I'm working on a mod that hides an extra field if the value is empty. In my case it's really handy.

I have a database of files with a lot of mirrors. Some files have 3 mirrors some have 5. Therefore i created like 7 link fields. But if i fill only 3 of them, the other 4 still appear but are empty! not good!

I got up to here, but my php seems to break down at this point. A guy over at codingforums is giving me the "right code", i'm just fiddling around with it.

I need some serious php guru's here!
www.codingforums.com/showthread.php?p=854701

I can't seem to post scripts here. Check out this forum:
www.codingforums.com/showthread.php?p=854701

it would be nicer to display some text instead of displaying nothing, like this:
"Fieldname:" "-unkown-"

..
But when you found out to hide empty fields, please let us know :)

I did it. This ONLY works with fields that have a SINGLE field in them. I only tried it with the textbox extra field. I'm trying to get this to work with the links extra field. It's not working with that one.

To use this, download the paste.txt and open it up. FTP into your server and go to components->com_k2->templates->default->item.php

Go down towards line 250 and fine the part that says
Select the lines starting from the line above <--- item extra fields ---> all the way down to 2 lines above

This should stop from a text box from being visible if it is empty. Now let's try to get this to work with links.

Nice one! gone try it soon :)

Nick Tsutsunava said:I did it. This ONLY works with fields that have a SINGLE field in them. I only tried it with the textbox extra field. I'm trying to get this to work with the links extra field. It's not working with that one.
To use this, download the paste.txt and open it up. FTP into your server and go to components->com_k2->templates->default->item.php

Go down towards line 250 and fine the part that says
Select the lines starting from the line above <--- item extra fields ---> all the way down to 2 lines above

This should stop from a text box from being visible if it is empty. Now let's try to get this to work with links.

did it work?

Marcel Plomp said:Nice one! gone try it soon :)
Nick Tsutsunava said:I did it. This ONLY works with fields that have a SINGLE field in them. I only tried it with the textbox extra field. I'm trying to get this to work with the links extra field. It's not working with that one. To use this, download the paste.txt and open it up. FTP into your server and go to components->com_k2->templates->default->item.php

Go down towards line 250 and fine the part that says
Select the lines starting from the line above <--- item extra fields ---> all the way down to 2 lines above

This should stop from a text box from being visible if it is empty. Now let's try to get this to work with links.

Hi,

just wanted to confirm that the code form paste.txt definitely works for text fields and text areas.

Hi,

I've posted a solution here.

Olivier Nolbert
www.jiliko.net