UF-field class

All UF classes must be descendants to the class BaseType and located at <modulename>/lib/usefield/types/<classname>/ of corresponding module, for example /main/lib/userfield/types/stringtype.

• USER_TYPE_ID - user type unique identifier;
• RENDER_COMPONENT - name of component to be used for rendering.

• getDescription - method must return an associative array with user-friendly field type name (DESCRIPTION) and base type (BASE_TYPE);
• getDbColumnType - method returns MySQL column type that will store single field value. Multiple fields are always stored as text.

• prepareSettings - prepares and returns array of settings for user type instance;
• getFilterData - returns array to be used in the new filter in admin section;
• checkFields - validator, returns an associative array ['id'=> 'FIELD_NAME', 'text' => 'erorr message'] or an empty array with no validation errors;
• onSearchIndex - returns a search field value;
• onBeforeSave- called before saving UF field.
• getDefaultValue This method is available from version 20.5.500.
  
  Method parameters:

  Parameter	Description
  $userField	Array with user field metadata. Can be retrieved via the method GetUserFields of class CUserTypeManager.
  $additionalParameters	Array, containing necessary settings depending on the invoked template. Specifically, this array passes the following elements: mode - component template name; mediaType - template page name (at preset, .default, or mobile). Empty value is equivalent to .default.

  * with $additionalParameters can be an empty array. - returns user field value, set by default.