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[bigdawggi]

Howdy, I'm making a custom section and it needs a type-ahead box that searches for other custom post types to feature in it. The big question is how I save a custom option 'type' values (i.e., not one of the built-in "text", "checkbox", etc).

 

I've looked through the "pagelines-section-template" code, and watched the YouTube tutorials, but those all give examples of a "text" option type, not a custom one.  

 

I found the action inside `class.options.engine.php` for outputting the custom option type (below), so that's not a problem:

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...but I'm falling short on finding where to save the option's values.

 

Thanks in advance!

[James B]

Hi there,

 

I'll speak to a member of the developer team to see if they can point you in the right direction and come back to you once I hear from them.

 

If you're looking into making a custom sections, you should look into signing up to our Junto/developer group

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[bigdawggi]

Thanks James, I've done that as well and am waiting for their approval of my application.  If there's a way to hasten that process I'm game for that route too

 

I look fwd to their reply!  Thanks!

[Simon_P]

Why not use a dropdown of all available types?

[bigdawggi]

Thanks Simon_P, but it's not to make available the listing of custom post types; The end result is to provide the user the ability to select multiple individual post type items.  

 

Example: 

There's a post type of videos

This section would allow the editors to type inside it for the name of a singular video; then click "+" to add another input to search for another video to populate this section with, and so on.

 

I haven't seen a section that allows for that type of functionality.

 

The issue I was having (and haven't been able to go back and test more yet) is the saving of the values of those text inputs that will contain the titles/ids of those videos.

[bigdawggi]

So after a long break I was able to get back to this and realized that the field just needed the proper name -- which comes from the $o (option element defined in the `section_optionator()` function.

 

Example defining option:

 

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And now to output in the section admin

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I believe I had been trying the $oid variable instead of the $o (which I know understand, stands for option).  Baby steps

 

Now my question is how to validate the entered values, but I'll look around for that.

 

Thanks for everyones help!