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Formfields

Formfields are the hearth of Voyagers BREAD-system. Each formfield represents a field in your database-table and one input (or output) in BREAD. To tweak your formfields you can insert JSON options which are described in the following pages.
All formfields share a handful options:

Description

All types can include a description in order to help your future self or other users using your Voyager admin panel to understand exactly what a specific BREAD input field is for, this can be defined in the Optional Details JSON input field:
{
"description": "A helpful description text here for your future self."
}

Display options

There are also a few options that you can include to change the way your BREAD is displayed. You can add a display key to your json object and change the width of the particular field and even specify a custom ID.
{
"display": {
"width": "3",
"id": "custom_id"
}
}
The width is displayed on a 12-grid system. Setting it with a width of 3 will span 25% of the width.
The id will let you specify a custom id wrapper around your element. example:
<div id="custom_id">
<!-- Your field element -->
</div>

Default value

Most formfields allow you to define a default value when adding an entry:
{
"default" : "Default text"
}

Null Values

You might want to save an input field into the database as a null value instead of an empty string.
Simply enough, inside the BREAD you can include the following Optional Details for the field:
{
"null": ""
}
This will turn an empty string into a null value. However you might want to be able to add both an empty string and a null value to the database for that field. However you have to choose a replacement for the null value, but it can be anything you wish. For example, if you want a field to change a string (ex. Nothing) into a null value you could include the following Optional Details for that field:
{
"null": "Nothing"
}
Now entering Nothing into the field will end up as a null value in the database.

Generating Slugs

Using the bread builder you may wish to automatically generate slugs of a certain input. Lets say you have some posts, which have a title and a slug. If you want to automatically generate the slug from the title attribute, you may include the following Optional Details:
{
"slugify": {
"origin": "title",
"forceUpdate": true
}
}
This will automatically generate the slug from the input of the title field. If a slug does already exists, it will only be updated if forceUpdate is set enabled, by default this is disabled.

Custom view

You can specify a custom view to be used for a formfield. To do so, you have to specify the view attribute for your desired field:
{
"view": "my_view"
}
This will then load my_view from resources/views instead of the formfield.
You get plenty of data passed to your view for you to use:
  • $view can be browse, read, edit, add or order
  • $content the content for this field
  • $dataType the DataType
  • $dataTypeContent the whole model-instance
  • $row the DataRow
  • $options the DataRow details
You can also use a custom field view for a specific action (browse, edit, etc) or for similar actions (browse and read). The custom views are:
{
"view_browse": "my_browse_view",
"view_read": "my_read_view",
"view_add": "my_add_view",
"view_edit": "my_edit_view",
"view_order": "my_order_view"
}
The same variables as above will be passed to your custom action view.
Developing a custom formfield? If you are developing a custom formfield and want to customize any of the views, you can do so by merging view into $options in your formfields createContent() method.