[Plugin: Posts 2 Posts] Default value for 'fields'

Resolved daniel_not_dan
(@daniel_not_dan)

12 years ago

I’m building a personal movie database – this plugin is working awesomely for me and I’m having a lot of fun playing around with it.

Here’s my question:
I’ve set it up so that I can assign a “strength of performance” indicator to a particular actor in a particular movie (using ‘fields’ where I’ve defined the movies-to-actors relationship in functions.php). I want to be able to see that Michael Caine was really good in Batman Begins, but not so great in Jaws 4, or whatever.
I initially set it up to have two values: “great”, and “same-old”. However, in a movie like “Harry Potter” where there are a gazillion actors, it gets tedious setting most of them to “same-old”. Is there a way to make a custom field default to a certain value unless I specify otherwise?

I’m not super-strong on PHP, and I’ve played around a little trying to get it to work, but with no luck.

Any ideas?
Thanks!

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/posts-to-posts/

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Plugin Author

(@scribu)

You can do this in the development version (1.3-alpha3), like so:

'fields' => array(
    'role_type' => array(
        'title' => 'Performance',
        'values' => array( 'great', 'same-old' ),
        'default' => 'same-old'
    ),
),

letusrise

(@letusrise)

12 years ago

@scribu Wow, I’ve been waiting for this feature. 😀

John

(@jsing)

11 years, 8 months ago

How can this data be displayed? Here is what i have:

/* Register connection */
function svrn_connection_type() {
    $connection_args = array(

'name' => 'posts_to_customers',
        'from' => 'post',
        'to'   => 'customer',

            'fields' => array(
                'type' => array(
                    'title' => __('Type', 'svrn'),
                    'values' => array(
                        'purchase' => __('POS', 'svrn'),
                        'pawn' => __('Pawn', 'svrn'),
			'vendor' => __('Vendor', 'svrn'),
			'sale' => __('Sale', 'svrn')
                    	),
                )
            )

    );

    p2p_register_connection_type($connection_args);
}

add_action( 'init', 'svrn_connection_type' );

Which works great. For getting the name of the customer I have been using:

<?php
// Find connected customers
$connected = new WP_Query( array(
  'connected_type' => 'posts_to_customers',
  'connected_items' => get_queried_object(),
  'nopaging' => true,
) );

// Display connected customers
if ( $connected->have_posts() ) :
?>
<ol>
<?php while ( $connected->have_posts() ) : $connected->the_post(); ?>
	<li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title();  ?></a>
</li><br/>
<?php echo p2p_get_meta($post->p2p_id, 'type', true );?>

I only get the title of the post but not the Type.

Thanks.

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