populate checkbox_list with related type or term

Try this:

<?php
// This code should be in a file named "alt_related_type_field" in the folder "field_types" of Magic-Fields-2
// You also need to provide icon_color.png, icon_gray.png and preview.png which you can temporarily borrow
// from its siblings for now.

// initialisation
global $mf_domain;

// class with static properties encapsulating functions for the field type

class alt_related_type_field extends mf_custom_fields {

  public $allow_multiple = TRUE;
  public $has_properties = TRUE;

  public function _update_description(){
    global $mf_domain;
    $this->description = __("Checkbox list that lets a user select ONE or MORE related posts of a given post type.",$mf_domain);
  }

  public function _options(){
    global $mf_domain;

    $posttypes = $this->mf_get_post_types();
    $select = array();
    foreach($posttypes as $k => $v){
      $select[$k] = $v->label;
    }

    $data = array(
      'option'  => array(
        'post_type'  => array(
          'type'        =>  'select',
          'id'          =>  'post_type',
          'label'       =>  __('Related Type Panel (Post type)',$mf_domain),
          'name'        =>  'mf_field[option][post_type]',
          'default'     =>  '',
          'options'     => $select,
          'add_empty'   => false,
          'description' =>  '',
          'value'       =>  '',
          'div_class'   => '',
          'class'       => ''
        ),
        'field_order'  => array(
          'type'        =>  'select',
          'id'          =>  'field_order',
          'label'       =>  __('Field for order of Related type',$mf_domain),
          'name'        =>  'mf_field[option][field_order]',
          'default'     =>  '',
          'options'     => array('id' => 'ID','title' =>'Title'),
          'add_empty'   => false,
          'description' =>  '',
          'value'       =>  '',
          'div_class'   => '',
          'class'       => ''
        ),
        'order'  => array(
          'type'        =>  'select',
          'id'          =>  'order',
          'label'       =>  __('Order of Related type',$mf_domain),
          'name'        =>  'mf_field[option][order]',
          'default'     =>  '',
          'options'     => array('asc' => 'ASC','desc' =>'DESC'),
          'add_empty'   => false,
          'description' =>  '',
          'value'       =>  '',
          'div_class'   => '',
          'class'       => ''
        )
      )
    );

    return $data;
  }

  public function display_field($field, $group_index = 1, $field_index = 1){
    $output = '';
    $check_post_id = null;
    if( !empty($_REQUEST['post'])) {
      $check_post_id = $_REQUEST['post'];
    }

    $values = array();
    if($check_post_id){
      $values = ($field['input_value']) ? (is_serialized($field['input_value']))? unserialize($field['input_value']): (array)$field['input_value'] : array() ;
    }

    $type        = $field['options']['post_type'];
    $order       = $field['options']['order'];
    $field_order = $field['options']['field_order'];

    $options = get_posts( sprintf("post_type=%s&numberposts=-1&order=%s&orderby=%s&suppress_filters=0",$type,$order,$field_order) );
	$option_ids = [];
	foreach($options as $option) {
      $option_is[] = $option->ID;
	}
    $output = '<div class="mf-checkbox-list-box" >';

      foreach($values as &$val){
        $val = trim($val);
      }

    foreach($options as $option){
      $check = in_array($option->ID, $values) ? 'checked="checked"' : '';

      $output .= sprintf('<label for="%s_%s" class="selectit mf-checkbox-list">',$field['input_id'],$option->ID);
      $output .= sprintf('<input tabindex="3" class="checkbox_list_mf" id="%s_%s" name="%s[]" value="%s" type="checkbox" %s %s />',
					$field['input_id'],$option->ID,$field['input_name'],$option->ID,$check,$field['input_validate']);
      $output .= esc_attr($option->post_title);
      $output .= '</label>';
    }

    $output .= '</div>';
	#error_log( "##### alt_related_type_field::display_field() returns $output\n" );
    return $output;
  }

}

Thanks,

It seems thit works fine! I’ll update you if I find any bugs!

I’m planning to have a page with all custom_post_type listed. The user can check which post_type to display in front page.

Nice

Thanks,

It seems thit works fine! I’ll update you if I find any bugs!

I’m planning to have a page with all custom_post_type listed. The user can check which post_type to display in front page.

Nice

Hi Magenta Cuda,

I have copied the code but it says that there’s an error on line 94:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘[‘

$option_ids = []; This is the code on line 94.

Can you help me?

Thanks!

You are probably running an older version of PHP. The short array syntax which replaces array() with [] requires at least PHP 5.4. Is it possible for you to upgrade your PHP server? Otherwise you can just replace [] with array(). Incidentally, I have made this code available in a plugin. Of course the plugin also requires PHP 5.4 so it can only help you if you upgrade your PHP server.