Filters description with field

Kirby 2 Solved ✅
1

Hello

I would like to make description of each of my filters.
Example : I click on a filter, it display every pages filtered by the tag AND a description of this filter. It could be nice to have a field for the user to custom the description of the filter.
I’m using a basic controller like this

<?php
return function($site, $pages, $page) {
     $projects = page('projects')->children()->visible();
     $tags = $projects->pluck('tags', ',', true);
          if($tag = param('tag')) {
               $projects = $projects->filterBy('tags', $tag, ',');
          }
          return compact('projects', 'tags');
};
?>

With this kind of list

 <ul>    
      <?php $pageTags = $page->tags()->split(); ?>
      <?php $p = kirby()->request()->params()->tag(); ?>
           <?php foreach($tags as $tag): ?>
           <li> 
                <a <?= in_array($tag, $pageTags)? 'class="active"':'' ?> <?php ecco($tag == $p, 'class="active"') ?> href="<?php echo url('index/' . url::paramsToString(['tag' => $tag])) ?>">
                     <?php echo html($tag) ?>
                </a>
           </li> 
           <?php endforeach ?>
  </ul>

The problem with the ‘tag’ field is that we can’t describe the word. Do you have some advices ?

2

You could use a structure field (e.g. in site settings) with two fields, tag and description.

3

Cool, this is a good start. The hard part is to get the correspondence between the filters and the field ?
I did this

  rubriques:
    label: Rubriques
    type: structure
    entry: >
      Rubrique : <h1>{{rubrique}}</h1><br />
      Description : <br />{{description}}
    fields:
      rubrique:
        label: Rubrique
        type: text
      description:
        label: Description
        type: textarea
4

You can use the findBy()method to find a specific entry in a structure field:

<?php
$item = $site->rubriques()->toStructure()->findBy('rubrique', 'something');
echo $item->description();

BTW: If the descriptions are not too long, I’d choose a table layout for this.

5

Great thank you ! But how can I display dynamically this field for each filters only if I filter ? I try to get the tag value with an if loop but i get error message only when I click on a filter wich doesn’t have a “rubrique”

I tried

 <?php $tags = $projects->pluck('tags', ',', true); ?>
        <?php if($site->rubriques()->isNotEmpty()): ?>
        <?php foreach($tags as $tag): ?>
    <?php
$item = $site->rubriques()->toStructure()->findBy('rubrique', $tag);
echo $item->description(); ?>
        <?php endforeach ?>
        <?php endif ?>

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to a member function description()

6

Check if the item exists to avoid this error:

if($item) {
echo $item->description();
}
7

Wonderfull :+1:

 <?php $tags = $projects->pluck('tags', ',', true); ?>   
      <?php foreach($tags as $tag): ?>
      <?php $item = $site->rubriques()->toStructure()->findBy('rubrique', $tag);
           if($item) {
                echo $item->description();
           } ?>
 <?php endforeach ?>