Update user from front end

Kirby 4 Solved ✔️
1

I am trying to update the user content file from the front end, specifically appendending to a structure field.

After looking at some solutions on the forum, I put this together in a controller:

<?php

return function ($kirby) {
    $error = '';
    if ($kirby->request()->is('POST') && get('unit')) {

        try {
            $kirby->impersonate('kirby');
           
            if(get('unit') !== ''){ 


                $submission = $kirby->user()->homework()->yaml();

                $submission[] = [
                'unitname' => 'The name of the unit',
                'submission' => 'url',
                'grade' => 'false'
                ];

                $kirby->user()->update([
                'homework' => Yaml::encode($submission)
                ], 'en');

                $kirby->user()->update([
                'homework' => Yaml::encode($submission)
                ], 'kr');
              

            }
    
        } catch (Exception $e) {
          $error = error_message;
        }
    
      }
    
      return [
        'error' => $error
      ];

};

Unfourtunately this doesnt work and dont get any error messages. What am I missing. This user role does not have panel access but it still doesnt work if i grant access.

2

Nevermind, turned out user update was set to false.

3

Spoke too soon - it works directly in the template but not in the controller when triggered by the form.

Would appreciate some help there.

My form looks like this

<?php if ($user = $kirby->user()) : ?>
<form method="POST" action="<?= $page->url() ?>">

  <div class="form-input">
    <?= label("Submit Unit", 'unit', 'label-class') ?>
    <?= input('text', 'unit', 'unit', 'unit') ?>
  </div>

  
  <?= button('submit', 'unit', 'sendUnit', 'btn', 'Submit Unit', []) ?>

  <?php if($error): ?>
    <div class="alert"><?= $error ?></div>
  <?php endif ?>
</form>

<?php endif ?>
4

What about the fields types you want to update? Does the data fit the field types?

This won’t give you anything, because you are using an undefined constant here.

5

Yeah i caught that, i just followed some code from another forum post. I replaced the constant with the $e and get error message through now.

i finally got it working a little while ago… seems it was down to duplicate IDs in my form.

6

Yeah, well, hard to tell from something like that where you can only guess what is what…

7

its my own plugin too!! :face_with_open_eyes_and_hand_over_mouth:

I should have read my own docs.

8

:rofl:

But maybe make a video, given that nobody seems to read anymore.

9

No. I tend to stutter. Would confuse people even more!