Hi
Following the thread on CB activity css in a new post.
My wish would be to simplify our website by slowing phasing out hotspots component for CB activity use only (and we would display a map for spots later on an iOS/android application map via api to retrieve CB info)
It seems like this could be feasible with all CB triggers and features but I would like to have your ideas before on all this.
Main point is that I’d like to use the main CB activity post area for everything, thus combining hotspots creation and community activity.
My idea is that when clicking on What’s on your mind ? this would display a new area or big button called « Activate something you know »
Clicking on this area would :
- 1 open a click or drag and drop zone to uploads photos/videos/ (compulsory to have one photo at least)
- 2 at the same time automatically record the location of the user or if geolocation is not authorized open the share location area for the user to insert the address (compulsory area)
- 3 show a title field and a message field (both compulsory to fill)
- 5 show a CB field select field cb_marketevents
- 6 show a select field for an hotspots category retrieved via API (see under) (later on will be a CB field CB_hotspot_category) (compulsory)
- 7 leave the user the ability to add other features from CB activity (theme, doing, feeling, share files etc)
Post processing would :
- save the images/media as usual in CB but with linked geolocation, address, and CB fields saved (message, title, event, category …)
- give it a special asset number, for instance : hotspots.idhotspots.ideventsselected.idCBcategoryselected
- display the asset in a special modal page with the linked event and cb fields also displayed when clicking on media/images/title. We need to customize this page to add explanations or use a new external page on which we’ll add the event and informations (example :
activ-ha.com/c/86:conseils-societes-de-services/4271:safigec
)
- (for now and for transition) send the images and data to hotspots API with
activ-ha.com/index.php?option=com_hotspots&view=api&request=marker&format=raw&onlyLoggedIn=true
(that’s for the use of hotspots component)
Our idea would be to slowly move from hotspots to CB activity only and then later on retrieve all CB activity data spots to be displayed on a iOS/android application map.
Moving to a single CB component would be much more easier to maintain if this is feasible.
Can you tell me your feeling on all this ? Is this feasible with CB ? and what would be the trigger to use ?
Thanks a lot
API hotspots data function and category retrieval :
Code:
public function save()
{
$user = JFactory::getUser();
$data = $this->input->get('data', '', 'raw');
$images = $this->input->get('images', '', 'raw');
if (empty($data))
{
return $this->getError(404, 'Error No data for field creation');
}
if (empty($images))
{
$images = array();
}
$table = JTable::getInstance('Marker', 'Table');
$hotspot = json_decode($data, true);
$images = json_decode($images);
$isOwn = true;
$isNew = empty($hotspot->id);
if (empty($hotspot['created_by']))
{
$hotspot['created_by'] = $user->id;
}
else if ($hotspot['created_by'] != $user->id)
{
$isOwn = false;
}
if (empty($hotspot['id']) && !HotspotsHelperSecurity::authorise('create'))
{
return $this->getError(403, 'No permission to save / update hotspot.');
}
else if (!empty($hotspot['id']) && $isOwn && !HotspotsHelperSecurity::authorise('edit.own', $hotspot))
{
return $this->getError(403, 'No permission to edit own hotspot.');
}
else if (!empty($hotspot['id']) && !HotspotsHelperSecurity::authorise('edit', $hotspot))
{
return $this->getError(403, 'No permission to edit not own hotspot.');
}
// Import the appropriate plugin group.
JPluginHelper::importPlugin('hotspots');
$appl = JFactory::getApplication();
if (!$table->bind($hotspot))
{
return array('error', $table->getError());
}
$appl->triggerEvent('onContentBeforeSave', array('com_hotspots.hotspot', $hotspot));
// Alias Handling
if (empty($table->alias))
{
if (JFactory::getConfig()->get('unicodeslugs') == 1)
{
$table->alias = JFilterOutput::stringURLUnicodeSlug($table->title);
}
else
{
$table->alias = JFilterOutput::stringURLSafe($table->title);
}
}
$hotspotTable = JTable::getInstance('Marker', 'Table');
while ($hotspotTable->load(array('alias' => $table->alias, 'catid' => $table->catid)))
{
$table->alias = StringHelper::increment($table->alias, 'dash');
}
if (!$table->store())
{
return array('error', $table->getError());
}
$appl->triggerEvent('onContentAfterSave', array('com_hotspots.hotspot', $hotspot, $isNew));
$table->checkIn();
$hotspotId = $table->id;
$targetPath = JPATH_CACHE . '/com_hotspots.multimedia/lib_compojoom.multimedia/';
if (!JFolder::exists($targetPath))
{
JFolder::create($targetPath);
}
JModelLegacy::addIncludePath(JPATH_ADMINISTRATOR . '/components/com_hotspots/models');
JPluginHelper::importPlugin('hotspots');
/** @var HotspotsModelMultimedia $multimediaModel */
$multimediaModel = JModelLegacy::getInstance('Multimedia', 'HotspotsModel');
// Save images first
foreach ($images as $image)
{
$fileName = $image->filename;
$content = $image->content;
list($type, $content) = explode(';', $content);
list(, $content) = explode(',', $content);
$content = base64_decode($content);
// We use file put content here
$imageFile = $targetPath . '/' . $fileName;
file_put_contents($imageFile, $content);
$meta = array();
$meta[$fileName]['title'] = $fileName;
$meta[$fileName]['description'] = '';
$appl->triggerEvent('onMultimediaBeforeUpload', array($table->get('id'), array($fileName), $meta));
$multimediaModel->uploadPermanent($hotspotId, array($fileName), $meta);
$appl->triggerEvent('onMultimediaAfterUpload', array($table->get('id'), array($fileName), $meta));
}
return array('id' => $hotspotId);
}
protected function loadCategories($search = null, $catId = null, $offset = 0, $limit = 0, $orderBy = 'c.title ASC')
{
$query = $this->db->getQuery(true);
$query->select('c.*')
->from('#__categories as c')
->where('c.published = 1');
if (!empty($search))
{
$query->where('c.title LIKE \'%' . $this->db->escape($search) . '%\'');
}
if (!empty($catId))
{
if (is_array($catId))
{
$catId = implode(',', $catId);
}
$query->where('c.id IN (' . $catId . ')');
}
// Permissions
$groups = implode(',', JFactory::getUser()->getAuthorisedViewLevels());
$query->where('c.access IN (' . $groups . ')');
// Filter only for categories of Matukio
$query->where("c.extension = 'com_hotspots'");
$query->order($this->db->escape($orderBy));
$this->db->setQuery($query, $offset, $limit);
return $this->db->loadObjectList();
}
/**
* Remove things we don't want to expose through the API
*
* @param array $categories Categories
*
* @return array
*
* @since 6.1.2
*/
protected function cleanupCategories($categories)
{
if (empty($categories))
{
return null;
}
// Files
foreach ($categories as $category)
{
unset($category->lft);
unset($category->rgt);
unset($category->asset_id);
unset($category->note);
unset($category->checked_out);
unset($category->checked_out_time);
unset($category->created_user_id);
unset($category->created_time);
unset($category->modified_user_id);
unset($category->modified_time);
unset($category->hits);
}
return $categories;
}
krileon
