Flexicontent Image field updated to Joomla Article Image

Dear all,

I'm using this fantastic component for my project currently, but I have met a problem which I couldn't get any solution after searching this forum or the website documentation, hence appreciate if kind souls in this forum could assist.

I can't use Joomla's Article Image with Joomla's media manager, due to security reason where users' upload should be contained in designated folder, just as Flexicontent works with its Image Upload field.

However, I need the Joomla's Article Image to be updated according to Flexicontent's Image Upload field, when frontend form is submitted by the user. This is needed because I'm using Widgetkit with "Joomla" as its content provider source, so Widgetkit could work if the Joomla's Article Image is updated accordingly.

There is no event hook API in Flexicontent that I could use, appreciate if anyone could point out any feasible solution. Thank you!

Regards,
Devcon

Hello

inside our plugins methods onBeforeSaveField,
we can add an event hook and that live in Joomla sytem plugin

passing to it the field / item data

e.g. call the new event
onBeforeSaveFieldFC

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About updating Joomla's Full / Intro Article Images automatically from a FLEXIContent field
yes this make sense and sounds like something people will find usefull
and seems very easy to add, so please open a new issue here about :
github.com/FLEXIcontent/flexicontent-cck/

But please describe how this will work
e.g. The first image added will become "intro" and the 2nd image added will become "full"

will have it

Also maybe you do not need a specific field
you can use the general event
(for example .., see plugin
plugins/flexicontent/flexinotify.php
)

Just in case of image field there is some more complex manipulation
-- like the small / medium / large thumbnail generation
and it is best not to "reverse engineer" / guess their paths

so please answer me what the Intro / Full image should be ?
i think my above comment to use 1st image for intro and 2nd image for Full was wrong !!!

Instead this is more proper
For both Intro and Full images will would use the 1st image !!
- we just need 2 new parameters

Use 1st image (thumbnail) as Intro:
- No
- small
- medium
- large
- original

Use 1st image (thumbnail) as Full:
- No
- small
- medium
- large
- original

right ??

Dear Georgios,

Thank you for your response!

Yes, you are right, this will be useful for people who wish to use other Joomla components, which works with Joomla's com_content.

The idea is to have Flexicontent (FC) runs its Image or Gallery plugin, to upload the user's selected image to the folder, hence "onAfterSaveItem" could call Joomla com_content API to store this uploaded image (back in the database as JSON) just as how com_content will store it.

I think it will be better to have an option with FC Image or Gallery plugin, for the administrator to choose, when under the tab "Values", option "Acts as gallery" is "No", this image will be for:
1) Intro article image
2) Full article image
3) Both intro and full article image will use this image

Does this make sense? If yes, I shall open a new issue at Github, as you suggested. Thank you.

Hello

i think for consistence and less complicated UX , we should always the first image
in category views we already use the 1st image of the field

so i would stick to my initial suggestion in fields configuration :

Use 1st image (thumbnail) as Intro:
- No
- small
- medium
- large
- original

Use 1st image (thumbnail) as Full:
- No
- small
- medium
- large
- original


About

Could call Joomla com_content API to store this uploaded image (back in the database as JSON) just as how com_content will store it.

we already have code that updates these in image field, so we will just re-use it

I suppose this will be releasing for v3.2

Has opened an issue in Github. github.com/FLEXIcontent/flexicontent-cck/issues/742

Thanks for your response, Georgios!