Getting index of Add More items while in the loop • Piklist Support

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- August 4, 2014 at 2:53 pm #2135
 
 ianmuscat
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 Hi,
 
 In relation to https://piklist.com/support/topic/displaying-content-from-advanced-add-mores/, thanks to your help I was able to get everything working properly, however, I need to be able to get an index of the add-more item. For instance, if the Piklist loop is outputting add-more item #2, I need to be able to print out ‘#2’.
 
 Also, ideally, I would also be able to get the number of add-more items for a given post/entry – so if a post has 4 items, I would be able to output ‘4 items’ outside of the ‘add-more’ template.
 
 I’m not sure what would be the most effective way to go about this, or if I can/should use the default Piklit loop at all for this.
 
 Any ideas on how this can be achieved?
 
 Ian
- August 5, 2014 at 7:24 am #2147
 ianmuscat
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 Hi,
 
 I do apologize for several posts, however, I’m facing some challenges and I can’t seem to figure it out myself. I re-read my post and perhaps I might have not been as clear as to what I wish to achieve. My custom post type is outputting a series of add-more items, each one is being looped using the Piklist loop in a template file. So, far that works fine. However, I need to be able to also print out (in the template) what add-more item this is on.
 
 So, if I have the following array being outputted
```
Array
(
 [piklist_test_title] => Array
 (
 [0] => Test
 [1] => Test 2
 )

 [slide_content] => Array
 (
 [0] => some text.
 [1] => some text.
 )

 [piklist_test_content] => Array
 (
 [0] => Array
 (
 [0] => 1687
 )

 [1] => Array
 (
 [0] => 
 )

 )

 [piklist_test_color] => Array
 (
 [0] => #6b6b6b
 [1] => 
 )

 [piklist_test_option] => Array
 (
 [0] => Array
 (
 [0] => option-1
 )

 [1] => Array
 (
 [0] => option-1
 )

 )

)
```
 I would need to be able to echo ‘#1’ if the array is at position [0] in the add-more template (the template that is being looped). An idea I had was to possibly use the following from @jason – https://gist.github.com/JasonTheAdams/d40351ecf5bca8a7e7f4#file-parse_piklist_array
 
 However, I haven’t been able to get that working properly either.
 
 Any input would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance. Please let me know if any further information is required.
 
 Regards,
 Ian
- August 5, 2014 at 3:53 pm #2159
 
 Steve
 Keymaster
 
 @ianmuscat– Just wanted to let you know we are looking into this.
- August 5, 2014 at 4:00 pm #2161
 
 ianmuscat
 Member
 
 Hi Steve,
 
 Thank you so much – I’ll be awaiting your suggestion.
 
 Ian
- August 5, 2014 at 4:11 pm #2163
 
 Jason
 Keymaster
 
 Hi Ian!
 
 Just because you mentioned the function I wrote, I wanted to let you know I just updated it (same gist). Use it like this:
 $array = parse_piklist_array(get_post_meta($post_id, 'field-name', true));
 
 If that doesn’t work (after grabbing the latest code), I’d be curious what issue you’re having.
- August 6, 2014 at 8:27 am #2169
 
 ianmuscat
 Member
 
 Hi Jason,
 
 Apologies for the late reply – I tried out your updated code and it works like a charm – this will be useful for counting the total number of ‘add-more’ items easily.
 
 However, I am still stuck with regards to knowing which item I am on inside of the Piklist loop. Once again, the idea is to be able to determine what index a particular ‘add-more’ item has so I can print it inside the add-more template which is getting repeated via the Piklist loop.
 
 Regards,
 Ian
- August 6, 2014 at 12:09 pm #2170
 Jason
 Keymaster
 Being perfectly honest, I don’t use the piklist loop views as not to be limited by what Piklist exposes to the view loop. I prefer to parse the meta, and handle it myself from there. So I’d do something like this (as an example):
```
$list = '';
$faqs = parse_piklist_array(get_post_meta(get_the_ID(), 'faq', true));
foreach($faqs as $index => $faq) {
 $list .= "<li>$index: {$faq['question']} {$faq['answer']}</li>";
}

$list = "<ul>$list</ul>";
```
 Of course it’d be great to use the Piklist loop as you’re intending, but if you need it now you can do something like that.
 
