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#1 2006-11-11 22:36:10

johan_vm

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From: Antwerp, Belgium

Registered: 2005-04-24

Posts: 30

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Custom Inputforms (Custom Content Types)

Hi,

I’ve been using TXP for a while on my site: http://www.onrails.be .
I’m extremely pleased with it, but at the moment I’m working on a bigger site:
A community website for my brother’s track&field club.

I’d like to use TXP as a backend for it, but I need some more features than a standard TXP install.

Would it be possible to create some sort of custom Inputforms,
where you could have a form like

*athlete
*birthdate
*club
*info

instead of the standard

*title
*article

Could i use a mod to accomplish this? A plugin? Hack TXP?

(I’m actually testing Drupal at the moment. I’m looking for something like the Flexinode module. I like the features drupal offers, but I really dislike it’s look&feel, it’s complexity,…)

thanks in advance,

Johan.

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#2 2006-11-12 00:55:51

zem

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-04-08

Posts: 2,579

Re: Custom Inputforms (Custom Content Types)

First entry in this FAQ search.

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#3 2006-11-12 09:37:15

johan_vm

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From: Antwerp, Belgium

Registered: 2005-04-24

Posts: 30

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Re: Custom Inputforms (Custom Content Types)

Thanks!

That’s almost what I’m looking for.
It’s a shame the custom fields are limited to 255 characters, and that they can’t contain a picture.

regards,

Johan.

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#4 2006-11-12 09:46:20

johan_vm

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From: Antwerp, Belgium

Registered: 2005-04-24

Posts: 30

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Re: Custom Inputforms (Custom Content Types)

By the way: I noticed you developed quite a lot of TXP-plugins (I visited yor website).
Since I will probably need a lot of plugins for the new site I’ll be developing,
I was wondering how I could find the best plugins for the job:

• Is there a way to find out which plugins are the most used, the most downloaded, the best rated,…? It’s a shame textpattern.org doesn’t offer this functionality.
• Is there a way to see if a plugin is still actively developed/maintained? A lot of times I encounter dead links, text that states that the functionality of a certain plugin is the same as another plugin (which is better…).

Or is the only way to learn more about good plugins the forum?
I could ask questions like:

what’s the best plugin for incorporating Flickr images into your site, and show them as a gallery?
what’s the best plugin for using ajax effects (lightbox,…)?

regards,

Johan.

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#5 2006-11-12 11:35:38

soulship

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From: Always Sunny Charleston

Registered: 2004-04-30

Posts: 669

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Re: Custom Inputforms (Custom Content Types)

Johan,

Here’s afew to get you going.

It’s a shame the custom fields are limited to 255 characters

Pack multiple values into each of the custom fields with this plugin.

what’s the best plugin for incorporating Flickr images into your site, and show them as a gallery?
what’s the best plugin for using ajax effects (lightbox,…)?

Try wet_for_each_image

and

hak_article_image

For flickr there’s this

Jamie

Last edited by soulship (2006-11-12 11:36:16)

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#6 2006-11-20 14:08:49

Ace of Dubs

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Registered: 2006-04-17

Posts: 446

Re: Custom Inputforms (Custom Content Types)

johan_vm wrote:

It’s a shame the custom fields are limited to 255 characters, and that they can’t contain a picture.

There is a simple hack to overcome this limitation:

http://forum.textpattern.com/viewtopic.php?id=17545

Scroll down to the bottom

:)

Last edited by Ace of Dubs (2006-11-20 14:09:05)