SkyBlueCanvas

Extensions

The code below is the actual code for the Events manager for SkyBlueCanvas. As you can see, the code is short and simple. Most of the heavy lifting is handled by the Manager superclass. The HTML code that follows the sample PHP code is the input form for editing Events items.

<?php

defined('SKYBLUE') or die(basename(__FILE__));

class events extends manager
{
  function events() 
  {
    $this->Init();
  }
  
  function AddEventHandlers()
  {
    $this->AddEventHandler('OnBeforeSave', 'PrepareForSave');
  }
  
  function PrepareForSave()
  {
    $this->AddFieldValidation('name', 'notnull');
    $this->SaveDescription();
  }
  
  function InitProps() 
  {
    $this->SetProp('headings', array('Name', 'Date', 'Tasks'));
    $this->SetProp('tasks', array('edit', 'delete'));
    $this->SetProp('cols', array('name', 'date' ));
  }
  
  function SaveDescription()
  {
    global $Core;
    $this->SaveStory(
      $Core->GetVar($_POST,'story', $this->GetStoryFileName()), 
      stripslashes(urldecode($_POST['description'])));
    $_POST['description'] = 
      base64_encode(stripslashes(urldecode($_POST['description'])));
  }
  
  function InitEditor() 
  {
    global $Core;
    
    // Set the form message
    
    $this->SetFormMessage('Event');
    
    // Initialize the object properties to empty strings or
    // the properties of the object being edited
    
    $_OBJ = $this->InitObjProps($this->skin, $this->obj);
    
    // This step creates a $form array to pass to buildForm().
    // buildForm() merges the $obj properites with the form HTML.
    
    $form['ID']        = $this->GetItemID($_OBJ);
    $form['NAME']      = $this->GetObjProp($_OBJ,'name');
    $form['DATE']      = $this->GetObjProp($_OBJ,'date');
    $form['TIME']      = $this->GetObjProp($_OBJ,'time');
    $form['MERIDIAN']  = $Core->MeridianSelector($_OBJ['meridian']);
    $form['VENUE']     = $this->GetObjProp($_OBJ,'venue');
    $form['ADDRESS']   = $this->GetObjProp($_OBJ,'address');
    $form['CITY']      = $this->GetObjProp($_OBJ,'city');
    $form['STATE']     = $Core->StateSelector($_OBJ['state']);
    $form['ZIP']       = $this->GetObjProp($_OBJ,'zip');
    $form['ADMISSION'] = $this->GetObjProp($_OBJ,'admission');
    $form['PHONE']     = $this->GetObjProp($_OBJ,'phone');
    $form['URL']       = $this->GetObjProp($_OBJ,'url');
    $form['DESCRIPTION']   = null;
    $form['STORY']         = $this->GetStoryFileName();
    $form['STYLESELECTOR'] = $this->GetObjProp($_OBJ,'styleselector');
    $form['ORDER'] = 
        $Core->OrderSelector2($this->objs, 'name', $_OBJ['name']);
    $this->BuildForm($form);
  }
}

?> 

The code below is the HTML for building the form for adding Events items in the SkyBlueCanvas admin control panel. You will notice the familiar token format {name:value} in the example below. Just like the presentation on the front end, the SkyBlueCanvas managers use tokens as a sort of variable to replace with literal values.

<input id="id" 
       type="hidden" 
       name="id" 
       value="{OBJ:ID}" 
       />
<input id="objtype" 
       type="hidden" 
       name="objtype" 
       value="events" 
       />

<label for="name">[TERM:NAME]:</label>
<input type="text" 
       name="name" 
       value="{OBJ:NAME}" 
       size="45" 
       />

<label for="date">[TERM:DATE]:</label>
<input type="text" 
       name="date" 
       value="{OBJ:DATE}" 
       size="45" 
       />

<label for="time">[TERM:TIME]:</label>
<input type="text" 
       name="time" 
       value="{OBJ:TIME}" 
       size="10" 
       /> 
{OBJ:MERIDIAN}

<label for="admission">[TERM:ADMISSION]:</label>
<input type="text" 
       name="admission" 
       value="{OBJ:ADMISSION}" 
       size="45" 
       />

<label for="venue">[TERM:VENUE]:</label>
<input type="text" 
       name="venue" 
       value="{OBJ:VENUE}" 
       size="45" 
       />

<label for="phone">[TERM:PHONE]:</label>
<input type="text" 
       name="phone" 
       value="{OBJ:PHONE}" 
       size="45" 
       />

<label for="address">[TERM:ADDRESS]:</label>
<input type="text" 
       name="address" 
       value="{OBJ:ADDRESS}" 
       size="45" 
       />

<label for="city">[TERM:CITY]:</label>
<input type="text" 
       name="city" 
       value="{OBJ:CITY}" 
       size="45" 
       />

<label for="state">[TERM:STATE]:</label>
{OBJ:STATE}

<td valign="top">[TERM:ZIP]:</label>
<input type="text" 
       name="zip" 
       value="{OBJ:ZIP}" 
       size="45" 
       />

<label for="url">[TERM:URL]:</label>
<input type="text" 
       name="url" 
       value="{OBJ:URL}" 
       size="45" 
       />

<label for="description">[TERM:DESCRIPTION]:</label>
<div id="editoranchor"></div>
<textarea id="story_content" 
          name="description" 
          cols="55" 
          rows="22"></textarea>

<input id="storyfile" 
       type="hidden" 
       name="story" 
       value="{OBJ:STORY}" 
      />

<label for="order">[TERM:ORDER]:</label>
{OBJ:ORDER}