Multi Text

Oh wow!! I’ve always been looking for something like this, but ended up with tables inside a text-field. I’ll use it for future development. Thanks a lot!

This extension looks awesome! Thank you for creating it. 😊

1) There’s a bug – incompatibility with other extensions of yours (I don’t know with which of them, that will take another hour).

It works if there’re no similar ext’s. If I use it & resave the Article after enabling other ext’s, the data disappear in the Article, Drop-Down doesn’t work at all – it has only the first line with “1”).

2) How to use it similarly {if demo_extended != ""}?

(or to embed the option)

Mark, this a great extension, thanks for sharing so many great mods and exts.

One problem - for posts that don’t have a custom field set up with a multi text field, I was getting an undefined index error - index: field line :388

My quick solution was to check the query results and bail out in the modify_post() function that was throwing the error. Not sure if there’s a better way… but fyi:

$field_data = "";
        $query = $DB->query("SELECT f.field_id FROM exp_weblog_fields AS f, exp_weblogs AS w WHERE w.weblog_id=".$_POST["weblog_id"]." AND f.group_id=w.field_group AND f.field_type='".$this->type."'");
        
        if ($query->num_rows == 0)
        {
            return;
        }

-mike

I’ve fixed the undefined index error. You can get the latest version up top. Also if you’re using the “file”, “multi drop-down list”, or “checkbox” extension you’ll have to update them to fix the problem with saving that you were seeing. You can find the updates at their respective posts:

Checkbox: http://ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/38843/ Multi Drop-down List: http://ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/38370/ Multi Text: http://ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/39153/ File: http://ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/38997/

Or you can find a list of them on my docs page: http://docs.markhuot.com

sigork, I was able to use the extension in a conditional to check if it was empty just as you said:

{if mtext!=""}...{/if}

did this not work for you?

I think I understood now.

If I have

<ul>
{members}
<li><strong>{col_1}</strong>: {col_2}</li>
{/members}
</ul>

I should use

{if members!=""}...{/if}

P.S. I tried it in such a way: {if col_1!=""}…{/if}

Thanks!

You got it place the following around your <ul>

{if members!=""}...{/if}

I haven’t come up with a way to check individual columns yet., but i’ll investigate.

I was happy to see that you had updated the extension to get rid of the error. Only now i’m experiencing a new one :(.

Notice: Uninitialized string offset: 0 in /opt/guide/www.domain.com/HTML/login/extensions/ext.multi_text.php on line 355

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /opt/guide/www.domain.com/HTML/login/extensions/ext.multi_text.php:355) in /opt/guide/www.domain.com/HTML/login/core/core.functions.php on line 293

thanks GBO. That should be fixed now.

Great! I’ll give it a shot. (great ext btw!)

UPDATE: Installed and no more errors!!! 😊

Awesome, thanks for the updates Mark. I’m using your extension to build a product variation select list (large, medium, small etc) with the label, value, and image name (already existing) each in their own column. Works awesome. Now if I may just see if can just figure out a way to make one column accept images either from a file-like interface or the build in EE uploader.

Thanks so much again for releasing these to the community, great stuff and great inspiration for what can be done with such a flexible system.

-mike

Hi there,

I wanted to use this plugin to create flash slideshows with images and captions. I set it up to have three columns: images (wich contains a url to the images), caption_1 and caption_2. now when i submit a new entry, only the content of {col_1} stays, the rest disappears …

Have you heard about this before? How can this be fixed ?

Thanks for pointing this out. It stemmed from an error when custom (per-field) settings were used. So I’ve fixed that and also fixed a bug that occurred when you tried to preview an entry (all your data would disappear!). Like always grab the latest version at the top of this thread.