Hello,

First off.. I just want to say this is a great module. I haven’t taken the time to look into everything yet or really play around with it.. But I was wondering if any creative minds here can be of service to this inquiry. =)

Let’s say I have this website that allows people to store items into their profile. Is their some possible way I can allow a unique excerpt or something that is stored with each save? I don’t know how I’d do this.. Somehow pull the ID of the item they saved or something and make some type of custom form? Would I be using something like the freeform module to do this and use the ID of saved favorite as one of the fields or something? Does Favorites use its own table or something to store data?

To be more specific, let’s say I have this toy catalog site that allows people to save their favorite entries into their post. I want a field that would allow them to store a little note to say what they think of the toy, and also specify if they own it or not.

Hopefully that clears things up. Any ideas is appreciated.

Cheers,
Danny

Danny,

This is a VERY nice idea!
I’d imagine this wouldn’t be that hard of a feature to implement either. (you’re on your own though)
Favorites does have it’s own database for recording the Favorites.

I will submit this as a feature request

Just so we’re on the track, would you recommend me go using Freeform for this? I’ve never played around with it yet, but to be honest, I wouldn’t have the least bit of an idea on how to do this myself at the current moment, although I’m sure I can somehow figure it out by passing the favorites ID (which I assume is the weblog entry id?) into the form as a hidden field or something and than running a query to find the identical id during the favorites call in the profile?

By the way, Pie Man.. I’m considering doing this on a little personal project of mine for Transformers toys.. Yes I know, how nerdy of me.

mr_dimsum - 08 July 2008 10:04 AM

Just so we’re on the track, would you recommend me go using Freeform for this?

Freeform and Favorites are two seperate things, and they will not work together here

mr_dimsum - 08 July 2008 10:04 AM

I’ve never played around with it yet, but to be honest, I wouldn’t have the least bit of an idea on how to do this myself at the current moment, although I’m sure I can somehow figure it out by passing the favorites ID (which I assume is the weblog entry id?) into the form as a hidden field or something and than running a query to find the identical id during the favorites call in the profile?

Each Favorite added has it’s own unique ID, which collects the Weblog Entry ID, Author ID, Member ID, Site ID, etc

Although, the more I think about this, it might be a little difficult to implement a Notes feature, as it would require a change of how this would be done. Currently, the process is done by linking to another template, where it grabs the Entry ID from the URL.

Submitting a note with it would require a Form submittal… it’s still a feature request though

mr_dimsum - 08 July 2008 10:04 AM

By the way, Pie Man.. I’m considering doing this on a little personal project of mine for Transformers toys.. Yes I know, how nerdy of me.

Yes, hit yourself for me, haha

Damn it, I guess I’ll have to put this on the backburner for now. >.< Thanks for the help anyway. Good feature request.. If you know what’s good for you, add it to the top! *shakes fist* Since I’m a fellow Canadian living in Ottawa, hook a brotha up! *jokes*

Haha,

Hey, I’m all over this too!