Items Manager - ver: 1.4

[alienee2]

Re: fancy urls for items manager

I managed to get the items manager to display the items without the "?item=" part of the URL;

not sure if i did it the best way, but it seems to be working:

first i deleted the "?item=" from line 227 of the display-items.php
227

Code:

$url = $SITEURL.$item_file_details."/?item=".$url;

replaced with
227

Code:

$url = $SITEURL.$item_file_details."/".$url;

then i added this rule to the htaccess, where 'items' is the slug where you display the item details.

Code:

RewriteRule ^items/([^/.]+)/?$ /items/?item=$1 [L]

also figured out how to have the items display in reverse alphabetical by changing line 204 from 'asort' to 'arsort';
this could be useful if you wanted to display items with the most recent at the top;
you could name the items like "(2011-11-12) Item Name", and then use custom fields to manage your item title, keeping the default title field for sorting and the page slug. Actually if there was a way to specify a custom page slug that would be helpful, rather than it having to use the item title.

Another bug that I discovered with this is that the plugin doesn't seem to like custom fields with a '-' in the name of the field, for example "album-title"; Seems that it won't recognize/disply fields with this dash; so i'm using underscores;

So the remaining bugs that I'm aware of are:
1.) the stripslashes problem with the items editor (the slashes seem to get added after editing/saving an item - I was able to remove them from the XML file and the items display fine); currently can't put any links inside of a WYSIWYG field or the plugin strips the link...

2.) the '-' problem with the custom fields

3.) one other thing is that the plugin should prevent users from creating a field called 'title' since that seems to already be in use, and could mess things up if there were 2 fields with the same name...

-marc