CMB2 magicsuggest Field

Custom field for the wordpress CMB2 plugin.

cmb2-magicsuggest turns the magicsuggest script by Nicolas Bize into a custom field type that can be added to your metaboxes.

The magicselect field acts much like a select/multiselect field but with a typeahead-style search, allowing you to select items from a list of suggestions.
This field can also be configured to :

• allow the user to enter non-suggested entries.
• set the limit of items that can be selected.
• allow the user to reenter the same entry multiple times.

magicsuggest script demo.

Installation

Follow the example in example-field-setup.php for a demonstration. The example assumes you have both CMB2 and this extension in your mu-plugins directory. If you’re using CMB2 installed as a plugin, remove lines 6-9 of the example.

Screenshots

Usage

The example includes two configuration demos of the Magic Suggest custom field.

You can retrieve the meta data using the following:

$fruits = get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), '_cmb2_magicsuggest_demo_fruits', true );

This will return an array of string.

$related_posts = get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), '_cmb2_magicsuggest_demo_related_posts', true );

This will return an array of related post IDs. You can loop through those post IDs like the following example:

foreach ( $related_posts as $related_post ) {
    $post = get_post( $related_post );
}

Once you have the post data for the post ID, you can proceed with the desired functionality relating to each attached post.

Note

cmb2-magicsuggest does not support all of the magicsuggest API configuration options but only the few that I needed.