Feature request - edit the php in the builder

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September 20, 2023 at 7:42 AM #43285

Yasmine
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Hey recently I have found the builder to be very slow. I am finding it really hard to drag fields into the right space, they take some seconds to shift and often go to the wrong spot (I have a very big form). And I am also finding it hard to open the fields to edit their settings. I therefore copied the php and did all my edits on that. I now realise I should have made them on a json file..

It would be incredible if we could replace the php generated on the builder with an edited version. Or edit directly into the code, and for those changes to then show in the builder! Not sure if possible - but would be very handy.

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September 20, 2023 at 11:15 PM #43297

Peter
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Hello,

If you have too many fields in a field group the processing time maybe slowdown. You can generate the field group to PHP code and add the code to the file functions.php in the theme/child theme folder and manage the fields.
Read more in the documentation https://docs.metabox.io/extensions/meta-box-builder/#getting-php-code

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September 21, 2023 at 10:04 PM #43313

Yasmine
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Ok, thanks Peter. I will use the php.

However, I now have two questions:

1. For my radio fields it generates like 'options' => [__( 'One{/translate}', '{translate}Multiple', 'your-text-domain' )], - without my values. But my conditional logic is based on the values not the labels. Is this an error and do I need to edit the php to be something like: 'options' => [
'0' => __( 'One', 'your-text-domain' ),
'1' => __( 'Multiple', 'your-text-domain' )
],

2. Are the fields still serialized when I do it this way?

Thanks,
Yasmine

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September 23, 2023 at 10:58 AM #43330
Peter
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Hello,

1. Yes, you should add the option like that
```
'options' => [
'0' => __( 'One', 'your-text-domain' ),
'1' => __( 'Multiple', 'your-text-domain' )
],
```
2. Yes, the field value is not affected when you use the gettext function to display the label.

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