New Plugin - CustomFields

[TheBlueOne]

Hi all, first time posting, although I've had my eye on GetSimple for a while.

I'm developing a website for a client and was about to use my old standby CMS, but with this plugin I could possibly use GS. It's for an architect who has about forty odd projects he wants to feature, so I figured with a CustomFields plugin I could give him fields to plugin in "Project Name" "location" "Project Type", etc. for each of them

I'm trying to get this plugin working and I'm having a bit of a problem.

I can install the plugin with no problem and I see the fields boxes when I go to create a new page in the in the admin.

But nothing I do seems to let me display the info in the rendered template.

For example I created a custom field:

Code:

<item>
    <desc>projectname</desc>
    <label>Project Name</label>
    <type>text</type>
</item>

So in the template I put:

Code:

<?php returnCustomField('projectname'); ?>

correct? or do I use "getCustomField"? I'm a php noob and have no idea what the difference is...

Either way though, I've done both it returns nothing on the page.

Also, do I add ALL my custom fields in the "customfields.xml" file?

And if I do this:

Code:

<item>
<desc>pagetype</desc>
<label>Page Type (Blog/Gallery) </label>
<type>dropdown</type>

blog
gallery
</item>

as per the example on your blog, the dropdown box in the page admin is blank.

And once I get this working what are the html tags for the displayed custom fields? What are the css hooks so I can style them?

And lastly is there a character limit to the "text" option? And if so, can that be changed?

Thanks for your patience with my zillion questions.