Coding Panda

@mullerroland

It looks like the repeater field’s columns are not available. Is it possible to export the related Pods for me to investigate?

Yes, it is possible. Please follow the videos. The videos are for an old version of Pods, but the principle still applies.

Apologies, due to various data saved in the repeater field, there is currently no frontend display available.

OK. Thanks.

?? Brilliant.

I will look into it when I am less busy.

I noticed a mistake. Please update the function this this:

function display_book_chapters( $args ){ 
	if( isset( $args['id'] ) ){
		$chapters = pods_field( 'book', $args['id'], 'chapter' ); 
		if( ! empty( $chapters ) ){	
			foreach( $chapters as $i => $chapter ){
				echo '<div>';
				echo $chapter['name'];
				$pdf_url = wp_get_attachment_url( $chapter['pdf'] );
				if( $pdf_url ){
					echo '<a href="' . $pdf_url . '">PDF</a>';
				}
				echo '</div>' ;
			}	
		}
	}
}

Is 336 an ID of a book page?

You can update the function to check if the chapters are available.

function display_book_chapters( $id ){ 

	$chapters = pods_field( 'book', $id, 'chapter' ); 
	if( ! empty( $chapters ) ){	
		foreach( $chapters as $i => $chapter ){
			echo '<div>';
			echo $chapter['name'];
			$pdf_url = wp_get_attachment_url( $chapter['pdf'] );
			if( $pdf_url ){
				echo '<a href="' . $pdf_url . '">PDF</a>';
			}
			echo '</div>' ;
		}	
	}
	
}

I think the problem is that {post_id} doesn’t pass in the correct post id into the shortcode. You can test it by echoing {post_id} without the shortcode, and contact Bricks if necessary.

I don’t think $post_id can be used before declaring it. You could try {post_id}.

the Repeater is not a post type. It is a field of a Pod which can be a post type.

Use it in the template: [display_book_chapters id={post_id}]

I couldn’t get the correct post_id to pass into the shortcode. You know Bricks, would you give it a go? Here is the shortcode:

function display_book_chapters( $id ){ 

	$chapters = pods_field( 'book', $id, 'chapter' ); 
	
	foreach( $chapters as $i => $chapter ){
		echo '<div>';
		echo $chapter['name'];
		$pdf_url = wp_get_attachment_url( $chapter['pdf'] );
		if( $pdf_url ){
			echo '<a href="' . $pdf_url . '">PDF</a>';
		}
		echo '</div>' ;
	}	
	
}

add_shortcode( 'display_book_chapters', 'display_book_chapters' );

Use it in the template:

[display_book_chapters id={post_id}]

• This reply was modified 1 year, 5 months ago by Coding Panda.

@dizplay I tried to pass the post id into the shortcode, but {post_id} always returns 1. Do you know how to get the current page ID?

Thanks for the detailed instructions. Can it be a shortcode in functions.php, and then add the shortcode to the template?

@dizplay Sorry, I don’t to want publish an admin login details. I need more instructions. Do I do these:

1. Create an advance content type for the repeater field (what is the name of the advance content type?)
2. Create a table based Book post type
3. Create a panda repeater field to use the advance content type

Which page do I need to edit?

Hi, @dizplay. OK. Thanks to Bricks, I got a copy. I am new to Bricks. How do I get to that screen? Do you have a pods json package for me to import?

I can try. How do you want to use the plugin? Backend or Frontend?