[archived] waz_admin_hide_fields

wazdog · 2005-05-08 08:00:47

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Name: waz_admin_hide_fields
Author: Joshua Jabbour
Created: 2005-05-08
Modified: 2005-05-09
Version: ~~0.1~~ ~~0.2~~ ~~0.2.1~~ 0.3
Download: ~~waz_admin_hide_fields~~ No longer available from this source

The plugin requires Rev. 198 or later which is when admin-side plugin support was added.

This plugin is still in an experimental state. Buyer beware and all. You’ve been warned!

This plugin allows you to hide fields from the “Write Article” page. (I’ve used it to hide the “Use Textile” and “Keywords” sections so as to not confuse the guy for whom I’m designing a Textpattern-powered site.)

Currently, you must edit the source of the plugin to specify which fields to hide. Hopefully I will add a preference page for the plugin soon, but for now, this will have to do. (It’s better than hacking the Textpattern code.)

In order to hide a field, change “1” to “0” in the array at the top of the plugin code. Do this by clicking “edit” on the plugins page. Do not change the names in this array, or the plugin will not work.

Note: Should now work for all languages. This plugin currently only works for the English (GB) and English (US) locales. Another thing I hope to remedy soon. Until then, you can do a little more editing to make it work for your locale. Just change the names in the array at the top to what is displayed in your language. Do not change the names in the array, or the plugin will not work.

Changelog:

0.3
Added the ability to hide a few more fields.
Locale support: Plugin should work no matter which language Textpattern is set to use.

0.2.1
Added “Recent Articles” link to the list of fields that can be hidden.

0.2
Users no longer have to manually type the names of fields they want hidden. Just set the preference to “0” for fields desired hidden. The source must still be edited though.

0.1
Initial release

Last edited by wazdog (2006-02-03 04:41:05)

chrisrhee · 2005-05-08 08:02:44

Haha, wow, I just went through and hacked up the TXP code to do this. I’ll have to try this out later. Thanks.

soulship · 2005-05-08 16:31:11

This is fantastic! Thanks!

wazdog · 2005-05-09 08:05:10

If anyone tries this out, please report back any errors. I haven’t tested in any PC browsers, nor Mac IE.

The plugin uses fairly basic Javascript Regular Expression support, but supposedly each browser implements RegEx’s a little differently. Surprise, surprise.

wazdog · 2005-05-09 11:14:46

Something weird has happened with this latest version. When the plugin is enabled, the text in the Body form textarea has strange linebreaks. It gets saved correctly, but just appears malformed.

I’d recommend not using this plugin until I can work out what the kink is.

Or try it, and see if you can find the bug. :)

Last edited by wazdog (2005-05-09 11:15:12)

alice_c · 2005-05-09 12:37:04

The plugin works like charme under firefox/win. But on Apple there are strange behaviours: on Safari 1.3 the plugin has no effect, the fields are still there. On Safari 1.2.4 the textarea in the middle is completly missing (as reported by my customer, haven’t seen it myself).

Last edited by alice_c (2005-05-09 12:37:24)

wazdog · 2005-05-09 12:41:28

That’s strange, it seemed to work in Safari 2.0.

Let me check again…

wazdog · 2005-05-09 14:00:22

OK, the new version (0.3) doesn’t work in Safari at all. This is because Safari doesn’t support callbacks in Javascript RegExp parsing. Which is what I used to make the script work for any localisation. (You can still download the 0.2.1 version and use it if you need to use Safari.)

As for my problems with strange formatting on the Body textarea in Firefox, I have no idea. Well, I have sortof an idea, but I’m not sure if it’s work-aroundable. And I have no idea how to find out more about it. So it may derail the plugin for now.

I have another idea how this can be handled way easier, so I may submit a small patch for the Txp core…

wazdog · 2005-05-09 14:48:19

Okay, I’ve changed the core Txp code to allow stuff like this super-easily. Just added a bunch of id’s where needed. (I’m a big fan of CSS.)

This solves every problem reported, and probably every one not reported. ;)

Anyway, I have a patch file. Don’t know if Dean or the devs would accept it and roll it into the core (it wouldn’t have any negative effect). But I went to the development Trac site, and couldn’t find out how to create a login identity, so I can’t submit a ticket. :(

Anyway, I don’t really have the time to do much more here. I’ll just have to use a hacked up Txp install for my site, and hope I can get my small changes added to Txp soon…

Last edited by wazdog (2005-05-09 14:49:39)

soulship · 2005-05-09 15:32:15

Are you going to post the code change somewhere? I for one would still like to play around with it.

alicson · 2005-05-10 03:03:51

Joshua, did you drop an email to Dean about this (since you can’t get into Trac)? would be a very nice addition/change to the core, I think.

wazdog · 2005-05-10 03:09:07

> alicson wrote:

> Joshua, did you drop an email to Dean about this (since you can’t get into Trac)? would be a very nice addition/change to the core, I think.

No, I didn’t have a chance yet. I spent way to long turning my original hacks into a plugin (it was fun though), and now am behind on the site I was doing this for. :)

I’ll drop him a note tonight, though. As I said, it’s a quick change…

I’ll also try to post my changes to the core here, in case you want to do the hacking yourself.

cheers,
j

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