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#1 2006-11-03 20:44:27
- progre55
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Custom Fields - More than 10
I need to expand the number of custom fields from 10 to 20. I have searched the forum and located Gerhard’s Hack that would seem to do the trick.
My issue is, where changing the .php files is very straight forward, and adding a row(s) to the textpattern table seems ok, I am uncertain regarding the pref table. Since I see no entries for the other custom fields in this table.
If anyone can give me insight I would greatly appreciate it. Also, if I am not consernced about language, do I need to follow the instructons on the language table.
any and all assistance is appreciated.
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#2 2006-11-04 15:59:54
- Mary
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Re: Custom Fields - More than 10
They’re named “custom_1_set”, etc.
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#3 2006-11-04 19:07:17
- progre55
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Re: Custom Fields - More than 10
Mary:
Why don’t I see the entries in the pref table? for 4.04. Am I looking in the wrong place ….
My fields looks like this:
prefs_id int(11) No 0 name varchar(255) No val varchar(255) No type smallint(5) UNSIGNED No 2 event varchar(12) No publish html varchar(64) No text_input position smallint(5) UNSIGNED No 0 progre55Offline
#4 2006-11-04 19:14:59
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#5 2006-11-05 01:19:56
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Re: Custom Fields - More than 10
The custom fields are rows within the prefs table.
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Re: Custom Fields - More than 10
i’ll check out marios plugin link, nevertheless i’ve got to have unlimited custom fields with gerhard’s method in txp 4.0.4 – more info here
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#7 2006-11-06 13:38:29
- progre55
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Re: Custom Fields - More than 10
Mary/jayrope:
Thanks for the input. Mary. telling me they were rows did the trick. I am still working my way around with mySQL, . I got it to work using Gerhard’s tutorial.
Mario’s plug in (although cool) in my opinion is tough for a client to work with if they are not technicaly savy.
One additional question regarding the custom fields, is there a way to wrap the context of them. The issue I have is that I am pulling the data that is in them from an article form. Although I have the column widths set, it appears to disregard that and just runs the text out. This does not occur when I use the body tag, so I am assuming t has something to do with custom tags.
Most of the time I have “short data”, but in the case where it is not (ie a long email address or url) I am runnin into issues since the place I am putting this on the layout is not very wide.
Any and all assistance is appreciated.
Thanks.
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Re: Custom Fields - More than 10
proge55,
use tables, divs, ul/li to wrap custom field data.
create a form, which displays the custom field data as wanted and use that as an alternative with the article tag in a page.
<txp:article form=“coolform” />
see example here
(most of the left side data there custom field information from a form)
Last edited by jayrope (2006-11-06 14:32:38)
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