FieldFrame

Does anybody have any experience importing data into a FF Matrix field? I have a regular FF Matrix field consisting of 9 columns (the data is all text) and I’m hoping to find a way to automatically import rows from a spreadsheet. Possible?

Thanks in advance! Manoj

Hi Manoj,

The way FF Matrix stores its data is pretty straightforward – it’s just a serialized multidimensional array:

array(
  array(
    '1' => 'row 1, column 1 data',
    '2' => 'row 1, column 2 data'
  ),
  array(
    '1' => 'row 2, column 1 data',
    '2' => 'row 2, column 2 data'
  )
);

(Sub-array indexes link to the column IDs defined by the FF Matrix configurator in the field settings.)

So, it would be pretty simple to write a script that imports your custom dataset into an FF Matrix field, with a little bit of PHP know-how.

Does anyone know of a way where I can essentially have ({row_count} + a set number) ?.

I have 3 individual text boxes on an saef above the matrix field. Each is numbered 1 - 3.

I want the matrix to be able to start at 4 instead of 1. All I would need to do is something like {row_count} + 3

Anyone know how I can do this?

Check out the Simple Math plugin.

That plugin worked perfectly. Thank you Brandon!

Is there a way to print the column label without using the :table method? e.g.

{product_details}
    <li>{ff_label_size} {size}</li>
    <li>{ff_label_dimensions} {dimensions}</li>
{/product_details}

I don’t see anything in the documentation about how to do this… is it available? I can always just do Size: {size}, but what fun is that?

Just wondering if anyone has successfully imported data via CSVGrab to a weblog where FF Matrix has been incorporated.

I’m going to guess this isn’t currently possible but if someone has been able to achieve I’m quite curious how?

Thanks

Does FF Matrix have any issues with MSM? I’m trying to pull in a simple set of images on a secondary site, but don’t seem to be able to get anything out (bar the {title};

{exp:weblog:entries site="default_site" weblog="photo_gallery_rag" sort="desc" disable="member_data|categories|trackbacks" limit="8" paginate="bottom"}

                {paginate}
                Page {current_page} of {total_pages} {pagination_links}
                {/paginate}
{photo_gallery}
                <div class="art">
                
                    <a href="http://{url_title_path=photo-gallery/view}" title="{title}">_                    {exp:imgsizer:size image="{photo_file}" width="215" height="160" alt="{photo_caption}" base_path="../images/uploads/" base_cache="../images/sized/images/uploads/"}</a>
                    <h3><a href="http://{url_title_path=photo-gallery/view}" title="{photo_caption}">{photo_caption}</a></h3>

                </div>
{/photo_gallery}
            {/exp:weblog:entries}

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,

Anyone have any ideas? I don’t want to use the gallery plugin really, it’s overkill for what I need…

Is the FF Matrix js processing every table cell? If so, any thoughts on if that is necessary and where in the js to disable it? I’m having issues with larger grids failing to load completely because the js is taking too long. All cell types are text.

– Edit Answered my own question. bye bye FF Matrix.

Does FF Matrix have any issues with MSM? I’m trying to pull in a simple set of images on a secondary site, but don’t seem to be able to get anything out (bar the {title}); …

The latest version of FieldFrame sorted this for me (I was running 1.1.2)…

I’m getting the “Your fieldtypes folder path is invalid.”, even though I know the path is correct. My fieldtypes folder is at /httpdocs/admin/extensions/fieldtypes/, and that’s what I’ve put in the FieldFrame extensions field for “Path to your ‘fieldtypes’ folder”.

Permissions for the extensions and fieldtypes folders are chmodded to 777, and I’m running FF 1.3.4. The URL to the fieldtypes folder points to the same folder: http://www.example.com/admin/extensions/fieldtypes/

Any ideas?

This just happened, after a server move.

This is only a problem on Plesk, I guess: you need to specify the full path to your fieldframes folder. (You can’t see it unless you’re logged in as root.)

I changed my path to /var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/admin/extensions/fieldframe/ and it worked. FWIW, I turned safe_mode to off for the domain, too.

Anyway, it works.

Hi,

Does anyone know if there is a fieldframe field for pulling in a category group. I see a couple for gallery categories but none for regular cats. I’d like to be able to categorize a FF matrix row.

Thanks