tag input field without a form.

[Mohamed Boucetta]

Hello,
I am developing a component.
In this component I would like to add an input tag field (the same you have when you create an article).This input will be associated to search panel. I tried:
$tags= JFormHelper::loadFieldType('Tag', false);
echo $tags->getInput();
with no success.
Any idea?
Regards,
Mohamed

[Viper]

Remove second parameter.

[Mohamed Boucetta]

Thanks Viper but it does not work.

To be able to execute $tags->getInput(); I had to change it from protected to public but still it needs a form object in tag.php -> getOptions():

if ($this->form->getName() == 'com_tags.tag')

Any idea?

Regards,

[Viper]

Try to asking in github repo, because it's looks like a bug. All fields have protected methods, so loadField() doesn't make sense.

[Michael Babker]

The getInput() method is protected but through the magic getter you can get it through "$tags->input;"

Haven't followed anything else in here, just wanted to comment on that part.

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[Mohamed Boucetta]

Indeed $tags->input works as you said.

But it does not fix my issue.

Thanks anyway for the hint :)

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[Mohamed Boucetta]

I have posted an issue on the github after your suggestion.

Thanks.

[Mohamed Boucetta]

Here is the reply I have got from github:

Form fields aren't really designed to be used outside of the "normal" form constructs. It is a requirement to have a JForm object set to JFormField instances, so if you're trying to use the field to spit out markup outside of the "normal" workflow you'll need to build up a stub JForm object with the minimal config needed to make this work.

[Mohamed Boucetta]

I have done as Github has described below and it works!

Thanks guys.