Flexinode: new content types

Last modified: January 6, 2008 - 01:30

The flexinode module allows administrators to create simple new content types. Administrators find it very useful to create new types of content without having to program a new content module, easily combining fields like dates, links, images, etc. to create their custom content types.

When creating a new flexinode, administrators are presented with a flexinode form to create their new content type. Once administrators have created their flexinode they can accept the format or choose to theme the content type to change it's presentation. For users, creating content that is a flexinode is just like adding other content. The flexinode content type will show up alongside all normal content.

A flexinode is built with fields. Fields are separate (meta-) data entities, stored in the database and loaded into the flexinode when presented to the user.
In a theme you can move around these pieces of data, or alter the look of them.
Flexinode comes with a list of fields by default, but it has many more contributed fields in a directory called 'contrib'. In order to activate them, you must copy them (e.g. with FTP) into the root directory of your flexinode module.

You can

  • create a flexinode content type at administer >> content >> content types and select add content type.
  • create content >> add type.
  • administer flexinode at administer >> settings >> flexinode.
  • file issues, read about known bugs, and download the latest version on the Flexinode project page

Flexinode once you are working with Drupal 5 or higher

tsaorin - July 29, 2008 - 07:25

If you have been working with flexinode in real websites, you may have a problem with migrating it to Drupal 5 or higher, due to the fact that there is no new versions. The CCK module is better and it's suitable for more complex types of content, and it's connected with de Views Module.

The main problem is than I've found difficult to export from Flexinode to CCK.

These links may be useful for you:

Flexinode to CCK using Drupal 5.x (Disobey.com) http://www.disobey.com/node/1761
Flexinode to CCK Converter (Module) http://drupal.org/project/flexiconvert
$100 Bounty: Convert Flexinode nodes to CCK nodes (Drupal.org): http://drupal.org/node/179842
Node Import (Modules) http://drupal.org/project/node_import

 
 

Drupal is a registered trademark of Dries Buytaert.