Retaining dynamically inserted components

[loshtar]

Hi,

I have a panel that is populated dynamically with a component, below is the loop that does it:

  function SearchButtonClick($sender, $params)
       {
           $sql = "select * from test_table";
            $this->SearchQuery->setSQL( $sql );
            $this->SearchQuery->open();

            $this->SearchQuery->first();

            while( !$this->SearchQuery->EOF ){
 
                $this->SearchQuery->next();
                $name = $this->SearchQuery->fieldget( 'name' );
                $key = $this->SearchQuery->fieldget( 'key_' );

                $acBox = new ActBox();
                $acBox->set_AName( $name );
                $acBox->set_AID( $key );
                $this->ResPanel->insertComponent( $acBox );
                $acBox->Parent=$this->ResPanel;
            }
       }

ResPanel is the parent, and "acBox" is the name for the dynamically added components.

ActBox is a simple custom component that I created that just outputs an HTML table.

This all works fine, but on any subsequent form submission, or ajax call, those dynamically added components disappear.

I actually found a "hack" solution for this by storing them in a published property array, and re-inserting them into the ResPanel on each ajax call, etc, but I would like to find a true solution in whicH I do not have to manually manage these dynamically added components.

Thanks
Loshtar

[405hp]

I think you need to use serialize() and unserialze() functions for that. Look at some of the other components and see how they use them.