glz_custom_fields

gerhard · 2010-01-24 15:52:56

glz_custom_fields v1.2.4 has just been released, let me know if you’ve donated but haven’t received the e-mail with the new version.

gerhard · 2010-01-25 05:18:49

speeke wrote:

I’m currrently adding some old posts to my site, and I’m not able to select the date from the datepicker when formatted as yyyy-mm-dd. Only when I change the format to dd/mm/yyyy does the calendar allow me to select dates in the past.

You must make sure that Start date has the same format as Date format, otherwise things will break. I realize that this is a gotcha, but I didn’t want to write extra JS to take care of this situation. It seems that the message saying MUST be the same as “Date format” is not working very well since you’ve missed it, so I’ll think of something else.

candyman · 2010-01-25 05:36:32

Many thanks for this major release gerhard.
I’ll check the new features in the next days.

gerhard · 2010-01-25 05:45:21

speeke wrote:

No, it’s very clear. I just didn’t see it this time round, and now feel a little stupid :| Thnx!

No no, if you haven’t spotted it first time, it wasn’t obvious enough. Code is poetry and this issue that you had points to a bad “rhyme”, so I’m going to improve it : ).

Alessandro, you’re welcome, waiting for your feedback!

Last edited by gerhard (2010-01-25 19:48:03)

mrdale · 2010-01-25 17:30:48

le Fantastique!

mlarino · 2010-01-27 12:14:34

Hi, my left column is full of custom fields, and its really really long, specially when I have a long list of checkboxes.

I wanted to make one of my custome fields (the list of checkboxes) a toggle, just like the other togles in the write tab.
Any clue where can I start looking? I am a little lost here.

Thanks!

redbot · 2010-01-27 13:39:09

mlarino wrote:

Any clue where can I start looking? I am a little lost here.

If you have a basic jquery knowledge you can easily accomplish this using “bot_write_tab_customize”. Here is a similar case

aslsw66 · 2010-01-27 22:12:41

I have successfully used this plugin in to add a specific date and time for events. I didn’t want to use the publishing fields, mainly so I could keep all of the fields relating to article content to the custom fields.

Now I’m struggling to actually use the data. For example, how can I use article_custom to get a list of articles with the custom field match today’s date? Or how can I get a list of articles with the custom fields after today’s date?

gerhard · 2010-01-30 09:00:01

aslsw66 wrote:

Now I’m struggling to actually use the data. For example, how can I use article_custom to get a list of articles with the custom field match today’s date? Or how can I get a list of articles with the custom fields after today’s date?

Let me introduce the super awesome smd_if . I’m mentioning it here (bottom headline), on the glz_custom_fields wiki. This is an example where my-date is the custom field and I want all articles which are after today’s date:

<txp:smd_if field="my-date" operator="gt" value="30/01/2010">
   <txp:permlink><txp:title /></txp:permlink>
</txp:smd_if>

smd_if is very powerful, refer to plugin’s help for more examples (passing date variable from PHP etc.). As a tip, you need to make sure the date variablle has the same formatting as your custom field’s date format. For the above example, you would want something like:

date('%d/%m/%Y')

gerhard · 2010-01-30 09:04:34

speeke wrote:

I’ve upgraded to your latest release, and I’m still having the same problem I alluded to in a previous post.

Hmmm, I cannot reproduce this issue. Can you e-mail me a login so that I can take a look?

aslsw66 · 2010-01-30 18:11:23

This date comparison is failing for me. I have set up a custom date field (custom field 2 is called “date”) and there is only one article with an entry of “24/01/2010” in this field.

If I use the “equals to” operator, I get nothing:

<txp:smd_if field="date" operator="eq" value="24/01/2010">

If use the “greater than” operator on any value, I get the article returned eg:

<txp:smd_if field="date" operator="gt" value="25/01/2010">

I assume that this is because the custom field’s value is stored as text only, and a comparison operator will try to use the ascii value of the text.

I guess I will have to start playing around with setting the variables to their true types first.

Bloke · 2010-01-31 10:22:54

aslsw66 wrote:

I assume that this is because the custom field’s value is stored as text only, and a comparison operator will try to use the ascii value of the text.

Perhaps yes. If they’re both text, a date comparison will probably fail because, for example, 24/01/10 is “greater than” 01/02/10. The best thing to do for date comparisons is to convert them both to a known format; the easiest being the UNIX timestamp. If you happen to have smd_calendar installed you can use smd_cal_now to reformat the custom field to a timestamp (format="%s").

For the value attribute you might have to resort to PHP: value='<txp:php>echo strtotime("24/10/2010")</txp:php>’

Hope that helps.

Last edited by Bloke (2010-01-31 10:40:14)

aslsw66 · 2010-01-31 12:02:29

I finally figured this out using the following:

<txp:variable name="thisday" value='<txp:php> echo date("d/m/Y");</txp:php>' />
<txp:variable name="hasarticle" value='<txp:article_custom date=''<txp:variable name="thisday" />'' form="today_list" />' />
<txp:if_variable name="hasarticle" value="">
... and then display some content depending on the value

But, after all of that, I realised that this will continue to cause some problems as I try to get article lists based on sorting a custom date field. Is it possible to format the date as a timestamp before it is entered into the database, so that this sort of sorting is supported?

Otherwise, I might have to resort to use the article date (ie. posting in the future). If I can rearrange the admin fields to make the date more obvious and also add a date picker it will be neater. But I do have a fundamental issue with using the article date for a different purpose (ie. the date of an event relates to the content, not the article itself).

Bloke · 2010-01-31 12:11:36

aslsw66 wrote:

I do have a fundamental issue with using the article date for a different purpose (ie. the date of an event relates to the content, not the article itself).

Are you using smd_calendar? That overcomes the issue by allowing you to specify a custom field (or two) to hold the date of the event, leaving the article’s timestamp alone. When I get round to fixing smd_calendar to allow distinct times as well as dates, this will become even better.

Also it helps with “how can I use article_custom to get a list of articles with the custom field match today’s date?” by employing smd_article_event which is very much like article_custom but can filter using your custom fields, among other things.

aslsw66 · 2010-01-31 13:23:16

Are you allowed to “plug” your own plugin in another author’s support thread?!

OK, you’ve got me – I will have a play with the calendar. I take it this means I can use glz_custom_fields to populate the fields, and smd_calendar to use them at the front-end.

I do need to insert times for events, but don’t really need to sort on times – it would be nice for presentation purposes, but we don’t often get more than one event on a day.

Watch out for my questions over on the smd_calendar thread…

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