Meta Box

Hi Cararina,

Sorry for long response, we're still in progress to improving Conditional Logic. As this plugin uses Javascript to handle visibility of object and have to check many field conditional to generate results so it's hard to implements now. In your case, we'll have two ways to make it works natively:

1. Save it as cel_product_apple, cel_product_android or cel_product_windowsphone in DB then use fone_id to check what's field to output.

2. Save cel_product_apple, cel_product_android or cel_product_windowsphone in DB, then create another hidden field named cel_product, when post is saved, we also save the visible field to cel_product as an serialized array, then use unserialize function to show up.

Example (2),

add_filter( 'rwmb_meta_boxes', function( $meta_boxes )
{
	$meta_boxes[] = array(
		'id' 			=> 'brand_product',
		'title' 		=> 'Brands and Products',
		'post_types' 	=> array( 'post', 'page' ),
		'context'		=> 'normal',
		'priority'		=> 'high',
		'fields' => array(
			array(
				'id'	=> 'fone_id',
				'name'	=> 'Brand',
				'desc'	=> 'Pick Your Favourite Brand',
				'type'	=> 'select',
				'options' => array(
					'apple' 		=> 'Apple',
					'android' 		=> 'Android',
					'windowsphone' 	=> 'WindowsPhone'
				)
			),
			array(
				'id' 	=> 'cel_product',
				'type' 	=> 'hidden',
			),
			array(
				'id' 	=> 'cel_product_apple',
				'name'	=> 'Select your apple product?',
				'type'	=> 'checkbox_list',
				'options' => array('iPhone', 'iPad', 'iPod'),
				'visible' => array( 'fone_id', 'apple' )
			),
			array(
				'id' 	=> 'cel_product_android',
				'name'	=> 'Select your android product?',
				'type'	=> 'checkbox_list',
				'options' => array('Galaxy', 'ZenPhone', 'Tablet'),
				'visible' => array( 'fone_id', 'android' )
			),
			array(
				'id' 	=> 'cel_product_windowsphone',
				'name'	=> 'Select your apple product?',
				'type'	=> 'checkbox_list',
				'options' => array( 'Nokia', 'Galaxy' ),
				'visible' => array( 'fone_id', 'windowsphone' )
			)
		)
	);
	return $meta_boxes;
} );

add_action('rwmb_before_save_post', function($post_id)
{
	// Get person ID to save from "Select a Customer" field
	$metabox_to_save = $_POST['fone_id'];

	// Save related field to phone field
	if ( ! empty( $_POST["cel_product_{$metabox_to_save}"] ) )
		$_POST['cel_product'] = serialize( $_POST["cel_product_{$metabox_to_save}"] );

	// Clear all hidden meta boxes
	foreach ( array('apple', 'android', 'windowsphone') as $field )
	{
		if ( $field !== $metabox_to_save )
			unset( $_POST["cel_product_{$field}"] );
	}
} );

To retrieve values in front end, just use:

$cel_products = unserialize( rwmb_meta('cel_product') );

Best regards

Tan Nguyen

Dear Justin,

I've checked with and it works, can you please tell me what's version you're using and provide your code to register meta boxes and define conditional logic?

Here's my snippet for example:

add_filter( 'rwmb_meta_boxes', function( $meta_boxes )
{
	$meta_boxes[] = array(
		'id' => 'brand_product',
		'title' => 'Brands and Products',
		'post_types' => array( 'post', 'page' ),
		'context'	=> 'normal',
		'priority'	=> 'high',
		'fields' => array(
			array(
				'id' => 'show_checkboxlist',
				'name' => 'Show Checkbox List',
				'desc' => 'Show Checkbox List when this checkbox is checked',
				'type' => 'checkbox'
			),
			array(
				'id'	=> 'brand',
				'name'	=> 'Brand',
				'desc'	=> 'Pick Your Favourite Brand',
				'type'	=> 'checkbox_list',
				'options' => array(
					'Apple' 		=> 'Apple',
					'Google' 		=> 'Google',
					'Microsoft' 	=> 'Microsoft'
				),
				'visible' => array('show_checkboxlist', true)
			)
		)
	);

	return $meta_boxes;
} );

Best regards

Tan

Hi Jon,

Sorry for late reply, I just back again and wonder to see that you can fix your code easily, brilliant.

