Help! Serialized data.

hand_coding
(@hand_coding)

12 years, 5 months ago

Hi,
When saving post data, there are cases where MF sends arrays even if only one value is allowed (like a dropdown menu with only one option allowed).
The result is the data is saved as a serialized array containing one item (WordPress serializes passed arrays).
This makes custom queries uselessly complicated and breaks functionnalities for plugins which doesn’t handle serialized data.

I successfully modified mf_post.php to save the value of a specific field as string, but it would be more efficient to filter out fields by type.
However I’m only able to use the $field_name variable, I can’t get the $field_type variable.

I wonder what happened with the function mf_process_value_by_type($field_name,$value) in mf_post.php -> mf_save_post_data( $post_id ).
It seems it never got implemented.

If a developer could chime in, please.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Fabrice

http://wordpress.org/plugins/magic-fields-2/

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(@hand_coding)

Well that was rather simple actually.
The modifications bellow allows for writing and reading string data in place of serialized array if the array contains only one child (dropdown)

mf_post.php, line 278:

// Adding field value meta data
add_post_meta($post_id, "{$field_name}", $value);

becomes:

// Adding field value meta data
if(is_array($value) && count($value) == 1){
  add_post_meta($post_id, "{$field_name}", implode('',$value));
}else{
  add_post_meta($post_id, "{$field_name}", $value);
}

mf_front_end.php, line 481:

case 'dropdown':
  $result = ($options['multiple'])? $value[0] : $value ;
  break;

becomes:

case 'dropdown':
$result = ($options['multiple'] == '0' && is_array($value))? $value[0] : $value ;
break;

This doesn’t break previously entered data and update new/modified to the new format.

Fabrice

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