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    • March 20, 2014 at 7:01 am #1573
      Marcus
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      Hey guys, I’ve been using the piklist function for quite a while now, and what I love is that I can use an array after it, to build the choices for a select dropdown.

      So my code is: 

      
  ,'choices' =>  piklist(
    get_users(
     array(
      'orderby' => 'user_login'
      ,'order' => 'asc'
      ,'role' => 'parent'
     )
     ,'objects'
    )
    ,array(
     'ID'
     ,'user_login'
    )
  )

      The get_users functions works within the piklist function to get the data in an array, however, the array right after get_users allows me to populate the value for the option with ID, and the option text with user_login.

      Great stuff.

      My question is this… In the array, can I combine results, so that the option would include something like:

      
array (
'ID'
,'user_login'.' - '.'display_name'
)

      Is this possible currently? I know I’m not doing it right, but I’d love to know if its possible.

      Thanks

      Marcus

    • March 20, 2014 at 7:28 am #1574
      Marcus
      Member

      Wow, decided to take a hack at making this idea work. So in class-piklist.php in the includes directory of piklist, I changed these lines: (around the 20th line after the piklist function starts)

      
$_value = $arguments[1];
$list[$_key] = is_object($value) ? $value->$_value : $value[$_value];

      to this:

      
if (is_array($arguments[1])) {
  $tmpp = '';
  foreach($arguments[1] AS $pk=>$pval) {
    if ((is_object($value) && isset($value->$pval)) || (is_array($value) && isset($value[$pval]))) {
      $tmpp .= is_object($value) ? $value->$pval : $value[$pval];
    } else {
      $tmpp .= $pval;
    }
  }
  $list[$_key] = $tmpp;
} else {
  $_value = $arguments[1];
  $list[$_key] = is_object($value) ? $value->$_value : $value[$_value];
}

      which allows me to make an array of the secondary value in the piklist array argument, such as this:

      
,array(
 'ID'
 ,array('user_login',' - (','display_name',')')
)

      And the result is option text that is more readable and flexible, inside my dropdown EG:

      super_admin – (Marcus Eby)
      bobjay – (Robert Jay)
      etc…

      The ideas are limitless with piklist.
      Thanks.

      Marcus

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