Usage

The features these changes provides can be used in different use cases of which will most commonly be utilized by plugins.

Use case example

An example will be a survey form. The admin may wish to create a form that may require numerous form input fields.

Some might be as simple as question and answer consisting of some Question Text and a feedback/answer text input field, however the admin might wish to use more complex feedback options, such as a radio group, checklist or select list. This will require the plugin to support more complex functionality as the admin would be required to add input properties such as option values and labels.

Each Form Input Item may consist of any of the following types:

• 'select'
• 'integer'
• 'html_input'
• 'html_textarea'
• 'textarea'
• 'text'
• 'checkbox'
• 'checklist'
• 'radio'
• 'fileselect'
• 'password'
• 'info'
• 'color'
• 'input_group'

Each Form Input will be added dynamically in order to build the form as needed, and each input property will also be required to be added dynamically for some inputs such as lists, may need only two or three list items, while others may be more.

This feature therefor provides support for nested dynamic inputs such as types 'select_input' inside array:array:string.

Additional use case examples will include complex settings for a shopping cart plugin, courier/shipping plugin, layer slider plugin

Changes

This branch contains support for a feature not available in the Official Branch:

• Fixes for dynamic types: array:array:string (fix removing and re-adding items via AJAX callbacks)
• Support for new dynamic type: select_input Feature | Dynamic group of type select input #63
• Support for nested dynamic types Feature | Support Nested dynamic fields #56
• Fixes loading default value for type input_group Fix dynamic default values for type of input group #72
• Fixes for support dynamic type array:array:string in Skin Settings 7447189

Configurations:

• type = select_input
• max_number = 4
• use_fieldset = true / false (Wrap the items in a fieldset)
• fold = true / false

Supports:

• 'select'
• 'integer'
• 'html_input'
• 'html_textarea'
• 'textarea'
• 'text'
• 'checkbox'
• 'checklist'
• 'radio'
• 'fileselect'
• 'password'
• 'info'
• 'color'
• 'input_group'

Related PR

This PR incorporates all the following:

• Fix foldable settings init for dynamic calls #74
• Fix dynamic default values for type of input group #72
• Feature | Dynamic group of type select input #63
• Feature | Support Nested dynamic fields #56

Forum Discussions

http://forums.b2evolution.net/support-dynamic-fields-inside-dynamic-fields#c110631
http://forums.b2evolution.net/feature-request-dynamic-input-groups#c110422

Visual Cues

Additional fixes

fix removing and re-adding items via AJAX callbacks