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This field is deprecated

Provides a modal with rows of formfields that you specify. As many options can be added as desired. Note this form field has a jQuery based javascript file as a dependency.

• name (mandatory) is the unique name of the parameter.
• type (mandatory) must be repeatable.
• label (mandatory) (translatable) is the descriptive title of the field.
• description description text for the form field. Displays at the top of the modal with the name as well as in the usual position in the form.
• default The default value for the form field if the field is left empty. Note this has to be a json string compatible with the contents of the form field.
• id id of the hidden form field. (the modal will have this id with an added suffix of "_modal" and the table within the modal will have this id with a suffix of "_modal_table").
• class class of the table.
• select (translatable) The text to show on the modal button.
• icon the icon to show on the select button (is prefixed with "icon-").
• maximum the maximum number of rows of fields allowed (by default 999 to be effectively infinite).

To create a form field you must first of all create a repeatable form field as usual.

<fields>

Within this you place open and close tag (if not already in one - if there is an existing fields tag for params etc. this is not needed.) and within this a tag.

<fieldset>

The fieldset tag MUST have a name the same as your repeatable field name with "_modal" appended to the end of it - it should also have the in the fieldset tag.

repeat="true"

Within this fieldset you then include the form fields that you wish to have repeating (as with any form field).

Example XML Definition

<field name="list_templates"
	type="repeatable"
	icon="list"
	description="PLG_TINY_FIELD_TEMPLATE_FIELD_ELEMENTS_DESC"
	label="PLG_TINY_FIELD_TEMPLATE_FIELD_ELEMENTS_LABEL"
	default='{"template":["Layout","Simple snippet"],
		"location":["layout1.html","snippet1.html"],
		"description":["HTMLLayout","Simple HTML snippet"]}'>
	<fieldset hidden="true" name="list_templates_modal" repeat="true">
		<field name="template"
			label="PLG_TINY_FIELD_TEMPLATE_FIELD_NAME_LABEL"
			size="30"
			type="text" />
		<field name="location"
			label="PLG_TINY_FIELD_TEMPLATE_FIELD_LOCATION_LABEL"
			description="PLG_TINY_FIELD_TEMPLATE_LOCATION_DESC"
			size="30"
			type="filelist"
			directory="media/editors/tinymce/templates"
			exclude="index.html"
			hide_default="true"
			hide_none="true" />
		<field name="description"
			label="PLG_TINY_FIELD_TEMPLATE_FIELD_DESCRIPTION_LABEL"
			size="30"
			type="textarea" />
	</fieldset>
</field>

Considerations for the default value

• The default may contain spaces tabs and new lines (makes for better readability)
• The data elements within the string must be quoted using " instead of '. Failure to do so will cause the json decode to fail on the default values.

Retrieving your data

The settings of a repeatable form field are returned as a json encoded array (same as the default)

// get the repeatable field value and decode it
$list_hosts 	 = json_decode( $params->get('list_templates'),true);
// loop your result
foreach( $list_templates as $list_templates_idx => $list_template ) {
   // do something clever for each of the templates
}