Custom Fields in the Manager

Adding a Custom Field¶

Adding custom fields to manager forms - such as the Create Chunk, Update Resource, etc - in MODX Revolution is fairly straightforward. You just use the OnFormRender Plugin events.

We want to add a field called 'Home' that puts an address field into the manager interface, and then stores it into the longtitle value (this is not the best place to store it, but let's go along with it for tutorial purposes :) ).

To do so, we'd create a Plugin and associate it to the OnDocFormRender and OnDocFormSave events. Our code would look like this:

<?php
/**
 * Register a form field to forms
 */
switch ($modx->event->name) {
    case 'OnDocFormPrerender':
        /* if you want to add custom scripts, css, etc, register them here */
        break;
    case 'OnDocFormRender':
        $v = '';
        if (isset($scriptProperties['resource'])) {
            /* on the update screen, so set the value */
            $v = $scriptProperties['resource']->get('longtitle');
        } else {
            /* on the create screen, so set the default */
            $profile = $modx->user->getOne('Profile');
            $v = $profile->get('address');
        }
        /* now do the HTML */
        $fields = '
<div class="x-form-item x-tab-item">
    <label class="x-form-item-label" style="width:150px;">Home</label>
    <div class="x-form-element">
        <input type="text" name="home" value="'.$v.'" class="x-form-text x-form-field" />
    </div>
</div>
';
        $modx->event->output($fields);
break;
    case 'OnDocFormSave':
        /* do processing logic here. */
        $resource =& $scriptProperties['resource'];
        $resource->set('longtitle',$_POST['home']);
        $resource->save();
        break;
}
return;

Note the CSS classes and styling in the form HTML. Those are unnecessary; but will make the form "match" the styling of the rest of the fields.