Field: Text Box

An enhanced replacement for the default Text Input and Textarea fields.

Version: 2.2
Date: 11 April 2011
Requirements: Symphony 2.1
Author: Rowan Lewis [email protected]
GitHub Repository: http://github.com/rowan-lewis/textboxfield

Installation

1. Upload the 'textboxfield' folder in this archive to your Symphony 'extensions' folder.

2. Enable it by selecting the "Field: Text Box", choose Enable from the with-selected menu, then click Apply.

3. You can now add the "Text Box" field to your sections.

Features

• Boolean searching with the boolean filter.
• Regular expression searching with the regexp filter.
• Partial searching with starts-with, ends-with and contains filters.
• The above filters can be negated by prefixing with not-.
• Text formatter and validation rule support.
• Output grouping on handle.
• 'Raw' output mode for unformatted data.
• Parameter output support.
• Limit the number of characters that can be entered.
• Limit the number of characters shown in publish table columns.
• Handles are always unique.

Changelog

Version 2.0.17, 1 November 2010

• Added checkbox to wrap output in CDATA regardless of formatting.
• Added checkbox to toggle inclusion of handles in output.
• Output values instead of handles as parameters if handles are disabled.
• Fixed datasource filter editor JavaScript.
• A couple of other minor issues.

Version 2.0.14, 19 February 2010

• Improved upgrade process.
• Added a setting that lets you display more than 75 characters in publish table columns.

Version 2.0.11, 9 December 2009

• Really fixed the upgrade issues, really!
• Changed the way handles are created to make sure they are always unique.

Version 2.0.10, 1 December 2009

• Fixed issue where upgrades for 2.0.9 where not being applied due to a Symphony bug.

Version 2.0.9, 1 December 2009

• Added a fancy interface to select filter modes when editing data sources.
• Added ability to limit input to a specified length.
• Fixed a few minor bugs.

Version 2.0.6, 24 July 2009

• Added 'raw' output mode to get unformatted data.
• Added delegates to modify the publish panel.

Version 2.0.4, 29 June 2009

• Fixed a couple of minor issues with data sanitisation.
• Added starts-with, ends-with and contains filter methods.

Version 2.0.2, 11 May 2009

• This is a complete rewrite of the old extension, it isn't backwards compatible, so don't try to upgrade.