How to save a form on my Moralis server in a class & pull the forms data to display in my NFT marketplace dApp

Moralis General
#1

I am making an Opensea fork using the NFT marketplace boilerplate from Moralis. I would like to know how I could allow users to add their own NFT collections to my marketplace without needing me to manually approve each submission & add them to the collections.jsx file on the backend. A Moralis team member suggested “You could save collections e.g. through a form that a user submits which is saved to your Moralis server in a Class, and then pull the list from your server instead of collections.js” Does anyone know how to do this or have a video & or article they recommend that could show me how to do so?

#2

You can use usenewmoralisobject and usemoralisquery hooks to implement this.

with usenewmoralisobject you can create and save new collection data to database.
with usemoralisquery you can fetch the realtime data form the database.

Refer below docs for example.


#3 
import { useState } from 'react'
import { ethers } from 'ethers'
import { create as ipfsHttpClient } from 'ipfs-http-client'
import { useRouter } from 'next/router'
import Web3Modal from 'web3modal'

const client = ipfsHttpClient('https://ipfs.infura.io:5001/api/v0')

import {
  marketplaceAddress
} from '../config'

import NFTMarketplace from '../artifacts/contracts/NFTMarketplace.sol/NFTMarketplace.json'

export default function CreateItem() {
  const [fileUrl, setFileUrl] = useState(null)
  const [formInput, updateFormInput] = useState({ price: '', name: '', description: '' })
  const router = useRouter()

  async function onChange(e) {
    const file = e.target.files[0]
    try {
      const added = await client.add(
        file,
        {
          progress: (prog) => console.log(`received: ${prog}`)
        }
      )
      const url = `https://ipfs.infura.io/ipfs/${added.path}`
      setFileUrl(url)
    } catch (error) {
      console.log('Error uploading file: ', error)
    }  
  }
  async function uploadToIPFS() {
    const { name, description, price } = formInput
    if (!name || !description || !price || !fileUrl) return
    /* first, upload to IPFS */
    const data = JSON.stringify({
      name, description, image: fileUrl
    })
    try {
      const added = await client.add(data)
      const url = `https://ipfs.infura.io/ipfs/${added.path}`
      /* after file is uploaded to IPFS, return the URL to use it in the transaction */
      return url
    } catch (error) {
      console.log('Error uploading file: ', error)
    }  
  }

  async function listNFTForSale() {
    const url = await uploadToIPFS()
    const web3Modal = new Web3Modal()
    const connection = await web3Modal.connect()
    const provider = new ethers.providers.Web3Provider(connection)
    const signer = provider.getSigner()

    /* next, create the item */
    const price = ethers.utils.parseUnits(formInput.price, 'ether')
    let contract = new ethers.Contract(marketplaceAddress, NFTMarketplace.abi, signer)
    let listingPrice = await contract.getListingPrice()
    listingPrice = listingPrice.toString()
    let transaction = await contract.createToken(url, price, { value: listingPrice })
    await transaction.wait()
   
    router.push('/')
  }

  return (
    <div className="flex justify-center">
      <div className="w-1/2 flex flex-col pb-12">
        <input 
          placeholder="Asset Name"
          className="mt-8 border rounded p-4"
          onChange={e => updateFormInput({ ...formInput, name: e.target.value })}
        />
        <textarea
          placeholder="Asset Description"
          className="mt-2 border rounded p-4"
          onChange={e => updateFormInput({ ...formInput, description: e.target.value })}
        />
        <input
          placeholder="Asset Price in Bnb"
          className="mt-2 border rounded p-4"
          onChange={e => updateFormInput({ ...formInput, price: e.target.value })}
        />
        <input
          type="file"
          name="Asset"
          className="my-4"
          onChange={onChange}
        />
        {
          fileUrl && (
            <img className="rounded mt-4" width="350" src={fileUrl} />
          )
        }
        <button onClick={listNFTForSale} className="font-bold mt-4 bg-pink-500 text-white rounded p-4 shadow-lg">
          Create NFT
        </button>
      </div>
    </div>
  )
}

Thank you for the response. So what does this look like on the front end vs backend for the marketplace boilerplate? I found this code snippet of a create-item page for users. But, its using hardhat & imports like ethers & use router, which arent used in this moralis build. Is there a way to make this concept compatible with this boilerplate & the hooks you mentioned?

#4

hardhat is used here only to test/deploy contracts. The frontend of the marketplace dont use hardhat.

I didn’t understand your questions completely. If you want to add a form in the marketplace to interact with the database, I guess you need to create a separate page for this in your app.