Plugin Descriptions on mutiple lines
5 posts by 3 authors in: Forums > CMS Builder: Plugins & Add-ons
Last Post: May 26, 2011 (RSS)
By ITI - May 24, 2011
Anyway, one annoying thing is that the plugin description can only be entered on one line which results in a half mile of horizontal scrolling.
Would you please consider this minor modification to:
function getPluginData().
function getPluginData($filename) {
...
// get plugin data
$pluginData = array();
$fileContent = file_get_contents($filepath);
foreach ($textKeyToFieldname as $textKey => $fieldname) {
if($textKey == 'Description'){
preg_match_all("/$textKey:(.*?)(\r|\n)/mi", $fileContent, $matches); // match \r as well for mac users who uploaded file in ascii with wrong line end chars (and windows users who would be \r\n)
for($i=0;$i<count($matches[1]);$i+=1){
if(isset($pluginData[$fieldname])) $pluginData[$fieldname] .= ($matches[1][$i]);
else $pluginData[$fieldname] = ($matches[1][$i]);
}
}else {
preg_match("/$textKey:(.*?)(\r|\n)/mi", $fileContent, $matches); // match \r as well for mac users who uploaded file in ascii with wrong line end chars (and windows users who would be \r\n)
$pluginData[$fieldname] = trim( @$matches[1] );
}
}
...
}A description could then be written over multiple lines like this:
<?phpThanks for looking at it.
Glen
http://www.CanadianDomainRegistry.ca
ITI Internetworking Technologies Inc.
Re: [glenara] Plugin Descriptions on mutiple lines
By Jason - May 25, 2011
In general, we would want to keep the plugin descriptions fairly concise as to not have a cluttered plugin list. A good practice here would be to add a very basic description in the header of the plugin and then a more detailed description in a readme file that you can have along with your plugin.
Hope this helps
Jason Sauchuk - Project Manager
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Re: [Jason] Plugin Descriptions on mutiple lines
By ITI - May 25, 2011
I completely agree, the description should be short and concise but even some of the plugins created by you fellows requires horizontal scrolling which is annoying. Horizontal scrolling as you know is always frowned upon.
It just seems to me that it's pretty minor code update to accommodate plugin developers.
Glen
ps... Congrats on the Canuks...
http://www.CanadianDomainRegistry.ca
ITI Internetworking Technologies Inc.
Re: [glenara] Plugin Descriptions on mutiple lines
By robin - May 26, 2011
Thanks for your ideas!
We'll add that to the list of things to look at for the next version.
Thanks,
Robin
Programmer
interactivetools.com
Re: [robin] Plugin Descriptions on mutiple lines
By ITI - May 26, 2011 - edited: July 11, 2011
I have written what I think is a slightly better solution which I added to my "Getting Started with Plugins Page"
http://www.canadiandomainregistry.ca/cmsDocs/cmsPublic
http://www.CanadianDomainRegistry.ca
ITI Internetworking Technologies Inc.