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#961 2011-11-08 09:47:38

Algaris
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From: England
Registered: 2006-01-27
Posts: 535

Re: glz_custom_fields

Thank you redbot. That’s very good to know.

Gerhard: Would it be possible for you to add an option when creating a new Text Area Custom Field to specify its text length? This would save me having to jump into PHPMyAdmin. I’m always afraid I’ll break something if I make a mistake while editing the tables.

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#962 2011-11-08 12:05:30

Algaris
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From: England
Registered: 2006-01-27
Posts: 535

Re: glz_custom_fields

I went into the Textpattern table to edit custom_10 which is the custom field I’m using for my text area. In PHPMyAdmin I changed the Type entry from VARCHAR to LONGTEXT and hit save. I then received the following error message which seems to be very similar to the error message I originally had when I created the text area using glz_custom_fields.

Error
SQL query: 
ALTER TABLE `textpattern` CHANGE `custom_10` `custom_10` LONGTEXT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci NOT NULL DEFAULT '' 
MySQL said:  
#1101 - BLOB/TEXT column 'custom_10' can't have a default value

I also tried to change the value for custom_2 as redbot suggested and received the same error message.

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#963 2011-11-08 12:11:42

Bloke
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From: Leeds, UK
Registered: 2006-01-29
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Re: glz_custom_fields

Algaris wrote:

  1. - BLOB/TEXT column ‘custom_10’ can’t have a default value

You need to remove the DEFAULT '' from the end of the query to get rid of the error. So if you have a default value set for that column in phpMyAdmin, clear it before saving the changes.


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#964 2011-11-08 12:20:29

Algaris
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From: England
Registered: 2006-01-27
Posts: 535

Re: glz_custom_fields

Thank you Bloke. The Dafault entry was set to As defined from its drop down. When I changed it to None everything worked.

I guess this means for each custom text field I have on the Write tab I’ll have to edit its entry in PHPMyAdmin.

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#965 2011-11-08 13:40:19

Algaris
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From: England
Registered: 2006-01-27
Posts: 535

Re: glz_custom_fields

One more quick question. If I wanted to style a custom field I’ve created with glz_custom _fields (such as increasing its width and height) is there an easy way to do so with CSS?

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#966 2011-11-08 19:27:24

maruchan
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From: Ukiah, California
Registered: 2010-06-12
Posts: 590
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Re: glz_custom_fields

Install the bot_wtc plugin. It allows you to assign each custom field a CSS class.

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#967 2011-12-08 21:03:03

Mats
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From: Sweden
Registered: 2011-01-16
Posts: 30
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Re: glz_custom_fields

Hi Gerhard

I donated earlier today, any chance you can send me the link to download?

Thanks,
Mats

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#968 2012-01-24 06:42:51

jstubbs
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Registered: 2004-12-13
Posts: 2,395
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Re: glz_custom_fields

Been looking through this thread to find out how to find the value of a select type of custom field – say for example we have select options One, Two and Three within a custom field named Content_type.

How to display content if the value ==Three? Something like this:

<txp:if_custom_field name="Content_type{Three}"> 
	<div class="image"><txp:body /></div>
	</txp:if_custom_field>

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#969 2012-01-24 06:55:16

johnstephens
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From: Woodbridge, VA
Registered: 2008-06-01
Posts: 999
Website

Re: glz_custom_fields

<txp:if_custom_field name="Content_type" value="Three"> 
	<div class="image"><txp:body /></div>
</txp:if_custom_field>

I can’t remember using the select field for something right now, but I think this is how the if_custom_field tag works.

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#970 2012-01-24 09:18:32

jstubbs
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From: Hong Kong
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Re: glz_custom_fields

Oh boy I completely forgot about the value="" check in the if_custom_field tag….!!

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#971 2012-02-19 15:00:28

philwareham
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From: Haslemere, Surrey, UK
Registered: 2009-06-11
Posts: 3,564
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Re: glz_custom_fields

Just a suggestion for an improvement:

Although you can override the default install directory (/plugins) for certain glz_custom_fields files (I use /textpattern/glz_custom_fields as I like to keep things out of the root directory as much as possible) the plugin still looks for some of it’s files within the default /plugins folder.

Need a way to override that really, at the moment I have to manually edit the plugin code to point to my preferred directory.

Cheers,
Phil

Last edited by philwareham (2012-02-19 15:01:03)

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#972 2012-03-13 16:38:14

frickinmuck
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Registered: 2008-05-01
Posts: 118

Re: glz_custom_fields

I’m using this custom script to input categories as options on a select menu. How do I change it to a multi-select?

<?php
function list_clients($custom_field, $custom_id, $custom_value) {
    $categories = array();
    $query = safe_rows('name, title', 'txp_category', 'parent like "client"');
    foreach ($query as $category)
        $categories[$category['title']] = $category['title'];
    return glz_selectInput($custom_field, $custom_id, $categories, $custom_value, "");
}
?>

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