Bt content slider and flexi's intro text

gkhn
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10 years 10 months ago #43651 by gkhn

Bt content slider and flexi's intro text was created 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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ggppdk
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10 years 10 months ago #43656 by ggppdk

Replied by ggppdk on topic Bt content slider and flexi's intro text

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

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