i was toying with the blocks admin and was thinking about using jquery's toggle() function to show an edit form under each block listed in the table
but then thought about using the modal script i use PiroBox and came up with this

Very nice. Super idea and a needed option....

I like it too
Did you test this with RN or just Nuke? I only ask because although I have played with modal boxes before, I've never used them for form processing and I'm wondering if something like that would work with RN due to the anti-csrf token it posts through the form.

the modal i used for testing on standard nuke uses the old functions all i did was comment out the header.php and graphicadmin function and change the header redirect back to the form on db submission.

ill load up rn and mod the blocks admin

i have it done in rn if anyones intrested i can post a step by step break down of the alterations only takes around 5 mins to modify things

edit number 1 and 2 address the crsf check as we need the header included for this

open header.php
find :

Code: themeheader();

change to

Code: if(!defined('BLOCKEDITFRAME')){themeheader();}

open footer.php
find:

Code: themefooter();

change to

Code: if(!defined('BLOCKEDITFRAME')){themefooter();}

open includes/jquery/jquery.colorbox.php
before the closing tages add:

Code: if(defined('ADMIN_FILE')){ $inlineGJS = '<script> $(window).load(function() { $(".modalblockedit").colorbox({width:"80%", height:"80%", iframe:true}); }); </script>'."\n"; addJSToHead($inlineGJS,'inline'); }

admin/modules/blocks.php
line 238 inline find:

Code: '.$admin_file.'.php?op=BlocksEdit&bid='.$bid[$i].'">'._EDIT.'

before

Code: >'._EDIT.'

add

Code: class="modalblockedit" rel="blocksedit"

line 639 before the herader.php include add

Code: define('BLOCKEDITFRAME',true);

and comment out

Code: GraphicAdmin();

should now look like this

Code:    define('BLOCKEDITFRAME',true);    include_once('header.php');    //GraphicAdmin();

line 931 find:

Code: Header('Location: '.$admin_file.'.php?op=BlocksAdmin');

change to:

Code: Header('Location: '.$admin_file.'.php?op=BlocksEdit&bid='.$bid);

should be all done

Nice! I'll try and give it a spin this week

im sure there is prettier ways to do it but this was a quick mod

Nice! Does it work with HTML blocks and your admin stats addon? (we should just let you redesign the RN admin experience!) Is the image 1 of 14 because you have 14 blocks? Wouldn't it be cool to display a link on the block so an admin could maintain it directly from the box?!

We used the silent nukeNAV block for the popups, but your approach of modifying the header to control whether or not to display the themeheader and themefooter is interesting - maybe we could create a standard defined variable for controlling this, and eliminate the silent module...

Yet another cool use for ColorBox...
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the 1 to 14 if the number of blocks set up active and inactive and yes it works for html blocks it does everything it did before just without the theme header and footer wrapping it
i used the gallery option to group the blocks so you can edit one block and quickly switch to the next.

As for the option to edit blocks from the block its self that would be straight forward enough just edit the blocks function in mainfile to output an admin icon before the content of each block and use it to open the dialog.

there is one thing i missed in this how to.
In the show block function the link needs editing there too otherwise theres an edit block link that doesnt use the modal n the header wont show for this 1

i was thinking maybe adding to the link to control it like this

Code: '.$admin_file.'.php?op=BlocksEdit&bid='.$bid[$i].'&popup=1

that way you decide if its modal or not.

[code]if($popup==1){
define('BLOCKEDITFRAME',true);
}else{
define('BLOCKEDITFRAME',false);
}

While i think on this maybe the addition of edit in place could be used for on the fly block renaming or editing of html blocks from the index or a module page with maybe a delete button to delete or deactivate them also who knows i have lots of ideas for lots of differnt things lol

There was some work done around drag and drop placement of blocks. And there was also some work done (several years ago) around module-specific or other conditions for controlling whether or not a block is displayed.

Just some food for thought...