temp FlexiMAX support thread.

Hello,

I've been playing with flexinode and I'm hoping that flexi-max will help me solve a problem. Say I have ten nodes, all in the category "food." When I click "food," it shows me the teasers for the nodes in that category. But they're a vertical list. I want the teasers to all show up in a table/gallery format so that many more can be shown without having to scroll.

My nodes consist of a title, a description, and an image. So I'd like the teaser to include just the title and image. That should display nicely in a gallery-style format. Is there a way I can modify the "fleximode teaser" layout to end up showing up like that?

Thanks!

I am attempting to use an image in FlexiMAX and there seems to be something wrong with that functionality. Or possibly something wrong with my site...

Let me know if anybody is able to use images in their Flexinodes with FlexiMAX operating.

Also, the {array} command is the default for the body, yet it just returns the text {array}.

I would love to use FlexiMAX for the site I am currently building. But I am having some of the same issues that others have had. The host I use has PHP 5 and while running the standard Flexinode module I never got the array_merge and implode warnings in the Settings -> Flexinode page. When I upgraded to FlexiMAX I did get those errors. Updating the module via the instructions on this page fixed that error. However it is still not working like it should (I think). I am trying to create a node type that contains these fields...

FlexiMAX Teaser:
Image
Text Area (named teaser)

FlexiMAX Node:
Image (same as in teaser)
Text Area (named information)

It seems to work but when I go to the edit content type page it only lists the text area content type on the node section and NOT the image type as well, like it should be. When I view a node created with this node type the picture shows up like it should in the teaser. But it does not show up in the node view:(

I am still a newbie at PHP but I am a quick learner. So if anyone has any information it would be greatly appreciated.

I am using Drupal 4.6.5 and version 1.8 FlexiMAX Module

Thanks in advance,
Shoshanna

I want all of the information in my rss feed, but abbreviated versions in the teaser. Will this be possible with fleximax?

Greetings,

I carefully read all threads about flexinode and found them very interesting. I recently implemented another theming idea for flexinode and would like to ask your opinion about it.

The idea is the following:
1. I patched flexinode_view with the following code:

	$ctype = flexinode_load_content_type($node->ctype_id);
	$node->body = theme('flexinode_'.$ctype->name, $node, $ctype->fields, $teaser, $page);

If theme_flexinode_{content type name} exists it will return the custom theming.

2. I am using content type name as an 'internal name', description - for 'visible name' (for menus and links), help text - for detailed description.

3. I also added an internal name column for flexinode fields to be able to refer them by name instead of ID.

My idea is not to make cool interface to customize node's layout without accessing the code. I thought that newbies won't do it and for professionals it may be not enogh.

In my case, there is almost no changes in the code and there is a flexible way for developers to customize node's layout by creating a module with theme_flexinode_xxx procedures. Here is an example of such one:

function theme_flexinode_book_product(&$node, &$fields, $teaser, $page)
{
	// field IDs
	$BOOK_IMAGE		=	"flexinode_". $fields['image']->field_id;
	$BOOK_AUTHOR	=	"flexinode_". $fields['author']->field_id;
	$BOOK_YEAR		=	"flexinode_". $fields['year']->field_id;
	$BOOK_PUBLISHER	=	"flexinode_". $fields['publisher']->field_id;
	$BOOK_ISBN		=	"flexinode_". $fields['isbn']->field_id;
	$BOOK_PAGES		=	"flexinode_". $fields['pages']->field_id;
	$BOOK_COVER		=	"flexinode_". $fields['cover']->field_id;

	if ($teaser == 1) {
		$desc	= $node->teaser;
		$image	= dirname($node->$BOOK_IMAGE->filepath)."/".IMG_THUMBNAIL."/". $node->$BOOK_IMAGE->filename;
	} else {
		$desc	= $node->body;
		$image	= $node->$BOOK_IMAGE->filepath;
	}
	$desc		= /*t("Description").*/"{$desc}";
	$image		= (!empty($node->price)) ? l_html(theme('image', $image, t('view product'), t('View this product details')), "node/".$node->nid)/*."<br/>"*/ : "";/*, 'class="picture"'*/

	$author		= "<label>".t("Author").":</label>&nbsp;". $node->$BOOK_AUTHOR;
	$publisher	= "<label>".t("Published").":</label>&nbsp;". $fields['publisher']->options[$node->$BOOK_PUBLISHER]. " (". $node->$BOOK_YEAR. ") ";
	$isbn		= "<label>".t("ISBN").":</label>&nbsp;". $node->$BOOK_ISBN;
... etc ...

What do you think about it ?

I am wondering if any thought has been given to expanding the flexibility of this patch to use the forms API to trigger different form functions.

For instance: a check box and value box for 'text field' and 'text area' to allow for limiting the text to a certain number of characters.

I think this funtionality would be very useful for a lot of different user generated content types.

thanks - Brandon

The first post in this thread states that "Kiev1 has updated his version to 4.7." Is it still up-to-date with CVS 4.7? Does it have any problems? Anyone have success with it on 4.7?

Thanks,
Michael
2 of my Drupal sites:
Small Farm Resource Center
Israel Travel Center

I'm a newb to Drupal and compared to other CMS' I've tried it does have a steep learning curve but I'm impressed with what it can do (once you work out how to do it!) Anyway, a quick question about FlexiMAX. How do you stop it inserting unwanted breaks inbetween fields? I've got a nice table-like CSS format that's rendered all but useless because of this.

okay, to get back to a topic i started a while back and then didn't comment on... how to get content for the block... you need the following function that uses the path to get the nid... then you can load the node and pretty much output whatever you want in the node to the side block. something similiar should be in the core, but with chx's plans with changing the path I don't know if this code will work in future versions. So using this code and a bit in the admin interface you could create some interface to allow creation of a block based on the content of a fleximax node.

function _getnid(){
    $path = drupal_lookup_path('source', $_GET['q']);
    if($path == false){
        $path = $_GET['q'];
    }
    $pathvars = explode('/', $path);
    if ($pathvars[0] == 'node'){
        $nid = $pathvars[1];
        return (int) $nid;
    }else{
    	return false;
    }	
}

I'm running 4.6.5 and php 4 and when I install this I can create the content type, but when I actually go to create - content - my flexinode content it lets me fill in the title but then just has the words 'array' (withouth the ' ') for each content type i have added.

Any ideas how to get this working?

I did some further searching and found some threads on issues with images and flexinode (one of my content types is an image) but even after removing that it still displays this error.

I tried to upgrade my testing server today and followed the upgrading instructions in the install file.

One of the mysql entries didn't seem to work. I manually ran

ALTER TABLE `flexinode_data` ADD field_descr varchar(255) NOT NULL default '' ;

and everything appears to be working ok.

I'm looking into fleximax as the engine to make a small database of sailing courses inside a non profit sailing school website.
I'll probably have to change the <div> to <span> in the module though to make it simpler to theme.

I'm also wondering if there could be a way of having some sort of basic theming selection in the fleximax document creation interface, at least regarding the structure of the theme, maybe along the lines of "should this be a block or inline?"... I'll see if I can come with any bright ideas there.

Next I'm going to have to poke at flexisearch. There doesn't seem to have been much work done there so far :(
I need it to be able to use more complex forms (either related to what's in the corresponding flexinodes or more constrained, such as single choice drop-down menus for multi-choice lists) and if possible make it useable as a sidebar block.