I can see you set 'column' => 4 for some 'hidden' fields, it's not necessary as these fields are hidden and some repeated code can be rewrite to cleaner 😉

All foreach like so:

...
foreach ( $_POST as $key => $value )
{
	if ( strpos( $key, 'p52_quote_phone_' ) )
		unset( $_POST[$key] );
}
...

Can be combine and rewrite to 1 foreach like so:

foreach ( $_POST as $key => $value )
{
	if ( strpos( $key, 'p52_quote_phone_' ) || strpos( $key, 'p52_quote_company_' ) || strpos( $key, 'p52_quote_delivery_address' ) ... ) // Replace ... with all fake fields you've set
	unset( $_POST[$key] );
}

For cloned group, I firstly designed for 1 product only and if we switch to cloned groups, it's time consuming because it's related to populate custom data and out of our scope, we're sorry about that.

Best Regards

Tan

Hi Jon, it's really weird if it return empty value even though customer phone has set. Can you please give me credentials to your website to check? Include FTP and WP-Admin? Can you send me via my email to check it faster? My email is: [email protected]

Oh, sorry, remove the square bracket and keep it $meta_box because I have assign $meta_boxes[] = $meta_box later 😉

Hi Jon, I found another problem on your code:

// start customer
$meta_boxes[] = array(

You can remove [], it just $meta_box.

On step value, can you please change to full value contains zero sign, 0.01 instead of 'step' => .01?

If you still get error, try to comment out some other Meta Box (I though is Groups), to check what meta boxes generate error 🙂

Hi carassius

To explain it more clearly, I've basically created two fields, as defined in this array:

'fields' => array(
			array(
				'name' => 'Name',
				'id' => $prefix . 'name',
				'type' => 'post',
				'post_type' => 'customer',
				'placeholder' => 'Select a Customer'
			),
			// Real field
			array(
				'name' 		=> 'Phone',
				'id' 		=> $prefix . 'phone',
				'type' 		=> 'hidden'
			)
		)

There're two fields called p52_quote_name which type is is post and p52_quote_phone which is hidden field, this field will hold the real value. ($prefix = 'p52_quote_' as you defined)

I've also created a bunch of input text fields, each field has ID: p52_quote_phone_$customer_id which customer ID is the post ID, and the default value is the customer phone, as this snippet:

foreach ( $customers as $customer )
	{
		// Show this phone field if match name.
		$meta_box['fields'][] = array(
			'name' 		=> 'Phone',
			'id' 		=> $prefix . 'phone_' . $customer->ID,
			'type' 		=> 'text',
			'std' 		=> get_post_meta( $customer->ID, 'p52_quote_phone', true ),
			'visible' 	=> array( $prefix . 'name', $customer->ID )
		);
	}

You can see

'visible' 	=> array( $prefix . 'name', $customer->ID )

That means, visible this field, when the select customer name is equal to customer ID, that means if we have two persons with phones, for example called:

ID 1: Jim : 0123456789
ID 2: Kane: 0139401451

So, if Jim, ID 1 (p52_quote_name) is selected, the field, p52_quote_phone_1 will visible with default value defined in std is: 0123456789

This snippet wich you've asked is to remove all faked text fields defined above, and store visible field (p52_quote_phone_1) to p52_quote_phone field 🙂

// Save data to phone field
add_action('rwmb_before_save_post', function($post_id)
{
	// Get person ID to save from "Select a Customer" field
	$person_to_save = intval( $_POST['p52_quote_name'] );
	// Save related field to phone field
	$_POST['p52_quote_phone'] = $_POST['p52_quote_phone_' . $person_to_save];
	// Unset all hidden fields
	foreach ( $_POST as $key => $value )
	{
		if ( strpos( $key, 'p52_quote_phone_' ) )
			unset( $_POST[$key] );
	}
} );

If you still have problem, can you give me your site information to debug?

Hi Maurice,

Yes, we do have shortcode to display on singular pages 🙂

[rwmb_meta meta_key="$meta_key"][/rwmb_meta]

Where $meta_key is the field ID.

To display post meta on other pages or specify post id meta, you can add post_id attribute, like so:

[rwmb_meta post_id="$post_id" meta_key="$meta_key"][/rwmb_meta]

Best regards

Tan Nguyen.