I can't put die; or debug(); into the prepare/process or complete methods because of how the wizard works. It would be nice if at the very least placing debug or die could give some feedback on screen instead of merely redirecting (and therefore losing all the output)

This is a feature request, not a bug.

Complex PBN works great with cakephp-wizard but what about simple PBN? If a given input is a certain value I might want to add a single step, for instance. The PBN in cakephp wizard is not terribly efficient for this scenario.

I envision the API could be trivially extended with getNextStep() and setNextStep() methods in the _processStepX() part of the controller - and, conceptually, that may be a simpler way to envisage complex PBN as well.

In any case the following code works for me - you may want to update the wiki to list this as an alternative to the PBN you have designed:

public function wizard($step = null) {
$wizard_data = $this->Wizard->read();

           //e.g. $condition = !empty($wizard_data['stepname']['data_to_branch_on'];

    if($condition)) {
        $first_array = array_splice ($this->wizard_steps_array, 0, $step_number);
        $this->wizard_steps_array = array_merge ($first_array, $additional_steps_array, $this->wizard_steps_array);
    }
    $this->Wizard->steps = $this->wizard_steps_array;

}

All the best,
Daniel

Whenever I submit on my 'location' step, i use $this->Wizard->branch( 'us' ) to switch to the US branch below, but I get the following error:

Step validation: review is not a valid step. [APP/plugins/wizard/controllers/components/wizard.php, line 300]

        $this->Wizard->steps = array( 
            'location',
            array(
                'us' => array( 
                    'dwollainfo'
                    ),
                'nonus' => array( 
                    'numbers',
                    'accounttype',
                    array(
                        'personal' => array(
                            'personalinfo'
                            ),
                        'business' => array(
                            'businessinfo'
                            )
                        ),

                    )
                ),
            'review'
            );

It SHOULD be taking me to the Us -> Dwollainfo step right? Why is it throwing an error that review is not a valid step?

I'm trying to make a wizard that will reset if the user navigates away from the wizard but i also want to use plotbranching.

The wizard seems to reset when i branch to my 'fail' branch, if i disbale autoReset it works fine

I have included my Component configuration below

        $this->Wizard->nestedViews = true;
        $this->Wizard->wizardAction = 'step';
        $this->Wizard->defaultBranch = true;
        $this->Wizard->steps = array('details', 'address', array('success' => array('payment', 'complete'), 'fail' => array('complete')));
        $this->Wizard->autoReset = true;

Hi,

My Wizard works just fine but I cannot make it work in the end. The _afterComplete ( ) method isn't called. My wizardAction is a prefixed action ( prefix_add ). I tried to set it in the cake array format but it seems to me that your plugin doesn't support it. The problem comes from here, I think :

line 234 to 248

          if ($proceed) {
        $this->save();
            if (next($this->steps)) {
           if ($this->autoAdvance) {
         $this->redirect();
           }

        $this->redirect(current($this->steps));
    } else {
        $this->Session->write('Wizard.complete', $this->read());        
            $this->reset();
        $this->controller->redirect($this->wizardAction);
    }
}

When there's a next step, you call Wizard::redirect that builds the url without paying attention to any prefix ( line 361 ). Cake seems to understand alone that it's a prefix, maybe because there's a parameter added at the end and renders the different steps correctly.

But when there is no next step however, you're using directly the Controller::redirect method. A prefix having already been set, the wizard tries in my case to redirect to the name of the method as it is set litterally in my beforeFilter callback but adds the prefix a second time, redirecting to a non existing prefix_prefix_add action.

I tried setting the url in the cake array format, but I fails right from the beginning because since the Wizard::redirect ( ) method calls the Controller::redirect with wizardAction as 'action' parameter, the Router crashes.

Here's what I'm proposing in Wizard::redirect ( ) :

function redirect($step = null, $status = null, $exit = true) {
    if ($step == null) {
        $step = $this->_getExpectedStep();
    }
            $controller = Inflector::underscore($this->controller->name);
            if (is_array($this->wizardAction)) {
              $url = $this->wizardAction;
              $url['controller'] = $controller;
            } else {
                $url = array('controller' => $controller , 'action' => $this->wizardAction);  
            }
    $url[] = $step;
    $this->controller->redirect($url, $status, $exit);
}

Changing the name of the wizardAction parameter to something like wizardUrl may also be interesting if you decide that supporting prefixes is necessary

Thanks for all the work, it saved me hours of work !

Hello could you please write some few lines in documentation, how drafts works and how it was intented to use? It would help other people to use and extend this plugin. Thank You.

Im using your example for branching when i click on male or female i get this error

This webpage has a redirect loop
The webpage at http://localhost/fit/clients/wizard/Array has resulted in too many redirects. Clearing your cookies for this site or allowing third-party cookies may fix the problem. If not, it is possibly a server configuration issue and not a problem with your computer.

the url looks like this
clients/wizard/Array

am i missing something here ?

//controller

$this->Wizard->steps = array('step1', 'step2', 'gender', array('male' => array('step3')), 'step4', array('female' => array('step5')));

function _processGender() {

$this->Owner->set($this->data);
if($this->Client->validates()) {

if($this->data['Owner']['gender'] == 'female') {

   $this->Wizard->branch('female');

} else {

   $this->Wizard->branch('male');

}

return true;

}

return false;
}

//view

$options=array('male'=>'male','female'=>'female');

echo $this->Form->radio('Owner.gender',$options,$attributes);?>

Please could you update the repo to specify which license this project is distributed under?

Is it impossible to use branch mechanism at first step?

I can't figure out how to do it. I just need to skip first step in particular condotion.

My variants:

public function beforeFilter() {
    $this->Wizard->steps = array(array('childs' => array('child')), 'details', 'template', 'invite', 'message');
    $this->Wizard->defaultBranch = false;
}


public function wizard($step = null) {
    $this->Wizard->branch('childs', true);
    $this->Wizard->process($step); 
} 

Doesn't work. (error incorrect step. But if i returns to /wizard all goes correctly)

public function beforeFilter() {
    $this->Wizard->steps = array(array('family' => array('details'), 'childs' => array('child', 'details')), 'template', 'invite', 'message');
    //$this->Wizard->defaultBranch = false;
}

doesnt work after adding

public function wizard($step = null) {
    $this->Wizard->branch('childs');
    $this->Wizard->process($step); 
} 

but works without $this->Wizard->branch('childs');

How can i got this work?