I’ve tried playing with the priority of the ‘attachment_fields_to_edit’ filter to no success.

It feels like it must be an order of operations issue, but I just can’t track down where this would be occuring.

any help would be super appreciated.

This is the code I use to generate the image gallery field:

function my_gallery_metabox()
{
    $prefix = 'my_';

    $cpt_page_options = new_cmb2_box(array(
        'id' => $prefix . 'single_gallery',
        'title' => __('Gallery', 'text-domain'),
        'object_types' => array('my-cpt'),
        'context' => 'side',
    ));

    $cpt_page_options->add_field(array(
        'id' => $prefix . 'gallery_options_files',
        'name' => __('Seleziona/carica immagini', 'text-domain'),
        'desc' => __('desc', 'text-domain'),
        'type' => 'file_list',
        // Optional, override default text strings
        'text' => array(
            'add_upload_files_text' => __('Aggiungi o carica file', 'text-domain'), // default: "Add or Upload Files"
            'remove_image_text' => __('Rimuovi immagine', 'text-domain'), // default: "Remove Image"
            'file_text' => __('File', 'text-domain'), // default: "File:"
            'file_download_text' => __('Scarica', 'text-domain'), // default: "Download"
            'remove_text' => __('Rimuovi', 'text-domain'), // default: "Remove"
        ),
    ));
}

Thank you

anyone know how i’m able to count the attached images in the file_list and echo this number based on the post ID.

Searched everywere but doesn’t seem to be able to find an answer/solution to my question. Can’t believe i’m the only one trying to archive this.

Thanks!

When I view the json data in the wp-json/v2/ the order for the images remains based on id.

Any suggestions for how I can access the data for the reordering I did in the WP-Admin?

Thanks,
Dave

I downloaded my DB so I could look at how the data is being stored for a file_list.
Some of it I can understand:

(2466, 768, '_cmb_file_list', '
	a:2:{
		i:770; //image ID
		s:86:"https://www.mydomain.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/xxx.jpg";
		i:721; //image ID
		s:89:"https://www.mydomain.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/yyy.jpg";
	}
'),

I understand how to use update_post_meta, and I understand how to get the ID and the URL for the photos saved in the older “file” CMB field types.

In the above data, I’m not sure what the “a:2” and the “s:86” and the “s:89” signify.

Can you advise me how I could use update_post_meta or another function to move image data from a series of “file” objects to a single “file_list”?

I appreciate it!

Thanks

$cmb->add_field( array(
  'name'    => 'Test File',
    'desc'    => 'Upload an image or enter an URL.',
    'id'      =>  'featIcon1_phm1',
    'type'    => 'file',
    'options' => array(
        'url' => false,
        'add_upload_file_text' => 'Add File',  ),
) );

And this is how I retrieve the url from the field:

$image = wp_get_attachment_image( get_post_meta( get_the_ID(),  'featIcon1_phm1', 1 ), 'medium' );
echo $image;

There’s another problem too. I’m having this field in a metabox that only shows on a certain page template. That means that I don’t want to supply a fixed ID to the wp_get_attachment_image method because the field will be used on many pages as that share the same template. Besides, even pages that share the same template still have different IDs. I have the following parameter in my metabox array;

'show_on' => array( 'key' => 'page-template', 'value' => 'page-home-one.php' ),

Any clues?

I already managed to update/create a custom post type with custom fields from the front end using the WP REST API. Now I am trying to add a multi image uploader to the form using the field type: file_list but with no success.

The important thing in WP API is to expose the custom fields to the API. I managed to do that for a simple custom field like text: Say the key is “_item_price” and the post type is “forsale”

add_action( 'rest_api_init', function() {
  register_api_field( 'forsale',
    '_item_price',
    array(
      'get_callback'	=> 'slug_get_itemprice',
      'update_callback'	=> 'slug_update_itemprice',
      'schema'		=> null
    )
  );
});

function slug_get_itemprice( $object, $field_name, $request ) {
  return get_post_meta( $object['id'], $field_name );
} // function slug_get_itemprice

function slug_update_itemprice( $value, $object, $field_name ) {
  return update_post_meta( $object->ID, $field_name, strip_tags( $value)
);
} // function slug_update_itemprice

That works fine, I can save a new item price of a product from the front end AJAX with something easy like:

formData.append('_item_price', price);

Now I would like to do the same with a file_list field say it is key is “_item_images”, but I think I am stuck with the update_post_meta since I am not sure how you save this type of data.

Your help is appreciated.

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