New FLEXIcontent field plugin: time

I developed a new field plugin that implements a simple time field. It's very basic, but has the major advantage of validating the time entered and ensuring it works.

The field consists simply of a text box where the user should put a time in the format HH:MM (no seconds, 24 hour time). Any input that doesn't match that format will be parsed and turned into that format; hopefully it should correctly interpret a range of invalid inputs (230, for example, will be correctly translated into 02:30). If it can't it will just set the time as 00:00.

For the reasons of the project I was working on, I removed the functionality that allows multiple values for the field (instead, we just use multiple fields; ie, a "start-time" field and an "end-time" field); if someone wants it, they can either add it themselves or contact me and I can try to find time to do it.

Download the plugin

To install it, just use the normal Joomla installer and then publish the plugin. You should then be able to add a new field of type "Time", and hopefully everything else will be clear.

coooooollllll
can you post some image of admin option ?
regards

But of course! Here's a screenshot of the item edit field for my 'event' item type, which uses the time field:



As you can see, I'm using the field for an event management (calendar) system I built with FLEXIcontent. Here's what that that system looks like from the front-end:



and with tooltip hover:



I'll be trying to package this up into something more portable (right now it relies on hard-coded field names and some other things that prevent it from being portable) and when I do, I'll post about it in these forums.

Andrew,

What are the "ds_store" files for?

You wrote a calendar for Flexicontent that works with your time field plugin. It needs some packaging up? Why not release it as-is and call it an alpha version?

Well done!

Are you able to push your calendar to an ical?

Many thanks!
-Bob

bbloom wrote: What are the "ds_store" files for?

Mac junk.
Just delete them from each sub-directory, and delete the _MACOSX folder.
Mac users have to do something special to create ZIPs without the junk files.

These files can sometimes cause Joomla extension installation issues.
(some long discussions in the Joomla 1.5 bug tracker)
So it is a good idea to delete them and repackage the ZIP file before installing.

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Ah, thank you kenmcd!

-Bob