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Orestis Polychronakis
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12 years 2 months ago #102596 by Orestis Polychronakis

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Hello guys! This is my first post. So I have to say thank you to the developing team for the excellent product called K2!

My problem is that I have created a layout override for the itemlist view and category layout. The problem is that in the leading array items the extra_fields are in JSON format and not in an object like format. Why is this happening? Have I understood something wrong?

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12 years 2 months ago #102597 by Lefteris

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Hi. This should not be happening. Have you modified any core K2 code? All the items are processed by the same function so extra fields should be available. Check that you have set up correctly the extra fields related option. In any case you can convert the extra fields to objects by using PHP's json_decode function:

$item->extra_fields = json_decode($item->extra_fields);

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12 years 2 months ago #102598 by Orestis Polychronakis

Replied by Orestis Polychronakis on topic Re: Extra fields problem

Thanks for the quick answer!

I havent modified any core code.
I will check my code and come back.

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12 years 2 months ago #102599 by Tarasiadis Miltos

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I have a problem with the json too for the extra_fields constraction.

All my fields decoded as

"extra_fields": [

    {
        "id": "1",
        "name": "Ημερομηνία Event",
        "value": "Τετάρτη, 05 Σεπτεμβρίου 2012",
        "type": "date",
        "group": "1",
        "published": "1",
        "ordering": "1"
    },
    {
        "id": "5",
        "name": "Facebook Event Page",
        "value": "dfgdfgdfgd",
        "type": "textfield",
        "group": "1",
        "published": "1",
        "ordering": "2"
    }

],

but on some items I have problem and the produced json code is

extra_fields": {

    "0": {
        "id": "1",
        "name": "Ημερομηνία Event",
        "value": "Τρίτη, 04 Σεπτεμβρίου 2012",
        "type": "date",
        "group": "1",
        "published": "1",
        "ordering": "1"
    },
    "2": {
        "id": "6",
        "name": "Facebook Event Album URL",
        "value": "dfgdgdfgd",
        "type": "textfield",
        "group": "1",
        "published": "1",
        "ordering": "3"
    }

},

So in some cases the extra_fields produced as array [] and on some items the extra_fields produced as objects {}.

But the items is on the same category and I fill the same style data on extra fields.
What is happened?

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12 years 2 months ago #102600 by Lefteris

Replied by Lefteris on topic Re: Extra fields problem

Ensure that the category is setup to show the extra fields ("Extra Fields" setting must be set to "Show"). Also check that there are no K2 or content plugins that may modify the extra fields variable.

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12 years 2 months ago #102601 by Tarasiadis Miltos

Replied by Tarasiadis Miltos on topic Re: Extra fields problem

Thanks for your reply.
I have check the category if the option show extra fields is YES and all my categories has it as YES.
The problem is that some k2 items in this category produce json format as the first code sample (Array) and some as object (the second code sample).

I have no extra k2 or joomla plugins enable exept the defaults. My joonla-k2 installation is at the begining state so I have no extra plugins.

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12 years 2 months ago - 12 years 2 months ago #102602 by Tarasiadis Miltos

Replied by Tarasiadis Miltos on topic Re: Extra fields problem

In addition is there any solution to produce the image gallery photos in json format in 2.5.7?
OR how can I reference to the gallery of an item?
Thanks.

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12 years 2 months ago #102603 by Lefteris

Replied by Lefteris on topic Re: Extra fields problem

Can you be more specific on about where do you get the different forms of extra fields? Have you saved manually any data in the database? Regarding the galleries they are saved under /media/k2/galleries/THE_ITEM_ID directory. So if you know the id of the item you can easily fetch the images.

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12 years 2 months ago - 12 years 2 months ago #102604 by Tarasiadis Miltos

Replied by Tarasiadis Miltos on topic Re: Extra fields problem

OK Thanks about the gallery fetch images info. I have understand the method.

About extra fields:
I have a category with extrafields
1. Date Event (Date type)
2. Facebook Event (Textfield type)

So when I add some items from k2 admin, some of them produce the one type of json for extra fields and some items of the same category produce json type of the second example.

I 'm looking now for some error from my side, and I will inform us if something is wrong from my side.

I add the json file that produced from my category items. Look at the last item with id 34 and look at the extrafields and compare with the other items.

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