Building a Relationship Field about framework

[jlambe]

Hi and thanks for trying the framework.

Actually you don't need to create a custom field in order to build relationships between custom post types. You can easily do it with a very small amount of code.

I invite you to check the code of the framework website here on Github as we've built a select field filled with page posts (which can easily be replaced by custom post types):

• https://github.com/themosis/website

Take a look at this file home.php around line 21 to 26:

• https://github.com/themosis/website/blob/master/htdocs/content/themes/themosis/app/admin/home.php

As you can see, there is a call to Field::select() and we pass an array filled by a custom model (a PageModel class that retrieve/update datas).

Then look at the code inside the PageModel class for the PageSelection method. We simply run a new WP_Query and return an array where each key is the ID and the value is the post_title:

• https://github.com/themosis/website/blob/master/htdocs/content/themes/themosis/app/models/PageModel.php

Then you get a custom relationship field with better logic separation and the model class and its methods can easily be re-use anywhere in your application ;)

Also I checked your code and at this state, I will reject your pull request because:

1. What you're looking for can easily be achieved like the example above.
2. You hardcoded a listing custom post type and this is not giving any flexibility for developers.

For your project, please check the website code and if you need more help or more information, don't hesitate to ask ;)

Regards,

Julien

[iamkevingreen]

:) I knew there had to be a better way to go about it. I also intended on cleaning it up. Thanks this is awesome and super helpful. Long live themosis.

-thanks

[ThinkDevStudios]

Hi! I can't seem to view the code for building a relationship field. The website repo seems to have been deleted already. How do you make a relationship field?