I have another CCK question: how do I make fields show line breaks (hard returns)? I am geting everythign running on one line and I don't see anywhere to set the input format. Also I don't want the end users to have to put in html themselves.

Jean Gazis

On 7/5/07, Eric Mckenna eric.mckenna@gmail.com wrote:

Can you explain a little more. I'm having trouble making out what you are trying to do. Why does adding these fields to your "book" node not work? And what do you mean by a "complex CCK data type"?

J-P Stacey wrote:

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Hi,

How would I go about building a complex CCK data type? The one I have in mind might be e.g. the different formats available for a "book" node:

  Format          Width   Height  Depth   Weight
  ----------------------------------------------
  Hardback        15cm    24cm    2cm     14oz
  Trade pback     14cm    22cm    1.5cm   10oz
  Paperback       10cm    15cm    1cm     6oz

Should I store each row as a flattened text field with delimiters e.g "Hardback&15&24&2&14", and let hook_widget() unflatten it prior to editing? Or can CCK store complex data types unflattened?

Given the form chunk to edit each row would be five input fields, can hook_widget() cope with making this whole block "multiple" easily

enough?

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Would it need to be defined in form API as a multiple'd fieldset?

Cheers, J-P

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But where is "Data settings"? I'm using Drupal 5.1

The data type I want to have is recipes, and to avoid having a huge form with a zillion fields I wanted to just have one field for ingredients and have them input them as a list, but it is just one run-on text line. Same for directions.

Am I better off using a contributed recipes module? I think there is one.

On 7/5/07, Marco Antonio Villegas Vega marvil07@gmail.com wrote:

Hola Jean,

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I have another CCK question:

It's better if you start a new thread for a new topic.

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how do I make fields show line breaks (hard returns)? I am geting everythign running on one line and I don't see anywhere to set the input format. Also I don't want the end users to have to put in html themselves.

Change the default value in Data settings -> Text processing to -> Filtered text (user selects input format) ________________________________

 Marco Antonio Villegas Vega

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Thank you very much! I found it and it worked, even for the test recipes I already entered.

On 7/10/07, Marco Antonio Villegas Vega marvil07@gmail.com wrote:

Hi,

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But where is "Data settings"? I'm using Drupal 5.1

• admin/content/types
• edit on your type for recipes
• manage fields
• configure on your field to list

that's an option, another:

• go to: admin/content/types/<nameOfYourType>/fields/<nameOfYourField>

now

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Change the default value in Data settings -> Text processing to -> Filtered text (user selects input format)

About using a cotrib module.. I use a contrib module if it solve all my problem, but it's not always the best choice. Usually if you want something simple it's better to use CCK; and if you want something really customized maybe you're thinking in a new module :D

Cheers ________________________________

 Marco Antonio Villegas Vega

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Hi,

um, returning late to this party: I worked out how to enter and save complex CCK data types. As the drupal.org tutorials seem a bit opaque on this I'm posting it here FYI.

Two of the module hooks for defining the CCK fields need to work in tandem:

hook_field_settings('database columns', $field) needs to return an array for setting up the db columns, with keys for all the sub-data elements:

return array( 'descr' => array('type' => 'varchar', ...), 'depth' => array('type' => 'decimal', ...), 'width' => array('type' => 'decimal', ...), 'height' => array('type' => 'decimal', ...), );

hook_widget('form', ... ) needs to return a chunk of form API with fields whose names match the keys in the above:

$form[$field['field_name']][$delta] = array( '#type' => 'fieldset', 'descr' => array(...), 'depth' => array(...), 'width' => array(...), 'height' => array(...), );

CCK creates the database tables for you: I can't work out what prompts it to create a new table and what just makes it save the values to content_type_foo, though.

If you've read this far, then cheers, J-P

Eric Mckenna wrote:

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Can you explain a little more. I'm having trouble making out what you are trying to do. Why does adding these fields to your "book" node not work? And what do you mean by a "complex CCK data type"?

By "complex" I mean having structured data within each occurrence of the field. For example, if my books were available in different languages, then that wouldn't be complex because each CCK field would be just a single dropdown:

Available in:

English German Spanish

Each occurrence of the book's format, however, has five bits of data in it: paperback/hardback, weight in ounces and three dimensions in centimetres. So I can't just use one of the out-of-the-box CCK field types and am not quite sure how to build a field type to cope with it.