Problem using eZYuiColorPicker with eZContentFunctions::createAndPublishObject

Monday 25 January 2010 8:44:13 am

Hi there,

I use an "old" datatype extension to allow my users to pick colors with a nice color picker made with YUI.

http://ez.no/fr/developer/contribs/datatypes/ez_yui_color_picker

Inside the eZ publication system it works very well, but I have to create new objects from an extension.

So, this a shorten piece of code :

public static function nouvelleTache($vars){
        
    // Paramètres de l'objet
    $params = array();
    $params['parent_node_id'] =     $vars->variable("parent_node_id");
    $params['class_identifier'] =   'tache';
    $params['creator_id'] =         234;
    $params['section_id'] =         1;
    
    // Attributs de l'objet
    $attributesData = array();
    $attributesData['nom'] = $vars->variable("nom");
    // ...
    $attributesData['couleur'] = $vars->variable("attribut_couleur_picker");
    
    $params['attributes'] = $attributesData;
    
    $objet_cree = eZContentFunctions::createAndPublishObject($params);
    
    if($objet_cree != null)
        return true;
    
    return false;
    
}

So the problem would be at the line :

$attributesData['couleur'] = $vars->variable("attribut_couleur_picker");

Where $vars->variable("attribut_couleur_picker") correctly contains the hexa of the color (without the leading #).

But when the object is created the value stills empty...

It took a look at the class of the datatype (extension/ezyuicolorpicker/datatypes/ezyuicolorpicker/ezyuicolorpickertype.php) for the function who should be used.

But :

• I never wrote a DataType extension
• I don't know what should be the function (I excpected something like "fromString" :) )

Could you help me with that ?

Thanks,

Damien

Tuesday 26 January 2010 12:20:20 am

Thank you very much Damien,

It works very well !

Maybe it would be great to update the DataType to add the fromString to other users...

But the project seems to be abandoned since a long time.

Do you think we should create a new project on projects.ez.no ?
Or maybe the color picker will be added by default with eZ 4.3 ? (as I understood that the admin will be rewritten using AJAX and YUI).

Thanks,

Damien