Save JINPUT to JTable via CLI AND web-backend

Question

I'm using a helper which is called by an Joomla-CLI-Script. In this script I would like to add items to my database using JTable::store.

In the storing-process I'm checking some JINPUT-values, that are not stored to the database. The inputs come from fields I defined in my fields.xml.

This is my source so far:

/**
 * generateItem function.
 * 
 * @access public
 * @param mixed $jsontable
 * @param mixed $ids
 * @return void
 */
public function generateItem($jsontable, $ids)
{
    $app                        =           JFactory::getApplication();
    $input                      =           $app->input;
    $input->set('creationdate', JFactory::getDate()->toSql());

    // Lets store it!   
    $row                        =           JTable::getInstance('Item','BestiaTable');      
    $row->check();

    $store                      =           $row->store(); 

    if($store == true)                      return $row->id;

    else                                    return false;       
}

Well, now I got the following problem: The item IS fetchable in JTable::store with

$jinput = JFactory::getApplication()->input;
var_dump($jinput->get('creationdate'));

If I run it via CLI - but if I save the item via admin-backend (there is a form to create items the manual way without CLI) I'm getting NULL for my var_dump.

Is there any possibility to solve that problem?

Thanks a LOT in advance! :-)

Answer 1

You must find an solution to bind the Data from input to the TableObject, thats all.

$dataToStore=array('creationdate'=> $input->get('creationdate'));
$row = JTable::getInstance('Item','BestiaTable'); 
// BIND DATA TO THE TABLE OBJECT!!!
$row->bind($dataToStore);


   $row->check(); // please write an check method which checks the datas before store!
   $store  = $row->store();