Bt content slider and flexi's intro text

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10 years 10 months ago #43651 by gkhn
Hi there,

I am trying to get my flexi items to slide nicely on my homepage. I was going through the jed and came accross this extension bt content slider:
extensions.joomla.org/extensions/news-di...icles-showcase/19125

Unfortunatelly it can only get the source of the image from the intro of the article.

So my question is how can I point the source to any image field I need. I have a main product image that I need to use. It is an image/imagegallery field that is included in the item view.

If there is no quick solution to this, how can i set up and image to be in the "intro" so that images can be picked up by this extension.

thank you.

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10 years 10 months ago #43656 by ggppdk
Hello

-- this extension does not support getting image from a FLEXIcontent image field,


your alternatives, are

-1- create a FLEXIcontent Universal Content Module and set it to use carousel template

-2- modify this extension to use the image from the FLEXIcontent image field, which is not trivial, but not difficult either:
Code:
require_once (JPATH_ADMINISTRATOR.DS.'components/com_flexicontent/defineconstants.php'); JTable::addIncludePath(JPATH_ADMINISTRATOR.DS.'components'.DS.'com_flexicontent'.DS.'tables'); require_once("components/com_flexicontent/classes/flexicontent.fields.php"); require_once("components/com_flexicontent/classes/flexicontent.helper.php"); require_once("components/com_flexicontent/models/".FLEXI_ITEMVIEW.".php"); $itemmodel_name = 'FlexicontentModelItem'; $itemmodel = new $itemmodel_name(); $item_arr = array(445,567); // This should be DIFFERENT in your extension $img_field_name = 'myfieldname'; foreach( $item_arr as $item_id ) { $item = $itemmodel->getItem($item_id, $check_view_access=false); $item_link = JRoute::_(FlexicontentHelperRoute::getItemRoute($item->slug, $item->categoryslug)); $items = array(&$item); FlexicontentFields::getFields($items); $img_url = FlexicontentFields::getFieldDisplay($item, $img_field_name, 'display_large_src'); ... }


If a developer is given the above then he/she can easily intergrate it into the BT extension

Regards


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10 years 10 months ago #43685 by gkhn
yes flexicontents slider is much more flexible, stable and works better on mobiles.. Thank you!

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10 years 10 months ago #43693 by ggppdk
Hello

it also has the important feature to have a powerful selection of items (various SCOPEs)


-- Flexicontent is Free but involves a big effort on our part.
Like the our support? (for a bug-free FC, despite having a long list of functions) Like the features? Like the ongoing development and future commitment to FLEXIcontent?
-- Add your voice to the FLEXIcontent JED listing with a 5-star...

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