New Extension: nGen File Field for FieldFrame

CP publish blank screen: possible solutions

For those interested, I have experienced publish blank screens in a recent development, using the nGen File Field together with FieldFrame, Playa, LG TinyMCE and a few other extensions. I had two combined issues:

1) No enough PHP memory on my shared server. It was limited to 8MB and I had to boost it to 24MB by adding the following command into the htaccess file: php_value memory_limit 24M

2) nGen File Field was looking for a missing folder on the server! Make sure that you set the correct folder path into the Admin > Utilities > Fieldtypes Manager.

@joshclark17

Do you have Photo Gallery Extended installed (module and extension)? If so, disable them. Worked for me.

Regards Martijn

It would be absolutely fantastic to have an import option for the MH file field (like the datamatrix option)

I have soo many sites with marc huots file extension installed (all of them have multiple uploads enabled), and I would like to change all to FF Matrix with ngen File field.

would be a big time saver!! I would buy you a big big beer or whatsoever!

p.s. please put a donation link on your site, or in your profile: it’s very easy to setup (I’d love to give you something for your genius work!): in Paypal: 1. Click on the “Merchant Services” tab 2. In the box Merchant Services, click on Website Payments Standard 3. Under the “Donate” button, click on “Accept Contributions” 4. Scroll down to and click on “Get Donation Buttons” etc… then paste the email link in your profile…

aiight?!

Any news on when a SAEF version will be ready:)?

@dvancouver Brandon Kelly has it working in a SAEF on his site.

@eyevariety Odd as it does not work on mine, would love it too, does anyone else have this working on their site?

@dvancouver Are you also using our Structure module on that weblog?

Others please check your PMs as I’ve contacted several of you to learn more about your reported issue.

No structure module at present. It works fine on the CP end but not with SAEF, the field and upload in the SAEF form seems to be fine but does not go through to the db.

Hope somebody can help to get me going - I used to use the File extension to upload images into my travel blog - I’d like to replace it with the nGen File Field extension - what’s the easiest way to do this without having to re-upload all the pictures already in my blog.

Thanks you in advance for your help.

@mmjaeger I believe your ok with switching over as long as the previous ones from Mark’s ext did not have multiple uploads. So if they are single images then I would say yes as mine converted perfectly. You could always do a test though if you are still wondering.

@mmjaeger I believe your ok with switching over as long as the previous ones from Mark’s ext did not have multiple uploads. So if they are single images then I would say yes as mine converted perfectly. You could always do a test though if you are still wondering.

I’m not sure, but I think I do have multiple uploads - as far as how I start with this, do I just use the same fieldname for the nGen File or do I need to change the template - I’m kind of lost as I don’t know where to start with this.

I’m getting a problem on a new site I’m working on where you can upload images and afterwards the trash icon shows up OK, but when clicking on it, the bubble that pops up is empty and the source looks like this:

<li class="ngen-ff-choice-remove"><a href="#"></a></li>
<li class="ngen-ff-choice-delete"><a href="#"></a></li>

The option to choose a previous file also isn’t viewable:

The select is set to display: none and then text for ‘choose an existing file’ is missing.

I’m getting an error that looks to be similar to some of the errors mentioned earlier in the thread, with a slight variation. I’m using v0.9.7 but when I attempt to upload an image, the screen goes blank except for this error:

Warning: exif_imagetype(/path/to/media/music_reviews/i) [function.exif-imagetype]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /path/to/extensions/fieldtypes/ngen_file_field/ft.ngen_file_field.php on line 726

Warning: unlink(/path/to/media/music_reviews/i) [function.unlink]: No such file or directory in /path/to/extensions/fieldtypes/ngen_file_field/ft.ngen_file_field.php on line 333

Fatal error: Cannot unset string offsets in /path/to/extensions/fieldtypes/ngen_file_field/ft.ngen_file_field.php on line 338

What I find particularly interesting is that, for whatever reason, the fieldtype seems to be appending the first character of the filename of the image I’m uploading to the directory path. In other words, if I change the name of the file and try to upload it again, the error changes, but instead of “music_reviews/i”, it becomes “music_reviews/x” where “x” is the first character of my filename.

Does anyone have this working with SAEF and if so can you explain your enviroment, PHP, MySQL, etc.