Typing custom properties?

[Mekk]

It would be nice if I could make some custom property to be shown as a drop-down setting instead of textfield. Any suggestions what could be the easiest way to implement this?

(my use case: I want to introduce some article classifier - "normal", "short", "wide" - to be used in .tpl and .css to pick different layouts)

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

That's hard because it would lead to endlessly long configuration fields in the custom entryproperties plugin. The contactform plugin is a good example for such bad configuration syntax.

The best way is to create your own event plugin listening in backend_entry hook and emitting your dropdowns and store them in th e entryproperties DB table.

Regards,
Garvin