Creating an Express Object Form

Developing with Concrete
1

Hi, I’m trying to build an Express Object Form in a single page controller. This code works:

$form = $object->buildForm(‘Form’);
$form->addFieldset(‘Basics’)
->addAttributeKeyControl(‘page_name’)
->addAttributeKeyControl(‘parent_page_path’);
$form->save();

So I expected I could do this as well:

$form = $object->buildForm(‘Form’);
$form->addFieldset(‘Basics’);
$form->addAttributeKeyControl(‘page_name’);
$form->addAttributeKeyControl(‘parent_page_path’);
$form->save();

but that bombs out with a error: error":{“type”:“Error”,“message”:“Call to undefined method Concrete\Core\Express\ObjectBuilder\FormBuilder::addAttributeKeyControl()”,“code”:0,“file”:

What I had be hoping to do was add the attribute control keys in a foreach, something like:

$form = $object->buildForm(‘Form’);
$form->addFieldset(‘Basics’);
foreach($handles as $handle){
$form->addAttributeKeyControl($handle);
}
$form->save();

I’ve been coming back to this problem for over a year now and would like to finally get it figured out as I am upgrading all my packages for Concrete 9.cx and PHP 8x. If anyone can point me in the right direction it would really be appreciated.

Thanks

2

Hmm let me take a look at this and I’ll get back with you.

3

Thanks Evan, I’m really stuck on this one.

4

buildForm returns an instance of the Concrete\Core\Express\ObjectBuilder\FormBuilder class, but addFieldSet actually returns an instance of the Concrete\Core\Express\ObjectBuilder\FieldsetBuilder class. But in your second example you’re running addAttributeKeyControl on the FormBuilder class instead of the FieldsetBuilder class.

Does something like this work?

$form = $object->buildForm(‘Form’);
$fieldset = $form->addFieldset(‘Basics’);
foreach ($handles as $handle) {
    $fieldset->addAttributeKeyControl($handle);
}
$form->save();
5

Works perfect Andrew, thanks so much!

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6

Awesome, glad to hear it!

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