TOPIC: Custom fields

Hi Daniel,

Thank you for the work you and your team have put into this. I'm very happy about my purchase.

I have a quick question - the option to add additional fields or custom fields was put in motion since DEC 2010 (a 4 hour job as you put it) but its been months and the option to insert additional fields or custom fields hasn't been implemented. I understand you think there are other more important features to be had but when do you think we can realistically have this feature?

And once we have this feature will the new version play well with the old version of hotspots?

thank you.

Hey Mustafa,
Did I really said 4 hours? Was I really talking about giving the option to add custom fields?

Anyway, I was wrong. Actually I've been researching the problem (only for research I've spent 2 days) and I'm going to implement this design pattern.
secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/E...ttribute-value_model

Now, I don't know why I have said 4hours but this is completely wrong. It should work on category level, so different categories could have different fields etc... There are a lot of things to be taken into consideration.

Anyway... Soon, I'll be only concentrated on the compojoom extensions and that is when I expect great progress to be made and to have 0 features on the to do list. wow

Can't give you a deadline now. The way to go right now would be to hack the code and add the db fields that you need directly in the database.

Cheers,
Daniel

P.S. And what do you mean with "will the new version play nice with the old one"? I think that hotspots 2.0 is a good example that upgrades to the new version are easy and they make the extension more robust and better

Directly in the database..? Wouldn't know where to start but not scared to get started

If the database is populated with the fields dont I also have to modify the component? Both front-end and backend?

Yes, view files + controller that saves the data need to be modified - both for fronend and backend. But if you are not php savvy I would not advise you to go there...

I wouldnt want to Daniel but I have to now for a client, wish me luck.... So in order to start on the right foot I have to modify the view files + controller on front/back end... Would i absolutely need to modify the mysql database as well?

yea, otherwise where are you going to save the information

Ouff this is going to get really messy, best bet I should setup another Joomla site for testing.

Has anyone already done this before? Maybe they would like to share their code?