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Hello super joomlers!
A joomler friend asked me: "how to add $this->item->jcfields in a core module like mod_articles_latest"
I accepted the challenge and share with this post the results to the Joomla! community, the joomlers family.
Get right into the code well commented and ready to use.
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Hello super joomlers!
I know, I know. You will likely tell me that there will be conflicts by using custom fields by name because names are not necessarily unique.
But there is a solution for that. Using a naming convention for your custom fields. For example for article content custom fields you could use something like article-my-field.
Besides this convention. You can use this oneliner sample code rather than trying to memorize custom fields id by heart even if we might have written the ids down on a document it's a painful task.
Here is an attempt to simplify this task.
Read more: TIPS - Using custom fields by name
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Hello super joomlers!
This time, I will show you a simple code snippet to copy paste in your template overrides of com_content (articles). For those of you who want to add custom fields in their favourite templates there are 2 snippets to add. Here they are.
Read more: TIPS - Custom fields for non-developer
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Hello super joomlers!
I know, I know. Multi what? What is that entangled weird title? Fear not! Delicious meal is coming. Everything going be crystal clear soon. Bear with me. Since Joomla! 3.7 custom fields was merged into Joomla! core. Custom fields was originally a work from Allon Moritz (@laoneo). He decided to gave it to Joomla! community. Big thanks to him and all the Joomla! team and contributors. What you need to know is that core components like com_content (articles) support custom fields out-of-the-box. But how about third-party extensions that we as developers want to make? We want custom fields too for our extensions even more.
Read more: EXTENSION - Multi-context custom fields
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How to use custom fields in a multilingual context
Or how to translate some parts of your custom fields.
Read more: TIPS - Languages translation strings usable in custom fields
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Let's say you want to add a calendar custom field for some event (business, party, meeting)
and you want to have a default datetime for the event that is let's say 3 days from now.
The start date is now.For just 3 days it seems easy to calculate in your head,
but what if you don't want to bother do that and rather say something like:
Hey Joomla! I wanna 3 days from now please. Can you do that? Sure.
- Create two custom fields of type calendar: start-date and end-date
- Set default for start date by typing now
- Set default for en d date by typing now +3 days
That's it change and experiment with other values it should work.
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Hello! Super Joomlers
The concept of "Dynamic Custom Field Inference"
Attempt to "infer" the type of custom field to dynamically create based on cached api
Dynamic What ? Just think of it as "Choco Fields!" Chocolate Custom Fields, synthaxic sugar around custom fields creation wrapped around cached api ice cream
Do you think it's April's Fool Day? Of course! But this extension is real.
Meet "Choco Fields"