Event Custom Fields

Hello,

I need to add various text fields to display for each event (not for the registration form).

How would I go about adding let's say 2 text fields, 2 text area and 1 file download field?

I found this but it's not very clear as I cannot code and the link on it also does not work.

SHOW EXTRA INFORMATION OF EVENTS USING CUSTOM FIELD (NOTE : CUSTOM FIELDS FOR EVENTS, NOT FOR REGISTRATION FORM)

If you have extra informaiton about the events and want to show to front-end users (beside basic informaiton like Start Date, End Date, Price, Location, Capacity...), you can create custom fields to allow entering these extra information during creating events and these information will be showed when users browse for events from front-end. The steps are :

Go to Event Booking -> Configuration, find the config option Event Custom Field, set it to Yes.
Open the file components/com_eventbooking/fields.xml to define custom fields you want (the custom fields need to be defined via an XML file in this case). There are two custom fields defined by default : A textbox custom field and a textarea custom field. You can define similar custom fields in the fields. The list of supported custom field types can be found at docs.joomla.org/Standard_parameter_types .
After defining custom fields, when you creating event, you will see a new tab called Extra Information. You can enter value for the custom fields you created in this tab and these information will be showed in the frontend when users browse for events.

Hi

Yes. At the moment, if you want to add more custom fields to the system, you will need to add these fields to the mentioned XMl file. Could you please try ?

Tuan

Can someone tell me how/where the information placed in the Extra Information boxes get placed in the database? I would like to use this field as a hidden field to hold a number I need in the database, but I would like to remove the "field_speaker=" text so it will only hold the number. I figure I can do this at the location that is information gets placed in the database. Any help?

You can edit the text in /components/com_eventbooking/fields.xml

Thanks Frank for helping me answer the forum question as usual. My internet connection is really bad these days and I could not answer forum questions before. Today, I have to come to my friend home to work instead of working at my office .

Back to the question of Matia, unfortunately, you cannot use hidden custom field to pass the information to database. So in this case, I am afraid of you will need to customize the code of the extension, add the hidden field to registration form and then store it in the database table you want (not sure what table the data will be stored ?) ?

Maybe you can contact me via Skype so that we can discuss about it together and find a solution. My Skype nickname is tuanpnves.

Regards,

Tuan

Actually what I did instead was just add two more fields to the registration form so it was saved in the database that way. Thanks though!

Oh, that's great. But how you make these fields to become hidden fields? If you add the custom fields to registration form, users will still be able to edit the value of these fields ?

Tuan

Actually I edited the administrator/components/eventbooking/views/event/tmpl/default.php file. This added a field to the registration page in the admin area only. All it does is display an input box and saves the data within the input box to a specific database column. It is set up the same way you designed the other input fields for a manual/admin registration. I must say, your thought process on this component is very elegant!

Hi Matia

I also need this hidden field facility urgently as I need some of my fields to be only visible to event administrators. Can you pse tell me how you did this in the default.php file?

Thank you

bfrylinck, I opened the file and looked at the admin->Components->EventBooking->Events Tab->New. If you start at the beginning of the PHP file and the beginning of the Add New Event form you will see the similarities. I did this to decide where I wanted the new field to be. I just decided on the bottom. So at the bottom of the form I added
This will display a textbox for an Admin to fill out. I believe it automatically saves to the database and should be able to pull from the database too just because of how the page was coded. The $this->item->class_schedules_id needs to match the name and id of the new field though. That's it! These are core changes to the component though so they will need to be remade every time the component is updated.