Select MediaFront preset on a per-node basis

Travis,

Thanks for that. I didn't even think about that. I could even just put step 3 in the body of the node.

My current setup is w/ video & flowplayer modules w/ a small hack... I have it go along w/ a feature I built that makes it very simple for several clients to do this via node edit form and cck. The code above is a little over their heads. I may have to try and emulate it w/ a simple module. Thanks

I thought I would post some documentation for this. It is working pretty sweeeet and exactly the way I want it to (basically). I changed to 'needs review' in case you wanted to look it over and add it to the official docs.

Setup:

- Create a content type with a filefiled and image field like you normally would.
- create a mediafront profile like you normally would
- also create a field called "video_playerpreset" (so its final machine name will be "field_video_playerpreset")
- Make it a "text" field of "select" type
- In the "PHP code" section (below the "Allowed values list") add this code:

$presets = mediafront_preset_get_presets();
$options = array();
foreach( $presets as $preset ) {
   $options[$preset->name] = $preset->name;
}
return $options;

- install the custom_formatters module (http://drupal.org/project/custom_formatters)
- create a new formatter
- user the "advanced editor"
- use this code:

  /*
   *  set all the fields
   *  DO THIS:
   *  change "field_video_playerpreset" below to your preset field name
   *  change "field_video" below to your video filefield name
   *  change "field_video_thumb" below to your thumbnail imagefield name
   */
  $presetfield = 'field_video_playerpreset';
  $videofield = 'field_video';
  $thumbnailfield = 'field_video_thumb';

/*-------no need to edit below this line------------*/
  // Extract the preset name from the formatter name.
  $preset = $element['#node']->{$presetfield}[0]['value'];
  // Get the node for this player in JSON format.
  $params['nodeObj'] = mediafront_invoke_node( $element['#node'], array() );
  // Also set the nodeId for those who cannot just use the object.
  $params['node'] = $element['#node']->nid;
  // Set the video file
  $params['file'] = "/".$element['#node']->{$videofield}[0]['filepath'];
   // Set the thumbnail file
  $params['image']['path'] = "/".$element['#node']->{$thumbnailfield}[0]['filepath'];
  //check if there is a video uploaded
  if (isset($element['#node']->{$videofield}[0]['filepath'])){
  // Return the player.
  return mediafront_get_player( $preset, $params );
  }

- Modify the fields in the code to match your video, image, and preset fields
- save your new formatter
- Go to the "Display Fields" tab (yoursite.com/admin/content/node-type/[[yourcontenttypehere]]/display)
- select your new custom formatter for you video field
- hide (Don't exclude) the thumbnail field and preset field.

Done, create a new piece of content, upload video, thumbnail (optional) and select which preset you want for the video.

EDIT 7-29-10: changed up the custom_formatters code a littel so you just add the fields at the beginning (more newbie friendly). Also, added a check to see if there was actually a video added. If not, it does nothing instead of displaying "player not available"

Wow that was fast.

Thanks Man!

I've been testing this some more and I noticed that my: $params['file'] or $params['image'] don't actually do anything. Its the nodeObj that is actually supplying the video info to the player.

This is ok except if I have multiple imagefields... mediafront just picks the first one w/ an image for the video thumbnail.

So my question would be, how do I specify (in my formatter) what fields I want to use?