Image selection using com_media in other components/modules

[Pete Jones]

In the past I've modified com_media to allow me to place a textfield
and button on a custom component, which then opens Media Manager in a
modal popup. You can then select the image and return it to the text
field (please see http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=476&t=280655).

Is this something that exists in J1.6 or has an equivalent? It's quite
useful.

[Artyom Bisyarin]

On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:55:56 +0200, Pete Jones
<jo...@petersencreative.com> wrote:

> In the past I've modified com_media to allow me to place a textfield
> and button on a custom component, which then opens Media Manager in a
> modal popup. You can then select the image and return it to the text
> field (please see http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=476&t=280655).

In J1.5 you can also use this plugin:
http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/tools/development-tools/9353

> Is this something that exists in J1.6 or has an equivalent? It's quite
> useful.

J1.6 provides new JForm class. So functionality described by you above
will be realized as a JForm's field.

We are working on this now:
http://groups.google.com/group/joomla-dev-cms/browse_thread/thread/9a60013d76fd3569?hl=en-GB

[Anthony McLin]

This is fantastic functionality. I've had to hack it into one of my components before.

Is there any plans for a multi-image field? Ordering of entries? Or just single-image input.

-Anthony

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[Artyom Bisyarin]

On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:53:38 +0200, Anthony McLin
<amc...@kaadesigngroup.com> wrote:

> This is fantastic functionality. I've had to hack it into one of my
> components before.
>
> Is there any plans for a multi-image field? Ordering of entries? Or just
> single-image input.

Currently I want to prepare a good ground for all fields that receive
their values from modal windows. I think that should be a basic field
named "modal" and some other fields will inherit it (media, image, user,
article). I will describe this more thoroughly in "Patchwork: Fix up Image
Form field" thread.

Also I want to propose to rework com_media. I think it should allow to
work with all media files in the modal mode, not only with images as now.
To all: What are you think?

So there is a lot of work now, and personally I don't planning make
multi-image field. But this is a good idea and if you want you can
contribute. Just wait a bit until "modal" field will be approved.

[Andrew Eddie]

Yes, it's not easy (but not impossible) to get this to work in 1.5.
However, in 1.6 we should definitely make the modal image selector
available from any component (not just com_content).

Regards,
Andrew Eddie
http://www.theartofjoomla.com - the art of becoming a Joomla developer

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[Pete Jones]

Excellent, it's really useful to have.

I got it working in 1.5 with a little 'tweaking', so it's nice to see
this being incorporated into 1.6.

Thanks
Pete