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#1 2008-01-25 01:46:33

fuls

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Registered: 2005-11-16

Posts: 117

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additional textarea

Is it possible to get another textarea field in article tab and not using the custom fields? I really need this for one project. I’ve already tried with another custom field below excerpt (changed varchar255 to text) but the character size is still limited, probably because I’m already using glz_custom_fields plugin. Are there any solutions?

#2 2008-01-25 02:13:19

jm

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From: Missoula, MT

Registered: 2005-11-27

Posts: 1,746

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Re: additional textarea

The body and exerpt textareas are the max you can have on a single write page. Try this though:

1. Create a cf called additional_id
2. Create a section called additional-info
3. Post whatever you need in an extra textarea in the body textarea
4. Take note of the article id
5. In your old section (articles or whatever – not “additional-info”), post your article
6. Insert the addition-info id as a cf

Then in your template, you can use article_custom with id. If you don’t want to write a little PHP, my little plugin, jmd_article_cf, will do it for you. Use it in your article form as <txp:jmd_article_cf form="some_article_form" cf="addition_id" />

Last edited by jm (2008-01-25 02:13:46)

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