Even better !! Didn’t think of trying that before !
That’s an incredibly useful plugin, I can’t think of a website I built without it lately.
I’m quite interested to see what’s done with it, as there are tremendous possibilities and @1n3JgKl9pQ6cUMrW’s first sharings were really helpful for me, to get started with it.
Below an example of a custom template for achieving a random-but-carefully-curated gallery look, with a small live-preview (I captured it before I gave it a fixed position, but you get the idea). The code is quite specific (i.e crappy and quickly written), but I’ll share it as soon as I clean it.
The modal has a custom field listening to the events triggered by the sliders to make positionning elements easier :
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github.com/jenstornell/kirby-snippetfield
Because I hope features like this will be built into the core in the future, I don’t want to update this plugin too much. Still, I could not hold myself from updating it today.
0.2
- Made it a plugin instead of a field. Will probably require Kirby 2.4.1 from now on.
- Added
$keytostyle: tablewhich is the column slug. - Added
package.jsonwhich means Kirby CLI support.
This is an incredibly useful plug-in/field. Many thanks to @jenstornell for taking the time and creating it. My use was potentially more unusual than most in that I required content from related pages to be echoed out in the panel. As it ships kirby-snippetfield is limited to the Kirby $page object only, however, I found it easily extendable following the gudiance here and creating JSON APIs from which to index, search and present content dynamically from across our site within this field.
Great work @jenstornell
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I need some advice here. Is there a basic tutorial how to set this up in order to get a thumbnail of an image in a structured field in the panel?
Questions:
- Is the folder ‘snippetfield’ supposed to be put in the site/fields or site/plugins folder (as the latest versions says it was transformed from a field to a plugin)
- Where am i supposed to put the following code from the readme on the Github repository and how does it look in context?
<img src="<?php echo thumb($page->image($value), array('width' => 150))->url(); ?>">
I just get an empty table in my structured field inside the panel.
Thanks!
It goes into /site/plugins.
That goes into the snippets folder or a subdirectory of that folder. You have to define the path to that folder in the snippet option for the field.
@krl As by the changelog, I changed the behavior from being a field to being a plugin. I missed to fix the instructions, but I have now. Sorry about the trouble.
@texnixe Thanks for the speedy support.
Thanks for the hints. I still didn’t get it to work until i found the following, which should probably also be documented:
- Unpack the folder
kirby-snippetfield-master - Open it and move the folder
snippetfieldfromkirby-snippetfield-master/fields/snippetfieldto/site/fields/ - Rename
kirby-snippetfield-mastertosnippetfieldand move it tosite/plugins/
Thanks!
@krl No, you don’t have to move stuff around. Everything should be in /site/plugins. Your structure should look like this (ignore the other plugins):
The important thing here is that the folder must have the same name as the file that sits inside it, in this case “kirby-snippetfield”, otherwise, the plugin is not loaded.
If you install Kirby or plugins more often, I can recommend using the Kirby CLI. It makes installing and updating Kirby/Kirby plugins a breeze.
@jenstornell: Could you please update your installation instructions to make this clearer, because if you download the folder it is called kirby-snippetfield-master and must be renamed to kirby-snippetfield (and not just snippetfield).
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This is important info, thanks! I will check out the Kirby CLI.
While we are at it: Sorry for the noob question, but what would a simple snippet look like to show the street, zip and city from the example blueprint? I only found how to access the data in the structured field with a loop, but this will show each entry repeatedly:
<?php $addresses = $page->addresses()->yaml();
foreach($addresses as $address): ?>
<?php echo $address['street'] ?><br>
<?php echo $address['zip'] ?><br>
<?php echo $address['city'] ?><br>
<?php endforeach ?>You mean the snippet to show an entry in the Panel? It depends on the style you use to display your entries. Could you post your blueprint, please?
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You mean the snippet to show an entry in the Panel?
Yes
I just use the example blueprint from the Github repository with some options:
title: snippetfield_items_test
files: true
options:
preview: false
status: true
template: true
url: true
delete: true
fields:
addresses:
label: Addresses
type: snippetfield
snippet: snippetfield/show_items
style: items
fields:
street:
label: Street
type: text
zip:
label: ZIP
type: text
city:
label: City
type: text
You can access the field via the $values object:
dump($values);
gives you the complete set for a single entry.
So to get a single field within that set:
<?php
echo $values->street();
echo $values->zip();
etc.
So simple! Thanks! 
I’ve updated the installation instructions. I hope it will help someone in the future: GitHub - kirby-deprecated-plugins/kirby-snippetfield: Structure field with snippet instead of entry.
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Thanks for this plugin !
I like to sort a table view (like in the structure field…) is it possible with the snippefield ?
my_dates:
label: Dates
type: snippetfield
style: table
modalsize: large
sort: date
fields:
date:
label: Date
type: date
format: DD/MM/YYYY
snippet: agenda-fields/dateI found my way with this : Auto-sort and auto-filter an structured events list with a Kirby Hook and page model
Final hook with desc sort (‘date’ is my 2nd structure fields)
kirby()->hook('panel.page.update', function($page) {
if(isset($page->content()->data['my_dates'])) {
$dates = $page->my_dates()->yaml();
usort($dates, function($a, $b) {
if($a['date']==$b['date']) return 0;
return $a['date'] < $b['date']?1:-1;
});
try {
$page->update(array(
'my_dates' => yaml::encode($dates)
));
} catch(Exception $e) {
echo $e->getMessage();
}
}
});