[Ryan Robinson]

Hi,

I saw elsewhere on the site that there are plans for a full Customize Fields extension but no promises of when that would be, so I’ve begun attempting to manually modify in order to add the few extra fields I need. I’m guessing so far that:
1. I need to add the variables to class.entry.php
2. I need to add the get and set functions to class.entry.php
3. I need to add calling the set functions in class.entry-actions.php’s process function

Where my question comes in is this: where is the page that calls the process function? i.e. How do I edit the “Add New” or “Edit” page that shows up on the Admin panel?

Or just correct me if I’m completely on the wrong track. I’m relatively new to PHP programming.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Ryan

Actually, you shouldn’t need to add anything to the core Connections plugin. I’ve been restructuring code myself in order to support this.

1. Create and register a new metabox that get displayed on the add/edit entry admin page.
2. Add a cn_{action-name} that only is fired in the admin.
3. Grab you the values from $_POST.
4. Since I don’t have an entry meta API yet you’ll have to write methods to add/update/delete from the entry_meta table. You’ll also have write methods for retried and display from the entry_meta table, you’ll want to write then in a way that you can use them in the template files.

That’s pretty high level … but it is the same exact path I’m going to take.

[Ryan Robinson]

I’ve gotten started trying to do the first step. Is there a custom post type created for entries? So far I can’t find one – haven’t scoured all the code, just the pages that made the most sense to me – but I’m not otherwise seeing how to add a meta box to Connections listings.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Ryan

Look in connections.php where the callback is to register the metaboxes. The actual metabox code is in the class.form.php file [for now, that code is up next to be completely refactored].

[Ryan Robinson]

So far I am really not getting far. I can get a new box and/or new fields within an existing box to appear on the Add/Edit page, but I’ve been struggling for a while at how to get it saved into the entry database.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Ryan

Take a look at this file:
https://github.com/shazahm1/Connections/blob/develop/includes/admin/class.actions.php

Register your own action
https://github.com/shazahm1/Connections/blob/develop/includes/admin/class.actions.php#77

Then create your action callback to save the data in the connections_meta table.

Because I have no API in place yet for saving/retrieving/displaying data from the connections_meta table; you’ll have to work that out.

[Author]

Posts