Tutorial 7: Guest Book¶
The aim of this extension is to deal with multiple forms of the same table and to explain how update views can be used. It creates a guest book which is inspired from the extensions available in the TER. Download this example from the TER (sav_library_example7). This extension uses a table with the following fields:
- the guest firstname,
- the guest lastname,
- the guest email,
- the guest website,
- the guest message,
- a comment field.
We want to have three forms associated with this table:
- one form for the guest input (FORM),
- one form for the list of guest inputs (LIST),
- one form for a teaser of the most recent entries (TEASER).
For the guest input, we want to avoid spams and to control the content. Therefore, we want the following behavior:
- The guest will answer to a captcha, then his/her email will be required.
- If he/she has given a valid email, he/she will receive a personal link by email.
- Using this link, the guest will be able to input data. His/her firstname, lastname and message should be required fields.
- The guest input will only appear on your website if you validate the data.
To perform this task, we will use new concepts: the update view and a filter for the page access thanks to the extension sav_filters already used in tutorial 1.