custom page view

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Last Post: March 20, 2008   (RSS)

By Chris_t - March 20, 2008

Hello All,

Alright I am close to having this worked out I am sure it is just a matter of formating it correctly. here is my code for the xml file


<?php
require_once "/home/ragefoot/public_html/cmsAdmin/lib/viewer_functions.php";
$options = array(); // NOTE: see online documentation for more details on these options
$options['tableName'] = 'player'; // (REQUIRED) MySQL tablename to list record from. Example: "article";
$options['recordNum'] = ''; // (optional) Record number to display. Example: "1"; Defaults to number on end of url, then 1
$options['where'] = "dancer_slide_show = 'name'"; // (ADVANCED) MySQL WHERE conditions to use INSTEAD of recordNum to look up record. Example: "fieldname = 'value'"
$record = getRecord($options);
?>
<playlist xmlns="http://xspf.org/ns/0/" version="1">
<trackList>
<?php foreach (getUploads($options['tableName'], 'dancer_slide_show', $record['num']) as $upload): ?>
<track>
</location>http://www.ragefootball.com/cmsAdmin/uploads/Dancers/<?php echo $upload['filename'] ?><location>
</track>
<?php endforeach ?>
</trackList>
</playlist>

I get "Page Viewer (player): MySQL Error: Unknown column 'dancer_slide_show' in 'where clause'"

With that I am sure all I need to do is define the field dancer_slide_show with a value of just one dancer like her name so it shows just the pictures uploaded in her entry. because the xml file is a separate file I am not sure it can look up the url and get the number. Let me know if any of you smart people can shed some light on this.

Thanks
Chris

Re: [ChrisTitchenal] custom page view

By Dave - March 20, 2008

Hi Chris,

So 'dancer_slide_show' is an upload field in the 'player' section (or will be a field)? Is that right? Or will there be a separate section for dancers?

Either way you'd probably want to lookup the dancer by player (or dancer name) or record number.

Are the dancers in the same record and section as the players or how will they be stored?
Dave Edis - Senior Developer
interactivetools.com

Re: [Dave] custom page view

By Chris_t - March 20, 2008

Hey Dave

Let me try to explain the structure of the CMS better.
I made a Section called player ( now looking back I should have named it staff) That is where everyone is listed dancers,players,coaches, and office personal. It has there name hight weight ect.. all there bio information. Inside that Section is an upload box named dancer_slide_show. That is where I want them to upload only the pictures they want to show in the slide show.

So when they click the read more on a dancer it pulls up the dancerPage.php That contains the flash file slide show on it and with any luck starts displaying the matching girls photos.

So I need in the page view in the xml for it to match the dancers personal entry in the players section so it displays just the pictures uploaded to just her.

If your still thinking English is my second or third language [:P] I will try to rephrase my question again. if you could write the syntactic of how I would define
$options['where'] = to check the field dancer_slide_show = the name field That in my little knowledge of php should be how it can match up the pictures uploaded to the girl.

Thanks
Chris

Re: [ChrisTitchenal] custom page view

By Chris_t - March 20, 2008 - edited: March 20, 2008

Alright been messing with the code

<?php
require_once "/home/ragefoot/public_html/cmsAdmin/lib/viewer_functions.php";
$options = array();
$options['tableName'] = 'player';
$options['recordNum'] = '90';
$options['where'] = '';
$record = getRecord($options);
?>
<playlist xmlns="http://xspf.org/ns/0/" version="1">
<trackList>
<?php foreach (getUploads($options['tableName'], 'dancer_slide_show', $record['num']) as $upload): ?>
<track>

<location>http://www.ragefootball.com/cmsAdmin/uploads/Dancers/<?php echo $upload['filename'] ?></location>
</track>
<?php endforeach ?>
</trackList>
</playlist>

Will get me the image to load.

I had to tell it a recordNum to get it to do that. So now I need to figure out how to pass a number to it and have it display the matching ones.

Thanks

Re: [ChrisTitchenal] custom page view

By Dave - March 20, 2008

Ok, I think I got it. You have a page called dancerPage.php that shows details on specific dancer, but you don't want images shown on that page directly, because you're using a flash slideshow (_on that page_) which needs to load the images from an XML config file. Is that right?

If it is, you'd probably display dancer pages with an url like this: dancerPage.php?dancer-name-3/

If so, just blank out the where option on your XML page (I'm going to pretend it's called dancePageXML.php) and link to it directly the same way: dancerPageXML.php?dancer-name-3/

The part after the ? in the url is called the "query string" and you can link from dancerPage.php to dancerPageXML.php like this to pass it along:

dancerPageXML.php?<?php echo @$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']; ?>

Let me know if that works. You can test it during development by linking directly to urls like dancerPageXML.php?3 and viewing source and making sure it's creating the right XML.

Hope that helps, if I totally misunderstood let me know! ;)
Dave Edis - Senior Developer
interactivetools.com

Re: [ChrisTitchenal] custom page view

By Dave - March 20, 2008 - edited: March 20, 2008

Ok, in dancerPage.php change the 'file' line to this:

so.addVariable('file','http://www.ragefootball.com/test/imagelist.php.xml?<?php echo @$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']; ?>');

So it passes the record number to the php xml file. Next, in imagelist.php.xml change the recordNum option to this:

$options['recordNum'] = '';

So it loads the record number from the url.

If that doesn't do it, feel free to email me FTP and I can get in there and take a look.

Hope that helps! :)
Dave Edis - Senior Developer
interactivetools.com