bmeisler

OK, thanks for your help! Some useful information already – but still nothing is stopping the problem – either the data loads all the time…or not. I’m sending you a simplified version of what I’m trying to do – I’ve cut out all of my attempts of using current_screen, show_on, show_on_cb, etc. – just so you can see what I’m doing.

Briefly, when the metaboxes are initialized, we call the function gd_module_test_get_templates which polls a list of module templates and uses that list to populate a combox box.

I’ve come close with this – I can call that function only under certain conditions (eg, url params), but when I do, the list of modules gets echoed out (print_r($templates);, near the very end of the code) but the combo box is empty…

Again the real problem is that this occurs on EVERY page,post, plugin, etc. and brings my whole admin page to a crawl.

Here’s the code:

<?php

namespace GDModulesTest;

class ModulesTest{

	/**
	 * Holds an instance of the object
	 *
	 * @var ModulesTest
	 **/
	private static $instance = null;

	/**
	 * Constructor
	 */
	private function __construct() {
		// Set our title
		$this->title = __( 'GD Modules Test', 'gd' );
	}

	/**
	 * Returns the running object - implements the Singleton design pattern
	 *
	 * @return ModulesTest
	 **/
	public static function get_instance() {
		if( is_null( self::$instance ) && is_admin()){
			self::$instance = new self();
			self::$instance->gd_mt_init();
		}
		return self::$instance;
	}

	public function gd_mt_init() {
		$this->bootstrap_CMB2();
		add_filter( 'cmb2_admin_init', array($this,'gd_module_test_metabox' ));
	}

	/**
	 * Get the bootstrap!
	 */
	public function bootstrap_CMB2(){
		if ( file_exists( __DIR__ . '/cmb2/init.php' ) ) {
			require_once __DIR__ . '/cmb2/init.php';
		} elseif ( file_exists( __DIR__ . '/CMB2/init.php' ) ) {
			require_once __DIR__ . '/CMB2/init.php';
		}
	}

	function gd_module_test_metabox() {

		$prefix = 'gd_';

		$module_templates = new_cmb2_box( array(
			'id'           => 'module_metabox_templates',
			'title'        => __( 'Module Templates', 'gd' ),
			'object_types' => array( 'modules' ), // Post type
			'context'      => 'normal',
			'priority'     => 'low',
			'show_names'   => true, // Show field names on the left
		) );

		$module_templates->add_field( array(
			'name'    => __('Module Template', 'gd'),
			'id'      => $prefix . 'module_template',
			'type'    => 'select',
			'options' => $this->gd_module_test_get_templates(),
			'default' => 'custom',
		) );
	}

	function gd_module_test_get_templates() {

		$templates = array();

		if ( is_dir( '../../app/themes/gd-employers-blog-sage/templates/modules/' ) ) {

			$dir = opendir( '../../app/themes/gd-employers-blog-sage/templates/modules/' );

			while ( false !== ( $template = readdir( $dir ) ) ) {
				if ( ! is_dir( $template ) ) {

					$template_name = explode( 'Template Name:', file_get_contents( '../../app/themes/gd-employers-blog-sage/templates/modules/' . $template ) );
					if ( ! empty( $template_name[1] ) ) {
						$template_name          = $template_name[1];
						$template_name          = explode( '*/', $template_name );
						$template_name          = $template_name[0];
						$template_name          = trim( $template_name );
						$templates[ $template ] = __( $template_name, 'cmb' );
					}
				}
			}
			closedir( $dir );

			print_r($templates);//NOTE: this prints out on EVERY PAGE/POST/PLUGIN!
			//this function should ONLY be called if we are actuall editing a module!

			return $templates;
		}
	}
}

Glad to see I’m not the only one! I actually think that this would be a common problem, as the default post login screen (Profile) is some seriously bad UX…

I can’t expect Radiok to fix this, as it would probably be pretty complicated.

The easy fix, IMHO, would be to override the filter I placed in functions.php, so that I’d allow my “custom” redirect (going back to page of origin) in the case that the function was called from single.php (i.e., subscriber-only content pages). But this is a bit beyond my WordPress/PHP chops at this point.

Can anybody help? Maybe I should post this as a generic help request for filters…if I ever figure it out, I’ll definitely post it…