looking for replacement for Jrequest::SetVar(name, $Array)

[joomalungma]

Hello every one,
I'm trying to upgrade my component from J1.5 -> J1.6
in early version for J1.5 i've used in controller
JRequest::SetVar(name, $Array) to path some Array to the view,
Important that $array is really Array.
Now in J1.6 i'm tryin to use JInput instead of JRequest and i can't
pass Array through it.
my code in the View
$this->get(name); returns just string(5) 'Array' not an Array with
data.

Is there a way to path array to the view?

Sorry if this is a wrong place for this post.

[Michael Babker]

JInput wasn't introduced until Platform 11.1, which is in Joomla! 1.7.
JRequest will continue to work through the 2.5 release in January. That
said, I've done some work on a branch to move off deprecated code to
handle getting data, but I'm not sure yet how to set through JInput.

Here's a get example:

$app = JFactory::getApplication();
$input = $app->input;
$input->get('view', 'feeds', 'word');

Hope this helps some!

Michael Babker
Owner, FLBab.com

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- US Army Corps of Engineers

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[Louis Landry]

The logic to set a value into JInput is nearly the same as getting a value:

$input->set('name', $value);

When you call:

$input->get('name');

If you are getting back the string 'Array' when you expect an actual array, it is for good reason.  The default filter for JInput::get() is CMD.  This is a fairly strict string filter and is thus casting the value to a string and running it through a regular expression.  There are a couple of ways you could approach this issue.

1.  *Simple*  Ask for an array from JInput::get()

$input->get('name', null, 'array');

The second argument is an optional default value if the named value doesn't exist in the request.  The third value is what type of value you want to get from the request.

2.  *Better*  Ask for an array from JInput with a specific set of filters for array offsets.

// Here is an example array coming in from the request based on submitting a form.

$_REQUEST = array(

'name' => array(

'p_id' => 3,

'body' => '<p>Lorem Ipsum...',

'title' => 'My Item',

'access' => 0

);

};

// Let's get the data from the request as an array exactly filtered the way we want it.

$input->getArray(array(

'name' => array(

'p_id' => 'INT',

'body' => 'HTML',

'title' => 'STRING',

'access' => 'INT'

);

));

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Louis Landry

louis....@gmail.com

[joomalungma]

Thank you for your answer. Both way exactly what I'm looking for.