zikula-modules/MediaModule

Provide content types

Guite opened this issue · 9 comments

Guite commented

It would be nice to have some content types for integration.

  1. A single medium
    I've seen there is a Scribite integration already. A content type offers more sophisticated possibilities regarding positioning and styling though (there are use cases where a dedicated content element is more useful).
  2. A collection
    In SimpleMedia there is a content type for including a list of media items filtered by a category. I do not know yet if this module supports categories, too, but there are collections.
    It should be possible to add a list of media items based on a selected template. This allows for including galleries, sliders and other things into Content pages.
cmfcmf commented

I played around with content types for a bit but can't currently make it work for two reasons:

  1. Content expects content type class names to be "Module_ContentType_Name" and doesn't support namespaced content types.
  2. Content forces content types to use Smarty + Zikula Forms + static methods.

I'll postpone this until Content has been updated to support service-based content types and is decoupled from Zikula forms.

Guite commented

Fine for me. Just wanted to ensure that this feature will not be forgotten. We should aim for a Content rewrite asap (being aware that this is currently blocked by the generator being updated to Twig and Symfony Forms ;-)).

rallek commented

Content plugin is very important for me. I am using it intensively on my pggo site. Here it would be needed similar to media share

MrMontesa commented

Just stubled upon this issue and would like to vote up +1.
MediaModule is the defacto standard for image handling for 1.4.x going forward. And Content is the main texting tool. I would love to include
a) single image into my Content pages
b) have 4-5 pics teaser thumbnails linking to a collection from within Content

Previously I used MediaShare which provides these 2 features. link to content_types_api

craigh commented

the problem is that Content will not run on Core-2.0

rallek commented

@cmfcmf told during the Camp Zikula 2016 Media Module will only have code for 1.4/2.0 core to be a valid example for other module developers. The content code would be possible but legacy.

But there could be a solution until Content is transfered into the new century: We should ask Christian to provide blocks. So we would be able to use the specified blocks within Content. That is not comfortable but a work around.

@MrMontesa: please create tickets with the block description you might need. I am shure Christian will try to implement these.

Guite commented

Currently working on Content 5.0 for Zikula 2. Going to reference docs and examples for new content types implementation as soon as the interface is fixed.

Guite commented

Content 5 beta has been released. The new ContentTypeInterface can be considered as stable now.