[opencms-dev] Antwort: Re: How to write into Frontend User-Forms?

[Frank Pertack]

Hello Nacho,

thank you for your expeditious answer. But I thought, the html form, that
is built by the contentload, contains the xml-Data in its controlcode. Is
there a seperate xml-file, that stores the data of the controlcode, and if
yes, what is the name of that xml-file?

And I would like to accept your offer and take the alternative code
snippets. Mightbe I get a better understanding of the problem.

Meanwhile I try your proposal with a smaller file.

Thank you very much

Best regards




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  |Nacho Fernández Orellana <nacho.fernandez.orellana at gmail.com>                                                                                     |
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  |15.06.2009 13:53                                                                                                                                  |
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  |Re: [opencms-dev] How to write into Frontend User-Forms?                                                                                          |
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  |opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org                                                                                                                   |
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Hi Frank and list,

Your frontend-form built using contentload and contentshow should build a
html form whose data will be sent to a certain target page (of course this
page can be the same jsp page that built the form). In any case, the
destination jsp should get the sent parameters and then use them to build
the xml of the phonebook entry.

I recommend programming a simple java bean that has all the elements your
phonebook entry has as fields and that provides a simple "toXml" method
that builds the right xml of a phonebook entry according to your xsd. That
way you could create a java method called something like
"writePhonebookEntry" that does something like:  
PhonebookEntryBean bean = getBeanFromRequestParameters( request ); <--
method to write             CmsFile file = cms.readFile(
PATH_OF_XML_YOU_ARE_EDITING );             file.setContents(
YOUR_BEAN.toXml().getBytes() );             cms.writeFile( file );

Where "cms" is a CmsObject and you have to be in the offline project and
lock the xml file accordingly.
I've always found this to be the simpler way, other method is editing the
xml contents for the modified fields in your form instead of rewriting the
complete well-formed xml. If you need code snippets for that alternative
approach, ask again. Hope this helps. Greetings,

Nacho Fernandez.
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