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  • February 13, 2019 at 6:37 PM #13305
    pluginovenpluginoven
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    I am attempting to automatically create filters on the front end based on some back-end metaboxes. facet-wp is not being used as it's too much overhead for this simple use.

    The fields to be used as filters are flagged as as such using is_filter during the field creation like so:

    'fields' => array(
    array(
        'name'  => __('Gender', 'text-domain'),
        'desc'  => '',
        'id'    => 'user_gender',
        'type'  => 'select',
        'options'    => array(
                        'Male'      => __('Male', 'text-domain'),
                        'Female'    => __('Female', 'text-domain'),
                        'Diverse'   => __('Diverse', 'text-domain'),
                    ),
        'attributes' => array(
                        'required'  => true,
                        'mod_lock'  => true,
                        'is_filter' => true,
                    ),
   ),
)

    Is there a recommended way of selecting all fields that have is_filter set?
    This following is working, but maybe there is a better method?

    $meta_box_objects = rwmb_get_registry( 'meta-box' )->all();
foreach ( $meta_box_objects as $meta_box_object ) {
    $fields = $meta_box_object->fields;
    foreach($fields as $field){
        if(!empty($field['attributes']['is_filter'])){
            //filter field found
            $content .= $field['id'].'<br/>';
        }
    }
}

    rwmb_get_registry is not very well documented, so maybe there is a more efficient method?

    February 14, 2019 at 10:12 AM #13318
    Anh TranAnh Tran
    Keymaster

    Updated answer:

    Your code is the correct one. I'm adding docs for rwmb_get_registry here.

    February 15, 2019 at 1:10 AM #13349
    pluginovenpluginoven
    Participant

    According to the new documentation (thank you, for this) I should be able to simply create an has_filter argument for the $meta_boxes object like so:

    $meta_boxes[] = array(
            'id'         => 'gender_box',
            'title'      => __('Gender', 'text-domain'),
            'post_types' => 'some_post_type',
            'context'    => 'normal',
            'priority'   => 'high',
            'has_filter'  => true,

            'fields' => array( 
                ...
            ),
)

    and then grab only the meta_boxes that contain this new argument using the get_by method:

    $args = [
    'has_filter'   => true,
];
$meta_box_objects = rwmb_get_registry( 'meta-box' )->get_by( $args );

    All fields in each returned meta_box will still need to be looped through in order to check for the specific attribute. But at least this way I do not need to loop all meta_boxs. However, there is no way to directly get only the fields that have a specific attribute set, correct?

    February 17, 2019 at 1:35 PM #13382
    Anh TranAnh Tran
    Keymaster

    I'm afraid that's right.

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