Association

This field allows to select and reorder multiple post type posts, taxonomy terms, users or comments. Useful for creating links between any of these items.

Setup methods

set_types($types)

It allows you to specify the types of data that you want to have available in this association field.

In this context:

• type is the data type – post, term, user, comment, or a custom value (if implemented).
• subtype clarifies the exact type to be used.
  • For the post_type type, you can use post, page or any other registered custom post type.
  • For the taxonomy type, you can use category, post_tag or any other registered custom taxonomy.
  • The subtype is not used for the user and comment types.

Defaults to array(array('type' => 'post', 'post_type' => 'post'))

set_max($max)

Allows you to limit the maximum number of selected items in a association field. By default, there is no limit.

Field::make('association', 'crb_association')
    ->set_max(5)

allow_duplicates($allow)

If enabled will allow the same item to be selected more than once. By default, duplicates are not allowed.

Field::make('association', 'crb_association')
    ->allow_duplicates(true)

NB! To get all the association data (each entry containing id, type, subtype) array, you can set the association type in the retrieval functions. Example:

/* Get the association data as an array */
carbon_get_post_meta($id, $name, 'association'); 
/*
The above example returns: 
array( 
    0 => array(
        'id' => 20, 
        'type' => 'post', 
        'post_type' => 'page'
    ), 
    1 => array(
        'id' => 16, 
        'type' => 'term', 
        'taxonomy' => 'category'
    )
)
*/

/* Get the association data as plain array with IDs */
carbon_get_post_meta($id, $name); 
/* 
The above example returns: 
array( 
    0 => 20,
    1 => 16
)

Example

The example below registers the following options for the association field:

• Post Type: Page
• Post Type: Post
• Taxonomy: Category
• Taxonomy: Post Tag
• Users
• Comments

Field::make('association', 'crb_association')
    ->set_types(array(
        array(
            'type' => 'post',
            'post_type' => 'page',
        ),
        array(
            'type' => 'post',
            'post_type' => 'post',
        ),
        array(
            'type' => 'term',
            'taxonomy' => 'category',
        ),
        array(
            'type' => 'term',
            'taxonomy' => 'post_tag',
        ),
        array(
            'type' => 'user',
        ),
        array(
            'type' => 'comment',
        ),
    ))