Accessing Fabrik Field Data in a Session variable

[rodfarrell]

I am using a Fabrik form to calculate a product price and want the calculated value to be available as a session variable that I can pass to a Hikashop shopping cart. Hikashop has a a custom price plugin that can accept the variable but I'm looking for some help on how to declare the variable value.

 

[gsellers]

I'm not sure if this will answer your question, but prior to the value of a calculation element being written to the DB table, you can "call" it by using "_raw" after the element name. It would look something like this; tablename___elementname_raw.

 

[jfquestiaux]

When is the calculated value has to be put in the session? On submitting the form?

 

[rodfarrell]

Yes. The value is calculated and put in the form dynamically (Ajax) and is then required in the session on submitting the form.

 

[jfquestiaux]

I used this recently on a project.
I use a PHP form plugin to do that.
You have to retreive the data of your calc element and put it in a variable, say $value, then initiate the joomla session

$session = JFactory::getSession();

You then put $value in the session

$session->set( 'value', $value );

You are then able to retreive it later using

$session = JFactory::getSession();
$session->get( 'value' );

 

[rodfarrell]

Finally got back to this project. That solution is exactly what I needed. Thanks for your help.

 

[Bren]

Hello all.
I've been trying to set a php session variable of a joomla fabrik table id value via a fabrik button js or php form plugin for a week now with no success. Below is a link to the details of what I'm doing.
http://fabrikar.com/forums/index.ph...-variable-with-a-button-in-fabrik-form.41305/
I've tried doing the above php form plugin; but I'm no having any success. Maybe I'm putting the code in the wrong places? Any suggestions...
Thanks in advance.

 

[Bren]

Actually, I just figured it out and finally got it working. Yay!