[5.0] Modal Dialog for User field

[Fedik]

Summary of Changes

Use Joomla dialog and postMessage for user field, instead of BS modal.

It may not hit 5.0, but in future will need to update anyway.

Testing Instructions

Apply patch, run npm install
Create User field, or use existing. try select the field value.

<field type="user" name="user_test" label="User"/>

Actual result BEFORE applying this Pull Request

Works with BS modal

Expected result AFTER applying this Pull Request

Works with joomla dialog

Link to documentations

Please select:

• Documentation link for docs.joomla.org:
• No documentation changes for docs.joomla.org needed
• Pull Request link for manual.joomla.org: as part of Content select in modal Manual#178 and Docs for Joomla Dialog (popup) script Manual#99
• No documentation changes for manual.joomla.org needed

References:

• [5.0] Generic ModalSelect field #40462
• [5.0][RFC] Joomla Dialog (popup) script. Free, without CC and registration #40150

[Ruud68]

Hi Fedik,
IMO J5 either uses BS modals or it uses dialogs, having a mix makes things more complex. I have seen this with name spacing and service providers which where introduced in 4.0 but needed up until 4.3 to be completed (and not sure if it is already complete?)

And I probably missed it, but what is the reason for switching from BS Modals to JS Dialogs? Is there any discussion on this that I (we as developers) can read up on?

Thanks,
Regards, Ruud

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[Fedik]

IMO J5 either uses BS modals or it uses dialogs,

It is not possible to change all at once, physically.

but what is the reason for switching from BS Modals to JS Dialogs

With BS you always should have pre-rendered HTML on the page.
With Dialog you can construct it on the way, load content with AJAX, much more flexible.
Something like it was in J 1.5-2.5 with SqueezeBox.

Is there any discussion on this

You can look linked issues in description of:

• [5.0][RFC] Joomla Dialog (popup) script. Free, without CC and registration #40150

Also discussion:

• System popups (modals) need a technical redesign (architecture). Discussion about possibilities. #32473

[HLeithner]

thx