[Plugin: Posts 2 Posts] Setting direction for each_connected()

Resolved dlukez
(@dlukez)

14 years ago

Hi scribu,

I’ve been learning your plugin the last few days. It seems to me that indeterminate connections with reciprocal => false may require a need to set the direction when using each_connected(), because find_direction() will default it to ‘from’. I modified the function and got it to work for my intended purpose: http://pastebin.com/3MkPWn2n
The changes I made are at lines 1, 10 and 20.

I’m relatively new to WordPress plugin coding so let me know if I’m just using the plugin wrong. I understand that you can achieve the same thing using p2p_type()->set_direction()->get_connected() calls but I’m guessing that’s less efficient and a little more complex to implement.

A case where this might be useful is covered in http://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic/plugin-posts-2-posts-hwo-to-make-grandfather-father-son

Btw, thanks heaps for this plugin, it’s been super helpful!

Cheers

http://ww.wp.xz.cn/extend/plugins/posts-to-posts/

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Plugin Author

(@scribu)

The most readable way to set the direction is by using p2p_distribute_connected() directly:

$connected = get_posts( array(
  'connected_items' => $wp_query->posts,
  'connected_type' => 'YOUR_CONNECTION_TYPE',
  'connected_direction' => 'to',
  'nopaging' => true,
  'suppress_filters' => false
) );

p2p_distribute_connected( $wp_query->posts, $connected, 'connected' );

It’s just as efficient as using each_connected().

Thread Starter

dlukez

(@dlukez)

14 years ago

ok, thanks!

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