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#1 2008-11-07 19:06:09

THE BLUE DRAGON

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From: Israel

Registered: 2007-11-16

Posts: 637

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'custom' field for a file

Hey!
I need another field to the files page beside “Description”
to add the ID of an image to a file

Last edited by THE BLUE DRAGON (2008-11-10 11:40:25)

#2 2008-11-10 10:44:54

THE BLUE DRAGON

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From: Israel

Registered: 2007-11-16

Posts: 637

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Re: 'custom' field for a file

OK I found a way to use the Description field as “2” fields like
using the “ied_replacer” plugin

I have the JW FLV Media Player that play music/video from an XML page
and I want to just use the files page to upload a file
and point on the image ID#, track name & date
without a need to post another article

now the date and the track name it’s not a problem
(using the Date & Description fileds like daaa…)

but where to write the image id#?
so here is a trick:

1. download and install the plugin: ied_replacer

2. edit the plugin and add this line:
case 'description': $what=$GLOBALS['thisfile']['description']; break;
after:
case 'message': $what=$GLOBALS['thiscomment']['message']; break;

3. add this line:

'[title]' => 't.jpg</image>
<creator>'@

before:

);
extract(lAtts(array('what' => false), $atts));

and click save
(you can change “[title]” to any name you want)

4. create a page like this
(you can use file category and sort the list as you want):

<playlist version="1" xmlns="http://xspf.org/ns/0/">
	<trackList>
<txp:file_download_list form="files" limit="999" sort="created desc" />
	</trackList>
</playlist>

5. create a new form for files or use the default “files” like this:

<track>
<title>(<txp:file_download_created format="%d.%m.%y" />)</title>
<location>http://www.domain.com/files/<txp:file_download_name /></location>
<image>http://www.domain.com/images/<txp:ied_replacer what="description" /></creator>
</track>

6. upload a file and edit the Description field like this:
1[title]Artist - title

so now just change “1” to your image id#
and change “Artist – title” to the artist name and title
and that’s it!

your XML playlist page will look like this:

<playlist version="1" xmlns="http://xspf.org/ns/0/">
	<trackList>
<track>
<title>(10.11.08)</title>
<location>http://www.domain.com/files/filename.mp3</location>
<image>http://www.domain.com/images/1t.jpg</image>
<creator>Artist - Title</creator>
</track>
	</trackList>
</playlist>

and if you want to know why the hell I done all this?
becouse it will be much more easy for the client to manage the music/videos
only from the files page and will not need to open another article for each file
I hope you got the point and you can use it for other things for files
until a plugin for custom file fields will show up and save us all the trouble ;)