Hey,
Loving the plugin so far... I am a designer more than a developer so I feel like im missing out on alot of the true functionality it can do. The forum support has been great but I'd really like to try and learn how to really implement the hooks, filters and the field to dynamically populate fields.
is there any kind of documentation available that explains things in a more simple term for someone like me?
Thanks,
Brian
The easiest thing for us is to help you by answering a question. When you get to a point where you feel like you need to do more, please post a topic with a specific question and what you're trying to accomplish, and we will help you by pointing you in the right direction with specific examples.
The developer docs are always good reading as well to get an idea of what can be done.
The easiest thing for us is to help you by answering a question. When you get to a point where you feel like you need to do more, please post a topic with a specific question and what you're trying to accomplish, and we will help you by pointing you in the right direction with specific examples.
The developer docs are always good reading as well to get an idea of what can be accomplished.
Thanks Chris... posting and getting responses has definitely been very helpful...
Being 100% honest though reading the developer docs is kinda foreign to me.. in the sense that I can understand what each tag does, but it doesnt really explain how to make it work in a way that makes sense to someone who doesnt know about more developer based thing.. Im sure if i showed it to my programmer friends, it'd make more sense... but what I liked about the CSSReady Classes Docs is it how it literally shows you "put this here to get it to look like this" whereas it seems the developer docs seems to require more knowledge beyond my skill set.
Like the calendar thing i asked about earlier where rather than 12 i want the form to display December... i know you pointed me towards which form filter to use, but the page you sent doesnt really make sense to me in HOW to implement it. does that make sense?
Reading the Developer Docs won't be the best way to learn about hooks and filters.
The Developer Documentation purely documents the available Gravity Forms hooks, filters and provides an example for each. If you don't understand WordPress hook and filter usage it's definitely going to be foreign to you.
As I mentioned in my reply to one of your other forum posts, the CSS Ready Class documentation is much easier to follow because the CSS Ready Classes are a built in feature and the usage simply involves inserting the Ready Class in the appropriate field option.
Customizations via hooks and filters are not so simple to explain because they are customizations and they could be virtually anything you want them to be.
The best way to learn about hooks and filters will be to read tutorials on WordPress hook and filter usage, maybe buy a book on WordPress development and then get your hands dirty playing around with some WordPress hooks and filters for basic things to get a handle on how they work and what they do.
Here are some tutorials that you can check out online:
http://wpcandy.com/teaches/custom-hooks-and-pluggable-functions
http://www.nathanrice.net/blog/an-introduction-to-wordpress-action-hooks/
As for books, I can highly recommend this one:
http://www.amazon.com/Professional-WordPress-Plugin-Development-Williams/dp/0470916222
That is a book on WordPress Plugin development but plugins are essentially custom code that make use of WordPress hooks and filters to enhance, customize and add new functionality to WordPress itself. So the concepts are the same.
Thank you Carl!
