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europeanmike

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attribute plugin & some other questions....
« on: November 03, 2010, 11:06:19 pm »
hi everyone!

just found osclass & think its great :-)

i am working on the german translation - that should be done by next week :-)

i was wondering why the attributes plugin has hardcoded attribute types... wouldnt it make sense to be able to configure them per category?

also what is meant by "pages" in admin menu... can i configure  pages and link to them in the frontend?

i need extended fields for the registration form - do i need to hardcode that or is there a configuration?

thx for the help, michael

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Re: attribute plugin & some other questions....
« Reply #1 on: November 04, 2010, 11:06:47 am »
Hi europeanmike!

Great to heard you like OSClass and you're working on the german translation! Thanks!

Which plugin are you trying to use? (houses, cars, jobs,...) We faced the same problem some time ago, we're few people developing it,  we know we could improve the plugins. We have that on our lists, but tell us, do you have any specific idea you wish to see done?

You're correct about "pages", you could make a new one and link it wherever you want. If I remember well, you could find and example on "default" theme, at the footer, they should appear. Pre-defined pages are emails/notifications/alerts we send on specific events such as a new registration, you're able to modify them, but not to delete them. User-made pages, were intended to serve as "Terms of Service", "FAQ", "About us",... or anything you want. We also have in made to make them non-static (that you could include some dinamic elements).


Which extra-fields do you need? If we find them interesting we will include them. If not... don't worry! We also planned a custom-field add-on (but you probably will not see that in a near future).

Thanks a lot, we really appreciate your feedback and opinions!.

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Re: attribute plugin & some other questions....
« Reply #2 on: November 04, 2010, 01:57:08 pm »
that was a fast answer :-)

i am a php/mysql programmer myself... so i might be able to help also... right now i am trying to understand how osclass works... and trying to make it work for a new project of mine ;-)

i was looking at the cars plugin... but i need it for something completely different... so i thougth it should be possible to make attributes editable... to make this work for any type of goods & any market. my idea was to be able to be able to add attributes for each category... my new project has animals, cars & housing.... and there are very specific needs for cars in germany for example... it would be great if an admin could add attributes as needed which then could be shown and filled out on the user side.

registration fields i would need is street, postal code, city, phone number, fax number, etc...

thx again for your fast response...

michael

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Re: attribute plugin & some other questions....
« Reply #3 on: November 04, 2010, 02:34:44 pm »
Hi,

Plugins are for that, each plugin could be attached to several categories. For example, "Cars plugins" could be attached to a category named "Cars" and "Jobs plugins" could be attached to "Jobs". And both of them will work fine.

We have planned that you could also attach categories to some "subtypes" of plugins. For example, in cars plugins you could specify several car types (autovan, sport car, ...) we want to make possible to attach a category "sport car" to a car type "sport car" (the name don't have to be the same, don't worry). This also happen with house types.


If you want to write your own plugin (for example for animals), then I recoomend you to start with "jobs plugins" or "dating plugins" which seems to be the easiest out there. I think they're good examples to start of.