I am trying to add a couple of custom toolbar buttons to my component, and at the moment the buttons are showing alright but can't get them to work.
My main problem is how to pass the id variable from the view layout to the sub-controller to perform a task in the case update a single column in the database.
These are my code structure
THE VIEW (view.html.php)
class LoanmanagerViewLoan extends JViewLegacy
{
protected $loanDetail;
public function display($tpl = null){
//Data from loanlist Model
$model=$this->getModel('Loan');
$this->loanDetail = $model->get_loan_detail();
$this->addToolbar();
parent::display($tpl);
}
protected function addToolbar()
{
// Get the toolbar object instance
$bar = JToolbar::getInstance('toolbar');
JToolBarHelper::Title(JText::_('Loan Details'));
//TRYING TO MAKE THIS BUTTON WORK
JToolBarHelper::custom('loan.approve', 'approve.png', 'icon-save.png', 'Approve Loan', false, false);
JToolBarHelper::custom('loan.deny', 'deny.png', 'deny.png', 'Deny Loan', false, false);
}
}
VIEW LAYOUT (tmpl/default.php)
JHtml::_('behavior.formvalidator');
<form action="<?php echo JRoute::_('index.php?option=com_loanmanager&view=loan&type=softloan&id='. (int) $loan->id); ?>" method="post" name="adminForm" id="loan-form" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input type="hidden" name="option" value="com_loanmanager" />
<input type="hidden" name="task" value="" />
<?php echo JHtml::_('form.token'); ?>
</form>
SUBCONTROLLER (controllers/loan.php)
class LoanmanagerControllerLoan extends JControllerLegacy
{
public function approve()
{
$jinput = JFactory::getApplication()->input;
$id = $input->post->get('id', 0, 'INT');
//Perform some SQL query with the $id
return parent::display();
}
}