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Pull in model data, not an Xref 20 Apr 2015 07:42 #12911

MorganL Offline Platinum Member Posts: 438 Thank you received: 53 Karma: 15	I need to display some data in my view that is not a Xref, ie not linked by foreign key. How is this achieved IE primary model and view is called locations The secondary model I with to pull in and display is called periods, I just want all the data Thanks in advance for any assistance
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Pull in model data, not an Xref 13 May 2015 11:35 #12977

Romkabouter Offline Elite Member Posts: 310 Thank you received: 131 Karma: 48	You can get your second model in the view like this (or something like this): $modelPeriods = CkJModel::getInstance('periods', YourComponentModel'); then do $periods = $modelPeriods ->getItems();
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Pull in model data, not an Xref 14 May 2015 18:24 #12990

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Pull in model data, not an Xref 14 May 2015 19:43 #12991

MorganL Offline Platinum Member Posts: 438 Thank you received: 53 Karma: 15	OK that worked superbly. I assume there is a way of using that call to point at a specific model function defined within the periods model itselfl? i.e $modelPeriods = CkJModel::getInstance('periods', YourComponentModel', 'custom.periodmodel'); or similar?
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Pull in model data, not an Xref 15 May 2015 08:03 #12992

Romkabouter Offline Elite Member Posts: 310 Thank you received: 131 Karma: 48	I don't know, I don't think the $config argument in getInstance can be used to call a function, but I have never tried. If you want to call a function, use $modelPeriods->yourfunction();
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Pull in model data, not an Xref 15 May 2015 09:04 #12994

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OOps.. I just read my question and got it completely wrong. I am not after calling a function but adding a custom query in the prepareQuery function

protected function prepareQuery(&$query, $pk)
	{
		$acl = RtambassadorHelper::getActions();
		//FROM : Main table
		$query->from('#__rtambassador_rotas AS a');

		//IMPORTANT REQUIRED FIELDS
		$this->addSelect(	'a.id,'
						.	'a.created_by');

		switch($this->getState('context', 'all'))
		{
			case 'rota.rota':

So if I want to add a case of 'rota.mycustomquery' and call it with the CkJModel::getInstance( code is that possible?

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Pull in model data, not an Xref 16 May 2015 10:08 #12999

Romkabouter Offline Elite Member Posts: 310 Thank you received: 131 Karma: 48	Are you talking about joining another table? Then you can add a case like this: case 'rota.mycustomquery': $this->addJoin('`#__yourcomponent_yourtable` AS _link_ ON _link_.id = a.keyfield', 'LEFT'); break;
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Pull in model data, not an Xref 18 May 2015 13:56 #13068

Romkabouter Offline Elite Member Posts: 310 Thank you received: 131 Karma: 48	And yes, you can use the CkJModel::getInstance also. For instance: case 'rota.mycustomquery': $modelPeriods = CkJModel::getInstance('periods', YourComponentModel); $periods = $modelPeriods->getItems(); var_dump($periods); break; $periods should give you all the items from the Periods model With that, you can code whatever you need
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Pull in model data, not an Xref 18 May 2015 17:36 #13071

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Not quite

When I use

$modelPeriods = CkJModel::getInstance('periods', YourComponentModel');

$periods = $modelPeriods ->getItems();

it brings through then ENTIRE model, every single record from periods. Hence I would like (in the periods model) to create a custom case in prepareQuery that filters the information i need and call THAT custom case using the CKjModel in the locations view.

Summary - I want to pull though the periods, but I dont need all of them so need to be able to filter them

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Pull in model data, not an Xref 18 May 2015 18:51 #13073

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I understand your question now (I think).
If you want to pull data from periods in another model, your solultion can be simpler.

You can still use

$modelPeriods = CkJModel::getInstance('periods', YourComponentModel);

And then use

$modelPeriods->addWhere("yourfield=needvalue");

to only get the records you want.
"yourfield=needvalue" is added as regular SQL querystring. (i.e.: "id in (2,5,6)") is added to the SQL, can be anything you need.

You cán set up an extra case in the prepareQuery of the periods model, but then you should set the state to 'periods.customquery' before calling getItems on the periodmodel. Because switch($this->getState('context', 'all')) is checked in prepareQuery
After that, set it back to what is was.
I think that is much more complicated then need be.

Does that make any sense?

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Pull in model data, not an Xref 18 May 2015 19:00 #13074

MorganL Offline Platinum Member Posts: 438 Thank you received: 53 Karma: 15	Perfect sense, and so obvious I just slapped myself around the head. Many thanks, question finally answered =)
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