wordpress-metabox

a class for easy creation of metaboxes in wordpress

Initializion:

Create a new instance of the SMC_Metabox Class:

$metabox = new SMC_Metabox($id, $label, $post_type, $metabox_configuration, $context, $priority);

• $id: 'id' attribute of the edit screen section
• $label: Title of the edit screen section, visible to user
• $post_type: The type of Write screen on which to show the edit screen section ('post', 'page', 'dashboard', 'link', 'attachment' or 'custom_post_type' where custom_post_type is the custom post type slug
• $metabox_configuration: Array of Configuration settings (see below)
• $context: (optional) The part of the page where the edit screen section should be shown ('normal', 'advanced', or 'side').
• $priority: (optional) The priority within the context where the boxes should show ('high', 'core', 'default' or 'low').

The Metabox_Configuration array

A Metabox is an array which holds several metafields. A single metafield is again an numerical array, which has the followong settings:

• 0 = ID (string) The unique id of the field
• 1 = Label (string) The label of the field, visible to the user
• 2 = Type (string) The type of the html component. Possible values are: "input" | "select" | "check" | "radio"
• 3 = Validation (string) Currently only possible values: "required" | empty
• 4 = Options (array) Defines options for select, check and radio types: array( array( "option-key" => "option-value"))

Example initialization:

      $metabox_config= array(
        array('smc-name', __('Name'), 'input'),
        array('smc-lastname', __('Last Name'), 'input', 'required'),
        array('smc-street', __('Street'), 'input', 'required'),
        array('smc-color', __('Color'), 'select', 'required', array(
                '-' => '-',
                'red' => 'Red',
                'blue' => 'Blue',
                'green' => 'green'
            )),
        array('smc-size', __('Size'), 'radio', 'required', array(
                '-' => '-',
                'l' => 'L',
                'm' => 'M',
                'xl' => 'XL'
            )),
        array('smc-check', __('Check'), 'check', '', array(
                'check1' => 'Check 1',
                'check2' => 'Check 2',
                'check3' => 'Check 3'
            ))
    );

    $metabox = new SMC_Metabox('SMC_metabox', __('Product Attributes'), 'post', $metabox_config, 'advanced', 'high');