glz_custom_fields

Bloke · 2012-09-05 10:43:38

joebaich wrote:

The replies to his survey indicated that more than 90% of his plug-in users wanted GLZCF capabilities incorporated into Textpattern

For full disclosure, I should mention I was one of them :-)

Although still at an embryonic stage, my gut feeling is that we may just improve the database table structure, and put the infrastructure around to permit different data types (radio buttons, textareas, blah blah); probably along with some nice tag improvements and API to allow plugin authors to go to town without all the massive overhead that Gerhard had to go through to bring glz_cf to us. Whether we put a CF management interface into core is not something I have an answer to right now. It may be necessary, it may be prudent, it may be “easy”, so we might do it. And we’ll of course do it as quickly as we can.

In the meantime I’m not sure what to suggest. I don’t think it’s a huge job to patch glz_cf to work in 4.5.0. The fact that some non-text fields are failing is probably down to the new constraints built into core (just guessing). Raising a callback on the article constraints (article_ui / validate_save) and augmenting the allowable set may help (oh, and changing the plugin type to 5 of course). A hook for the article_ui / partials_meta callback is probably also needed. That should at least stop the javascript warnings when saving.

Same sort of thing applies to rss_unlimited_categories, btw.

redbot · 2012-09-05 11:41:09

Bloke wrote:

For full disclosure, I should mention I was one of them :-)

Wonderful news Bloke! (of course I was one of them too)

milosevic · 2012-09-05 11:56:02

Nice news!

Bloke · 2012-09-05 12:03:50

When Gerhard gets a spare moment to come up for air and he contacts us, we’ll hash out where the boundaries lie and then plan this thing out. It’ll be a rocky road, but I’m confident the end result will be more like this than this.

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joebaich · 2012-09-05 12:09:36

Bloke wrote

For full disclosure, I should mention I was one of them :-)

Me too, but I felt it may not have addressed the current requirement which, surely is to get glz_cf functionality into TXP 4.5 so that its take up into operational sites doesn’t remain stunted, especially given the security imperatives.

uli · 2012-09-05 12:09:52

redbot at work, Gerhard at work, glz_cf becoming core:
I’m so soothed, so tranquilized, almost sedated, I could sleep right n. …..___________

joebaich · 2012-09-05 12:16:09

Bloke wrote

I’m confident the end result will be more like this

Oh, that Nigella, she is truly something else ! Just a Google search happenstance on your part, Stef – or a deftly served bookmark ?

colak · 2012-09-16 17:16:28

2 questions

Is this plugin working on txp 4.5.1?
Is it compatible with rah external output plugin?

I am working on a project which I will need to create a custom xml page with lots of meta-data so the 10 custom_fields will not be enough.

THE BLUE DRAGON · 2012-09-16 20:40:37

colak wrote:

2 questions

Is this plugin working on txp 4.5.1?

Is it compatible with rah external output plugin?

I personally haven’t try it yet on 4.5
Yes it works great without any problems in rah_external_output forms/snippets

johnstephens · 2012-09-16 23:45:44

It hasn’t been updated for the 4.5 branch of Textpattern, but I’ve upgraded a few sites that depend on this plugin and I haven’t run into any problems yet— I guess I’m keeping my fingers crossed.

colak · 2012-09-17 05:59:38

Thanks guys

tye · 2012-09-17 06:16:23

Hey colak…. I couldn’t get it to install on a fresh txp 4.5 installation, I’d be interested to hear how you go

colak · 2012-09-17 11:52:18

tye wrote:

Hey colak…. I couldn’t get it to install on a fresh txp 4.5 installation, I’d be interested to hear how you go

Hi tye

I will, but don’t hold your breath. I am still working on the project which we hope to launch early next year.

uli · 2012-09-17 13:06:18

So, judging from Tye’s, John Stephen’s and photonomad’s posts, you can apparently at least install 4.4.1, set up glz_cf to use what will work under 4.5.0+ (text areas, text inputs, radios and select menus), and then upgrade TXP.

redbot · 2012-09-18 09:33:56

I’m surprised no one mentioned it till now.
Quoted from a mail sent by Gerhard:

…This evening, I open sourced the repository, and made a new txp-45 branch where all the integration work ought to go. I won’t get a lot more done tonight, but will pick this up as and when during this week. If any of you wish to contribute towards getting this to work on TXP 4.5, I will be delighted….

Great news, no?

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