By chiggsy on

Hello all,
I have been playing around with flexinodes, and am pretty happy with how things have worked out. The only problem i have now is that i cant seem to find the naming convention to allow me to template the node form. I know that for the node itself it is node-flexinode-1.tpl.php.. but how can i change the layout of the node entry form?

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chiggsy commented

Ok, i've looked at the code involved here. it seems i should be able to just use something like :


 function phptemplate_flexinode-1_node_form($form) {
    return _phptemplate_callback('flexinode-1_node_form',array('form'=> $form));
}

and get a template for the node form. This works for forum node forms, and for blog node forms that i have seen ( replacing 'flexinode-1' with 'forum' or 'blog') . Tragically, php does not seem to accept a function name with 'flexinode-1' inside of it. I've looked on the forums, using search And google, searched with google overall, looked in the docs.. no clue. Yet I can't be the only one who wants the node input form not to be a long list of form elements... Has anyone encountered this problem?

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chiggsy commented

Ok, now what i've done is simply override the node_form function, and that gives me access to the node forms. Of course, it overrides all of the node forms, so one would think that i could simply test for $node->type, print form_render($form) for any form not matching my node type , and i would be off... still having some problems with this though ... like the title says ... this can't possibly be the best way to do it .. is it?

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Ogredude commented

Chiggsy, I'm quite interested in this idea as well. I've tried to figure it out myself, and ended up giving up completely and doing what I wanted to do in a totally different way that wasn't entirely satisfactory.

Unfortunately, I can't really give any advice on this, but I am definitely interested in a solution as well.

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marcoBauli commented

Same need on me chiggsy. Unfortunately i am not a developer, but i am more than happy to help as i can with testing and feedback!

PS: had a look in the feature requests for flexinode if there was something similar, and didn't find anything, so i am going to post one.

[posted a support request here]

Regards
marco

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chiggsy commented

Yeah i should have written my own custom node frome the beginning. i am doing it tonight :D