How to get a field value from an Editor Instance? (PHP)

col45

Here's what I'm trying to do:

    ```Field::inst( 'updatecount' )
        ->set(Field::SET_EDIT)
        ->setValue( Field::inst( 'updatecount'' )->getValue() + 1 )```

Increment an "update count" on edit.

The getValue isn't returning anything, What function should I be calling to return the posted data?
Short of writing my own parser to loop through the posted array, I'm at a loss?

Due to the structure of the posted data I can't simply get the value via $_POST['data']['updatecount']

data[row_x][updatecount']:10005

Thanks in advance

col45

Never mind, I've worked out a way to do it
Sudo code:

if ($_POST) $key = array_keys($_POST['data']); $key = $key[0]; var_dump( $_POST['data'][$key]['updatecount']);

allan

hi,

Good to hear you found a solution. It looks like you could probably use the server-side preEdit event to do this as well (if the updatecount is in the submitted data, that is how I would recommend you do it).

A database trigger might be the best solution, or a database function, although the Editor libraries don't currently support db functions I'm afraid.

Allan