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"Template Management with images" extension

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Cocoaholic's avatar
Cocoaholic
445 posts
19 years ago
Cocoaholic's avatar Cocoaholic

Hi all,

I put together my first extension today and I must say it was quite easy to do, even for someone with very limited php knowledge like me. This is just a test-case to get some feedback on Extension development, feel free to point out the mistakes I undoubtedly made. 😉

The extension does the following to the the Template Management section: - add images to the templates to indicate the different template types - order the templates by type/alphabetically - show description of the template type

You can change all these settings in the Extension Manager and use your own images if you want.

Cheers!

       
Sue Crocker's avatar
Sue Crocker
26,054 posts
19 years ago
Sue Crocker's avatar Sue Crocker

Just a gentle reminder - your zip file has mac specific stuff in it, and the filename contains a space.

As a PC user, I have to go kill off a __MACOSX directory, and a .DS_Store file.

I’ve ftp’d up items in directories and have had problems seeing the .DS_Store files unless my ftp program shows hidden files.

       
Cocoaholic's avatar
Cocoaholic
445 posts
19 years ago
Cocoaholic's avatar Cocoaholic

Thanks for the reminder Sue.

I updated the download and as far as I can see it should be Ok now … I am not 100% sure the resource thing (the __MACOSX directory) is gone, could you check that for me please? 😊

       
Sue Crocker's avatar
Sue Crocker
26,054 posts
19 years ago
Sue Crocker's avatar Sue Crocker
Thanks for the reminder Sue. I updated the download and as far as I can see it should be Ok now … I am not 100% sure the resource thing (the __MACOSX directory) is gone, could you check that for me please? 😊

Perfect! Worked just fine for me. Thanks for redoing it. 😊

       
Cocoaholic's avatar
Cocoaholic
445 posts
19 years ago
Cocoaholic's avatar Cocoaholic

Thank you for checking again 😊

       
Sue Crocker's avatar
Sue Crocker
26,054 posts
19 years ago
Sue Crocker's avatar Sue Crocker

Inital feedback

It works well, the only thing that looked “funny” was the individual rows.

See the attached screen shot.

       
Cocoaholic's avatar
Cocoaholic
445 posts
19 years ago
Cocoaholic's avatar Cocoaholic

Right, I forgot about that IE float bug.

Well, it should look something like the screenshot below in other browsers 😉

       
Sue Crocker's avatar
Sue Crocker
26,054 posts
19 years ago
Sue Crocker's avatar Sue Crocker

Except it’s FireFox on Windows. 😊

       
Cocoaholic's avatar
Cocoaholic
445 posts
19 years ago
Cocoaholic's avatar Cocoaholic

I should test before blaming IE, just discovered that Firefox on the Mac shows the same.

Sorry about that 😉 Now let’s see how we can fix it…

       
Cocoaholic's avatar
Cocoaholic
445 posts
19 years ago
Cocoaholic's avatar Cocoaholic

Ok, it should look better now.

       
Sue Crocker's avatar
Sue Crocker
26,054 posts
19 years ago
Sue Crocker's avatar Sue Crocker
Ok, it should look better now.

Yup. Much better. Works in FireFox and IE for Windows both.

       
Lisa Wess's avatar
Lisa Wess
20,502 posts
19 years ago
Lisa Wess's avatar Lisa Wess

I love this extension, thanks for making it available. Also added to the wiki.

       
Chris Ruzin's avatar
Chris Ruzin
41 posts
19 years ago
Chris Ruzin's avatar Chris Ruzin

Just discovered this little gem. Very nice! I think I’ll be using it with future clients.

       
mWall's avatar
mWall
126 posts
19 years ago
mWall's avatar mWall

As a newbie exploring EE Core, I just wanna say thanks for this nice little extension. Very helpful for easy identifaction of template type.

       
Cocoaholic's avatar
Cocoaholic
445 posts
19 years ago
Cocoaholic's avatar Cocoaholic

Thanks for the kind words people.

       
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