bryce alvord
Posted in Component Development 5 years ago
I am writing a new component that will integrate a google sheets document with billing balances and match the balance in the sheet to the logged in user. Right now I have just hard coded my Sheets URL with API Key in the code but I want to add this to the configure menu in the admin dashboard in order to make it clean. So really I want to add two things, a text input for the URL and a text input for an error message in case a match couldnt be found between the logged in user and a user in the Sheets document. Could someone point me in the right direction?
Thanks!
Bryce alvord
Replied 5 years ago
Thanks ~Z~ Man, I really appreciate the help! That was a great explanation. I understand now
Michael Zülsdorff
Replied 5 years ago
Looks a little bit like that, yes.
There's an example in the how-to, and yesterday I posted another one in https://www.opensource-socialnetwork.org/discussion/view/3173/how-can-i-keep-the-left-side-bar-groups-visible-all-the-time
So what's the problem? You're interested in retrieving/saving component settings, ok. Hence, my next step would be having a look at a component which IS in fact retrieving/saving settings. And since it's always a good idea to use the simplest one, my favorite would be OssnSmilies. Then let's have a look at its settings page now ...
Okay, we see 1 input field, and right clicking into it and choosing 'Inspect' will open the browser's dev console highlighting a select tag named compatibility_mode. Right this already looks like a promising search term, and in fact searching the source for 'compatibility_mode' will return:
and
And having a look into these files already answers your question: getComSettings("COMPONENT") is doing the read, while setSettings("COMPONENT", array of settings) is doing the write.
Bryce alvord
Replied 5 years ago
I understand how to search source code, my question was about how to save and retrieve multiple values from the database. Unless Im misunderstanding something maybe
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