How to create a controller, routing and views/template in html ?

[IMDC]

Hi ! I am new to EspoCRM and I find it very cool with a very high potential with good structure and good technologies used.

But I have many questions to be able for develop extensions.

For example if i create a entity named "Quote" in the admin with fields and relations needed

File : custom/Espo/Custom/Controllers/Quote.php

namespace Espo\Custom\Controllers;

class Quote extends \Espo\Core\Controllers\Record  {

    public function actionInvoice($params) {

         die('Hey test dude');

    }

}

File : custom/Espo/Custom/Resources/routes.json

[
  {
      "route":"/Quote/invoice/:id",
       "method":"get",
       "params":{
           "controller":"Quote",
           "action":"invoice",
           "id":":id"
       }
  }

]

When I try to access to my die page "hey test dude" with url : /Quote/invoice/[id_of_invoice] I see error 404 .. I tried to flush all cache and rebuild but it does not work .. Cannot access the page that I have created.

And it is possible too to create HTML template in Resources/layouts/ ? Like for example if I create Quote.html.twig or something ?

Thank you very much and have a great day !!

[yuri]

Hi

You can create method

function public getActionInvoice($params, $data, $request) 

in your Controller

It will be available by GET request api/v1/Quote/actions/invoice

Get parameters will be available by

$request->get('parameterName'); 

If you need post then you can use postActionInvoice method.

If you want to use routes you will need to clear cache after changes in routes file.


You can't use layouts for html templates.

[stevengpn]

no need to add "s" for "action": api/v1/Quote/actions/invoice

[bandtank]

Is this still the right way to do it? I tried, but it isn't working.

Here's my /custom/Espo/Custom/Controllers/Timesheet.php file:

<?php

namespace Espo\Custom\Controllers;

class Timesheet extends \Espo\Core\Templates\Controllers\BasePlus
{
  function public getActionTstest($params, $data, $request) {
    return {"asdf": 5};
  }
}

Nothing I've tried has worked. I actually get a status 200 from the API call regardless of which endpoint I try even when it doesn't exist:

GET /api/v1/timesheet/action/tstest
GET /api/v1/timesheet/actions/tstest
GET /api/v1/timesheet/action/not-a-real-endpoint

The body is empty, the status code is 200, and the headers look normal. What's going on?

[bandtank]

After thinking for a few more minutes, I'm wondering if I need to extend another class or if somehow the automatically generated class definition is wrong. Thoughts?

It looks like the controller should already be setup to handle this, so I don't know what else to try:

116   {
117     "route":"/:controller/action/:action",
118     "method":"get",
119     "params":{
120         "controller":":controller",
121         "action":":action"
122     }
123   },

Edit: I found this in the log:

[2017-11-13 16:41:16] Espo.ERROR: Uncaught Exception ParseError: "syntax error, unexpected 'getActionTstest' (T_STRING), expecting '('" at /var/www/crm/custom/Espo/Custom/Controllers/Timesheet.php line 7 {"exception":"[object] (ParseError(code: 0): syntax error, unexpected 'getActionTstest' (T_STRING), expecting '(' at /var/www/crm/custom/Espo/Custom/Controllers/Timesheet.php:7)"} []

Edit2: Got it. I copied the code from this thread without looking at it closely. 'public' and 'function' were reversed. This worked:

public function getActionTstest($params, $data, $request) {
    return 1234;
}