# $model->setYamlColumnData(array $data);