Working with Multiselect in my Template

Kirby 3 Questions 🤔
1

Good evening,

I’m using multiselect in a blueprint to assign different categories to projects in my portfolio.

category:
    type: multiselect
    options:
        photography: Photography
        graphicDesign: Graphic Design
        userInterface: User Interface
        typeDesign: Type Design

In a Template I am using these values at different positions. How is it possible (using “Graphic Design” as an example) to sometimes insert “graphicDesign” and sometimes “Graphic Design”?

Thank you,
Simon

2

Well, when you just call the field, you will always get the stored value.

To get the “label”, you have different options:

  1. In a multilanguage site, use the translations array to store key-value pairs you can then retrieve via the t() helper.
  2. Read the value from the blueprint, Using blueprints in the frontend | Kirby CMS
  3. Use a category map (similar to option 1) you define in your config file (see, Sort collection by translated value from category map - #3 by jonabaptistella, example uses Kirby 2 syntax which you would have to adapt to Kirby 3, but you get the idea)
3

Can you give an example how I would insert a value from my blueprint using your second option?

4 
<?php
// get the available options from the blueprint
$options = $page->blueprint()->field('category')['options'];
dump($options);

// when looping through the stored values, fetch the option with the key from the options array
foreach($page->category()->split(',') as $category) {
  echo $options[$category] ?? $category;

}