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    • March 28, 2017 at 9:42 pm #7862
      friendlyfire3
      Member

      Hi, I love that you have term meta options https://piklist.com/learn/doc/terms/

      I searched for an answer to this but came up empty.

      I noticed when creating a meta field, for example:

      <?php
/*
Title: Upload Fields
Taxonomy: random_tax
New: true
*/
?>

<?php
  
  piklist('field', array(
    'type' => 'file'
    ,'field' => 'featured_media'
    ,'label' => __('Featured Media', 'piklist-demo')
    ,'options' => array(
      'modal_title' => __('Add File(s)', 'piklist-demo')
      ,'button' => __('Add', 'piklist-demo')
    )
  ));
 ?>

      And I add a couple of images, it creates a new term meta field for each image and increments the id.

      I know that multiple values can be added to a meta field using the unique parameter on add_term_meta or update_term_meta but I’m not sure how to do this just using piklist.

      What am I missing?

    • March 29, 2017 at 3:23 pm #7863
      Jason
      Keymaster

      Hey @friendlyfire3!

      I’m sorry, I’ve read over this a couple times now and I’m still not entirely sure what you’re asking. Depending on the field Piklist will add multiple values for a key. Are you talking about serialization of multiple values into a single row?

    • March 29, 2017 at 3:44 pm #7864
      friendlyfire3
      Member

      Yes, I want to add multiple values for a key. What type of field does this? And are there docs that help understand which is which?

      I’m currently using:

      
  piklist('field', array(
    'type' => 'file'
    ,'field' => 'featured_media_url'
    ,'label' => __('Featured Media Url', 'piklist-demo')
    ,'attributes' => array(
      'class' => 'regular-text'
	   ,'readonly' => 'readonly'
    )
  ));
    • March 29, 2017 at 3:49 pm #7865
      Jason
      Keymaster

      To be clear, you want to be able to select multiple files and have it enter the database as a single, serialized array? I have to ask why you’d prefer that over just having one value per row? That’s generally the better storage method.

    • March 29, 2017 at 3:51 pm #7866
      Jason
      Keymaster

      To be clear, right now you can select multiple files, it would just make one row in the database with the key featured_media_url per file. Then, when you retrieve this (via get_term_meta) it would be an array of values when using get_term_meta($term, 'featured_media_ur').

    • March 29, 2017 at 3:54 pm #7867
      friendlyfire3
      Member

      I’m actually storing urls, not ids. However, your second post makes sense. Let me play with that and get back to you.

      Thanks for the response.

    • March 29, 2017 at 3:59 pm #7868
      Jason
      Keymaster

      For something like that I would do:

      piklist('field', array(
  'type' => 'text',
  'field' => 'urls',
  'label' => 'URLs',
  'add_more' => true
));

      That will store each instance as a row under the urls key. Then use get_term_meta($term_id, 'urls') to get an array of them all.

      Hope this helps! 🙂

    • March 29, 2017 at 5:02 pm #7869
      friendlyfire3
      Member

      Super helpful, Jason. Close this puppy out!

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