custom joomla form FIELDS

I think a lot of us desperately need the ability to add our own custom joomla form FIELDS.

It sounds complex, but I think I have a way to make it **incredibly easy** for you to add..

Just allow us to setup the FIELD (name,view etc) as usual and select a field type of USERCUSTOM.

This is the cool bit - When USERCUSTOM is selected, we then see a textbox into which we can paste our FORM XML code directly.. thus giving us the needed output in the final generated XML form. - No other parameters needed

This would be my biggest issue with component-creator, and would stop me needing to add XML override plugins and such to override the XML code in real-time (making the site slightly slower of course..)

I am pretty sure it would be the easiest FIELD you have ever added   And it would work as a stopgap solution for us while we wait for full support of new Joomla FIELDS like 'repeatable' and such..

Cheers,
Pete

Is this something I can pay to be added ?

I don't think this voting system is working at all.. It *seems* like a fairly easy change codewise, and I need it asap

It will answer many issues people have with fields that are not yet implemented (like repeatable etc)..

Thanks,
Pete

I have no idea how to 'vote' for this feature - I don't see a poll attached to this topic/thread - but I've liked, favored and followed this thread - hope that counts.
I'd have to agree with Pete, I don't think that however you're expecting people to vote for features is working.
In fact, I wouldn't have even known about this had Pete not mentioned this on a thread that I posted.

Anyway ... I'd second Pete's comments. Having this custom type would solve a TON of issues for me and would make Component Creator much more useful.

Hi Andres,

You may have missed my earlier post..

"Is this something I can pay to be added ?" (if it will speed things up ?)

Thanks,
Pete

Hi Søren ,

Thanks for looking at this - but NO PHP needed That's the beauty of this feature..

If I am running Joomla 2.5+ and I paste XML into this new 'custom XML' field, such as :

<field name="backgroundcolor" type="color" default="#eee"
label="TPL_BEEZ3_FIELD_HEADER_BACKGROUND_COLOR_LABEL"
description="TPL_BEEZ3_FIELD_HEADER_BACKGROUND_COLOR_DESC" />

..and your BUILD compiler places this code in-line in the XML file, then the Joomla color popup will actually work in the resulting component, (even though it is not a field you currently support in Component Creator), because it already exists as a field within Joomla.

Which means, we can use fields you don't yet support in your interface, as soon as they appear in new versions of Joomla..

But more than that, I can use my own custom fields that I have already installed into my Joomla site:

<field name="profile_image" type="petescustomimageuploadfield"
folder="images/myfolder"
label="TPL_BEEZ3_FIELD_IMAGE_LABEL"
description="TPL_BEEZ3_FELD_IMAGE_LABEL" />

OR things like REPEATABLE fields


<field name="list_templates"
type="Repeatable"
icon="list"
description="PLG_TINY_FIELD_TEMPLATE_FIELD_ELEMENTS_DESC"
label="PLG_TINY_FIELD_TEMPLATE_FIELD_ELEMENTS_LABEL"
default="{'template':,'location':,'description':}">
<fields name="params">
<fieldset hidden="true" name="list_templates_modal" repeat="true">
<field name="template"
label="PLG_TINY_FIELD_TEMPLATE_FIELD_NAME_LABEL"
size="30"
type="text" />
<field name="location"
label="PLG_TINY_FIELD_TEMPLATE_FIELD_LOCATION_LABEL"
description="PLG_TINY_FIELD_TEMPLATE_LOCATION_DESC"
size="30"
type="filelist"
directory="media/editors/tinymce/templates"
exclude="index.html"
hide_default="true"
hide_none="true" />
<field name="description"
label="PLG_TINY_FIELD_TEMPLATE_FIELD_DESCRIPTION_LABEL"
size="30"
type="textarea" />
</fieldset>
</fields>
</field>

As you can see, this allows me to have a custom Joomla field that I have developed (and installed into my Joomla) be referenced and used in your forms, without having to hand modify the XML field every time I BUILD the component...

The only other setting we would need, would be the SQL stored data type I guess..



Of course the second (and much more complex) feature, of a library of 'user fields' is also great idea (I thought of that prior to this - but getting that work done to everybody's satisfaction might be difficult and slower to implement

I hope that helps clarify my request - its probably the easiest field to build into the system, although I do at least recommend you check the user field XML syntax using something like "XMLReader::isValid()" stackoverflow.com/questions/17191866/how...alidate-xml-with-php

Cheers,
Pete