 Hope this helps!
- August 6, 2014 at 3:33 pm #2171
 
 ianmuscat
 Member
 
 Hi Jason,
 
 Thank you so much for your input! I will try this out first thing tomorrow and let you know if I managed to get this to work.
 
 Thanks once again for your help.
 
 Regards,
 Ian
- August 7, 2014 at 6:30 am #2174
 
 ianmuscat
 Member
 
 Hi,
 
 @jason – Thank you so much for your help – I ended up using your solution to work around this.
 
 Many thanks,
 Ian
- December 25, 2014 at 4:42 pm #3132
 azizultex
 Member
 Hi,
 
 Thanks for the Jason’s code. I get the function worked with to fetch value for below code:
```
piklist('field', array(
 'type' => 'group'
 ,'field' => 'social_media'
 ,'label' => __('Social Media') 
 ,'columns' => 12
 ,'add_more' => true
 ,'fields' => array(
	
 array(
 'type' => 'text'
 ,'field' => 'icon'
 ,'columns' => 2
 ,'attributes' => array(
 'placeholder' => 'fa fa-facebook'
 )
 )
 ,array(
 'type' => 'text'
 ,'field' => 'link'
 ,'columns' => 7
 ,'attributes' => array(
 'placeholder' => 'https://www.facebook.com/worksfireinc'
 )
 ),
		 array(
 'type' => 'text'
 ,'field' => 'tooltip'
 ,'columns' => 3
 ,'attributes' => array(
 'placeholder' => 'Facebook'
 )
 )
 )
 ));
```
 I need to know if I can also fetch value for a bit advanced metaboxes like below.
```
<?php
piklist('field', array(
 'type' => 'group'
 ,'field' => 'workout_schedule'
 ,'label' => __('Tasks') 
 ,'columns' => 12
 ,'add_more' => true
 ,'fields' => array(
 array(
 'type' => 'select'
 ,'field' => 'day'
 ,'columns' => 12
 ,'choices' => array(
 'monday' => 'Monday'
 ,'tuesday' => 'Tuesday'
 ,'wednesday' => 'Wednesday'
 ,'thursday' => 'Thursday'
 ,'friday' => 'Friday'
 ,'saturday' => 'Saturday'
 ,'sunday' => 'Sunday'
 )
 )
 ,array(
 'type' => 'group'
 ,'field' => 'exercise_day'
 ,'add_more' => true
 ,'fields' => array(
 array(
 'type' => 'text'
 ,'field' => 'exercise'
 ,'columns' => 8
 ,'attributes' => array(
 'placeholder' => 'Exercise'
 )
 )
 ,array(
 'type' => 'text'
 ,'field' => 'exercise_reps'
 ,'columns' => 2
 ,'attributes' => array(
 'placeholder' => 'Reps'
 )
 )
 ,array(
 'type' => 'text'
 ,'field' => 'exercise_sets'
 ,'columns' => 2
 ,'attributes' => array(
 'placeholder' => 'Sets'
 )
 )
 )
 )
 )
 ));
?>
```
 Is it possible to fetch value for above metaboxes using Jason’s function?
 
 Thanks
- December 29, 2014 at 12:18 pm #3138
 
 Jason
 Keymaster
 
 Hi @azizultex
 
 Use the PiklistHelper::parse_array function found here: https://github.com/JasonTheAdams/PiklistHelper
 
 That should work for both fields, as it works recursively to support nested groups. If there’s any problems please make an Issue on Github. 🙂
- December 29, 2014 at 12:35 pm #3139
 
 azizultex
 Member
 
 Thanks @Jason, I will will look at this.
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