AllNews Module - FLEXIcontent support! (v 2.5.5)

hello a new idea for field image
in basique field image we have 3 dimensons, it's possible to choose on this too ?
(we select the id and the dimension, the same thing in the default template option)

Hi Again Olinad,

I couple of more ideas to possibly add to your to do list.. (I hope you don't mind all the input)

1. Is there a way to pull through the category name? If I am displaying "Latest" items from multiple cats, it would be good to be able to have the Category displayed. This became apparent when I went to display 5 new items.. I have two categories - One is Best Practice Articles, and the other is Webinars. When a new articles is written on a particular subject, the company also holds a Webinar on the topic. Both items have similar names and therfor look similar in the list. Having a category (perhaps even hyperlinked ) would help this and I think might be useful in general.

2. This is just something I have added.. With the images for Hits and Rating, I added a link with a title around the image to have a title popup on mouseover to tell users what the icons mean.
eg: <img src="modules/mod_allnews/hit.png"/>

I am sure it could be done in a smarter way (JS - onmouseover etc ) not requiring a link but this was quick and easy.

3. I'm not sure if you would call this a bug, however as I mentioned before, the module, as it is using the com_content Section/Cat structure, it drops out of SEF when you visit the links created. This didn't seem like a big deal to me until I hit a point where I had anchors in my article.. When you visit the page through the FC structure, the anchors work.. when the SEF fails, the anchors no longer work and trys to resolve to /index.php#anchorname.

I know that this is something that you said you where not sure how to do.. and I have no idea either but I am hoping that perhaps someone out there does.

I downloaded the FlexiCloud Module to have a look through the code and see if I could work out anything... but it's way over my head but it looks like it does things slightly different so it might be worth a look. I know it would make the module FlexiContent only, but I don't that that is such a bad thing. I will keep looking at it over the next few days as I have run into the same issue with the "article list" mod I am trying to use and would love to work it out for that as well. Time to learn REAL php and sql rather than just cutting and pasting I guess

Again, thanks for your efforts and good luck with the study.

micker wrote: hello a new idea for field image
in basique field image we have 3 dimensons, it's possible to choose on this too ?
(we select the id and the dimension, the same thing in the default template option)

Mmh... isn't it enough that you can choose the image display dimensions (width and height)?

status101 wrote: Hi Again Olinad,

I couple of more ideas to possibly add to your to do list.. (I hope you don't mind all the input)

1. Is there a way to pull through the category name? If I am displaying "Latest" items from multiple cats, it would be good to be able to have the Category displayed. This became apparent when I went to display 5 new items.. I have two categories - One is Best Practice Articles, and the other is Webinars. When a new articles is written on a particular subject, the company also holds a Webinar on the topic. Both items have similar names and therfor look similar in the list. Having a category (perhaps even hyperlinked ) would help this and I think might be useful in general.

I hadn't thought about it, but it seems useful... coming soon

2. This is just something I have added.. With the images for Hits and Rating, I added a link with a title around the image to have a title popup on mouseover to tell users what the icons mean.
eg: <img src="modules/mod_allnews/hit.png"/>

I am sure it could be done in a smarter way (JS - onmouseover etc ) not requiring a link but this was quick and easy.

I actually did it in my modification of the mod_globalnews module I was working on before I started working on AllNews, but I didn't put it there as I wanted to put a field to make the user choose what to show there... and I actually forgot after leaving that. Coming soon.

3. I'm not sure if you would call this a bug, however as I mentioned before, the module, as it is using the com_content Section/Cat structure, it drops out of SEF when you visit the links created. This didn't seem like a big deal to me until I hit a point where I had anchors in my article.. When you visit the page through the FC structure, the anchors work.. when the SEF fails, the anchors no longer work and trys to resolve to /index.php#anchorname.

I know that this is something that you said you where not sure how to do.. and I have no idea either but I am hoping that perhaps someone out there does.

I downloaded the FlexiCloud Module to have a look through the code and see if I could work out anything... but it's way over my head but it looks like it does things slightly different so it might be worth a look. I know it would make the module FlexiContent only, but I don't that that is such a bad thing. I will keep looking at it over the next few days as I have run into the same issue with the "article list" mod I am trying to use and would love to work it out for that as well. Time to learn REAL php and sql rather than just cutting and pasting I guess

Again, thanks for your efforts and good luck with the study.

Will look into this, but can't guarantee much...

hello manu as implement a crooping systeme for image field for thumbmail
it's more interesting then resizing
but if you prefer to dev this directly in the module ??

thanks for your works !

Well with the watermark option set to on the module loads the images that FLEXIcontent has already cropped... I dunno why it doesn't work on your system. May I take a look someday? I'd need looking at administration and phpmyadmin. Won't change anything, just create a Special-limited itemid and try some changes to the module there...
I don't think I'll be able to do that this week but if you agree I'll let you know when.

To-Do List added to the first post, the points that weren't requested by you are things I need and would like implementing in my next website. I already know how to do them, but I'll probably wait for the module to be more stable before starting to work on them.