New Extension: NB Show custom field data

Haha, yeah I can understand how it’s a unique situation. Basically I’ve got sports seasons (like Baseball 2009, Football 2009, etc.) and I have players assigned to those sports through a relationship field. I use the custom statuses of the sports season entry to turn on and off online voting as well as turning on and off other display features. It works pretty well to keep everything organized but it doesn’t require any custom fields to make it work, lol.

Since I had this lying around but still at a decent stage, I’m updating the extension to version 0.6. Here are the changes, including one that some may like, even though it’s pretty basic 😉

• Includes a few fixes for errors when Fieldframe field types have not yet been enabled
• No more need to specify upload directory for File display type
• New: option to limit the number of rows to show for FF matrix display type
• New: options to show FF matrix field names and labels above the matrix
• New: “Image” display type, based on upload folder containing at least one image file
• New: simple image thumbnail. Image size is set based on width in settings. This is only an image resize of the original image, no thumbnail file is created
• New: link to original file for Image and File display types
• Settings form cleanup: text in settings page should take less vertical space.

I should really add an auto-update feature… Probably in the next version 😊

Thanks for the update. The thumbnail creation seems to be working beautifully. I have a new error for you though. 😊

Notice: Undefined variable: imageUploadDirIds in .../system/extensions/ext.nb_show_custom_field_data.php on line 356

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in .../system/extensions/ext.nb_show_custom_field_data.php on line 356

shinka, thanks for pointing that out. Should be fixed now. Please re-download the extension from the first post and let me know if you still have the error.

Yup, that fixed it, thanks!

Updated the extension to 0.7, which adds support for the LG addon updater, which will check for new versions of the extension directly from the Control Panel.

Changelog: * Automatic version checking using LG Addon Updater, which must also be installed. * Added “check for update” setting * Some more cleanup

Got another bug. Now I’ve installed the Multiple Site Manager and added another site. I’m getting this error when I try to access the extension settings.:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function exif_imagetype() in /system/extensions/ext.nb_show_custom_field_data.php on line 911

shinka, can you check if the EXIF library is installed on your server? Go to Control Panel > Admin > Utilites > PHP Info …and check if EXIF Support is enabled. Also, what version of PHP are you using?

I’m not sure this has to do with the MSM, although I don’t have much experience with that module. Thanks.

phpinfo() is disabled on my client’s server unfortunately. PHP version is 5.2.6. Sorry I can’t be more helpful. :(

I thought this would be a 15-minute fix, but took much longer than I thought ^_^;. I upgraded the extension to 0.7.1, which should fix the exif error (actually, there shouldn’t be an error related to that anymore) as well as other small bugs that no one noticed 😉

If you have NB Show custom field data 0.7, the addon should automatically inform you of this newer version.

Fixes: * For better compatibility with certain server setups, changed PHP the command used to check if directory contains at least one image * Bug fixes and code simplification for determining image directories

Awesome, it worked! Thank you so much for putting up with my odd bugs!

My pleasure. Finding these odd bugs is important, so I appreciate you pointing them out. 😊

Thanks for adding LG Addon Updater support!

Hi,

I am interested to use this extension.

But I got this error message :

MySQL ERROR:

Error Number: 1054

Description: Unknown column 'ff_settings' in 'field list'

Query: SELECT field_id, field_name, field_label, group_id, field_type, ff_settings FROM exp_weblog_fields WHERE group_id='1' ORDER BY group_id

Can you tell mew what should I do? I’ve been seraching this forum and did google search, but couldn’t find the answer.