Custom order of post meta options

Matt Harris

#195804

Ok I got this working! Maybe not the best way possible but it works. Here is what I have done:

function filter_input_object($input_object, $sfid) {
   
 	if(($input_object['name']!='_sfm_colors')||($input_object['type']!='select')) {
 		return $input_object;
 	}
  
  if(!isset($input_object['options'])) {
		return $input_object;
	}
  
  // Move Green To Top
  $key = array_search('Green', array_column($input_object['options'], 'value'));
  $top = $input_object['options'][$key];
  unset($input_object['options'][$key]);
  array_unshift($input_object['options'], $top);
  
  // Move All Colors Back to Top
  $key1 = array_search('', array_column($input_object['options'], 'value'));
  $top1 = $input_object['options'][$key1];
  unset($input_object['options'][$key1]);
  array_unshift($input_object['options'], $top1);
  
  return $input_object;
}

add_filter('sf_input_object_pre', 'filter_input_object', 10, 2);

If there is a cleaner way I am interested, but this does work.

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Ross Moderator

#195850

Hi Matt

I had a look, and yeah that’s pretty much it.

The code for re-organising arrays in PHP is never pretty, especially if you want to put a value, but there are always a bunch of ways to do the same thing. I don’t have the code written and handy but a couple of other approaches could be:

1) Splice the array and rejoin like you mentioned before
2) Create a list array("red", "green", "blue") of the order you want all the elements and loop through it, adding the $input_object['options'] one by one to a new array, then replace ['options'] with the new array, in the order you wanted

I hope that helps, but it looks like you are on the right track already.

Thanks

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