general questions

[outflux3]

Hi Mike, Just wanted to post a few general questions here as i'm almost done with setting up an application using matrix...

1.) how can I get text editor fields to output without escaped quotes

2.) what is the procedure to have a record become a page (i.e. if a single record is a blog entry, how to access that as a page) and how to template that;

3.) is there any way to pull an excerpt from a texteditor field.

Thanks!

-marc

[n00dles]

1) i'm using the same code for encoding as GS so to unencode text from the editors before outputting you will need to use

strip_decode($content)

2) This will be implemented using the routing table (_routes) and the slug field. I'll try and document it for you tonight when I get home and put it in the wiki.

3) There is nothing written yet but i'll be adding these sort of functions before we go live.

I just need to sort out the delete functions and we should be ready for a beta release and then a full release quickly after that.

[outflux3]

Ok great - got the strip_decode working;

thanks for the help!

I will try to start contributing to the wiki once i have a solid grasp of the whole thing; I will have some code example and maybe there could be a place to store complete setups, like blogs, etc, with all of the tables, functions etc..

[tablatronix]

regarding get field functions, did you have anyhting in mind mike ?

I was thinking it would be nice to have DM_getField('name'); DM_printField('name'); functionality for templating.

2 ways i can think. Classic functions with an internal global var obvious issues, single table at a time, which is fine if you think of this as sql.

DM_use('tablename,'index?'); // called first to set a global tablespace, just like sql does for queries.
DM_useRecord('index'); // to select the record id to use
echo DM_getField('myfield');
DM_close(); // might be useful to unset to prevent undesired results in another query

or objectlike

$DM_record = new DM_table('tablename','index'); 
echo $DM_record->getField('fieldname');

or perhaps ever runtime functions based on table names

DM_get_tablename_field('fieldname'); // this probably isn't wise.

Obviously we need to select a table and a record so its a little different than normal sql queries, but better than doing selects just to get record fields. or passing the same parameters over and over to a function.