[Vtigercrm-developers] VTiger Extension Module create custom field for Accounts Module

[Alan Lord]

A few comments on your vtlib code:

public function addKvkfield(){

     $module = new Vtiger_Module(); // Not required
     $module->name = 'Accounts'; // Not required
     $module = $module->getInstance('Accounts'); // Not required

Just do:
     $module = Vtiger_Module::getInstance('Accounts');

     $blockInstance = new Vtiger_Block(); // Not required
     $blockInstance->label = 'LBL_ACCOUNT_INFORMATION'; // Not required
     $blockInstance = 
$blockInstance->getInstance($blockInstance->label,$module); // Not required

Just do

$blockInstance = Vtiger_Block::getInstance('LBL_ACCOUNT_INFORMATION', 
$module);

     $fieldInstance = new Vtiger_Field();
     $fieldInstance->name = 'KvKNummer'; // Should really only use 
lowercase.

     $fieldInstance->table = $module->basetable; // Not required (Chosen 
by default)
     $fieldInstance->column = 'kvknummer'; // Change to

     $fieldInstance->column = fieldInstance->name;

     $fieldInstance->columntype = 'VARCHAR(100)';

     $fieldInstance->uitype = 2;

     $fieldInstance->typeofdata = 'V~M';
     $blockInstance->addField($fieldInstance);
}

So it will end up looking like this:

> public function addKvkfield(){
>
>     $module = Vtiger_Module::getInstance('Accounts');
>     $blockInstance = Vtiger_Block::getInstance('LBL_ACCOUNT_INFORMATION', $module);
>
>     $fieldInstance = new Vtiger_Field();
>     $fieldInstance->name = 'kvknummer';
>     $fieldInstance->column = $fieldInstance->name; // Good idea to keep name and columnname the same
>     $fieldInstance->columntype = 'VARCHAR(100)';
>     $fieldInstance->uitype = 1; // No need to use 2 anymore. Setting "M" below will introduce the Red asterisk
>     $fieldInstance->typeofdata = 'V~M';
>     $blockInstance->addField($fieldInstance);
> }