Help with building a quote calculator

[JackGoa]

i now tried entering all that code in the plugin code area and the result is, drum rooooolll....... redirection to home page.

 

[rackem]

i now tried entering all that code in the plugin code area and the result is, drum rooooolll....... redirection to home page.

What code exactly?

And my result is a blank page. If I look at the source of the blank page, the <br /> tags are there but nothing else.
I also still don't understand how to get my result printed out in the site template and not just a blank page.

Did you read my comments on this in the previous post?

 

[JackGoa]

Hi rackem. Thanks for your patience with me!

Check my post right before that last one. I entered the code exactly as I have it there. And yes I followed your instruction to the T.

 

[Sophist]

Do you have Joomla error reporting set to Maximum? If so, you should have seen uninitialised variable notices. Doing this will help you a lot!!

 

[JackGoa]

Thanks Sophist I'll try that. I really don't know what to do anymore. Thinking of just hiring someone to write me a script. Fabrik is just so complicated.

 

[Sophist]

Hmmm - Fabrik is nowhere near as complicated as doing this without Fabrik. Creating a database application in any tool needs some understanding.

But if you want to hire someone, I would recommend hiring Rob or Hugh - they are experts in Fabrik and could probably have this up and running for you in no time.

S

 

[JackGoa]

The thing is, I'm just battling so much with this seemingly simple task. I could have probably written a script in the time I've been battling to figure out how the get my form elements into variables. I haven't even started yet with trying to query the database.

I've tried to get hold of rob but haven't received any feedback.

 

[troester]

This forum is for Subscribers on the Free plan. Members of staff will respond on a best effort basis, which will depend on the current Subscriber Support load. We also encourage community self-help in this forum, so if you can help someone, please do so! Good karma up for grabs.

I don't think Rob or Hugh have free time at the moment to support the community forum (beside of bug reports).

 

[JackGoa]

Thanks troester. Would some please just mond telling me how do I get the information a user enters in a form? This form does not update the database.
I'm using the php plugin and I have a custom script file. Nothing I've done as per my previous posts so far has worked. I've also tried various things as laid out in the wiki.
I simply cannot get the info entered in the form returned. I need to use that info to do a calculation from info I have in a table in the database and then print all the results out in a table.

I just need to get the info from the form into variables that I can use! Please help me

 

[troester]

The form's data is stored as an array and can be accessed with
...
$formModel->formData // for onAfterProcess - use short element names: 'element' - no table name

So did you try
$childdependents = $formModel->formData['nr_child_dependents'];
echo $childdependents . '<br />';
exit;

 

[JackGoa]

I tried various versions of it from that direction in the wiki. Not sure if I tried it your way though. I'm almost positive there's and underscore in front of formdata in that example in the wiki?

 

[troester]

Yes, it's
$childdependents = $formModel->_formData['nr_child_dependents'];

 

[JackGoa]

I did try that but ended up getting either a blank page or redirected to home page. But I had the 3 underscores in front of the element name... should I leave them out?

 

[troester]

It depends on your "Process script" setting:
"onBeforeStore" you need full element names (i.e.[' table___element'], or in your case ['___element'])
"after Data stored" you need short element names ['element']

 

[JackGoa]

I'm using onAfterProcess and I'm not storing the data entered so there's no table name... :/

 

[troester]

I think
$childdependents = $formModel->_formData['nr_child_dependents'];
(I didn't try with a search form not storing the data but short element name" is without table and without ___)

 

[JackGoa]

Ok cool. Thanks so much for the advice troester. I'll only be able to get to this on Monday though. Will get back to you with feedback!

 

[JackGoa]

oi vey, still no luck!

this is the code in my script file (nothing in the plugin code area)

<?php
 
$childdependents = $formModel->_formData['nr_child_dependents'];
$adultdependents = $formModel->_formData['nr_adult_dependents'];
$grossSalary = $formModel->_formdata['gross_salary'];
 
echo $childdependents . '<br />';
echo $adultdependents . '<br />';
echo $grossSalary;
exit;
 
?>

When I submit that form, I get redirected to my home page with no results. (also set error reporting to maximum)

I also tried without using a script file and just entered the code in the plugin code area (without PHP tags), same result.

have I not maybe come across a bug here?

 

[troester]

What is your "Process script" setting in the php plugin?

 

[JackGoa]

onAfterProcess