Custom fields code events

[Lukas W.]

Would be nice to have a couple of code events to make creating new custom field types possible.

To name a couple of methods that needed to be hookable:

• XF\Repository\AbstractField::getFieldTypes
• XF\Repository\AbstractField::getMatchTypePhrases
• XF\Admin\Controller\AbstractField::fieldSaveProcess

And any other that may be required to add new custom field types.

Currently, the only way to add new types is to find each instance of each repository and controller and extend them manually, which not only is pretty tedious, but also doesn't work for 3rd party content types that support custom fields out of the box.

Edit: This would also include turning the field_type field on the field entity into a string, ideally.

 

[Kirby]

This would be nice

A kinda hacky idea how to achive smth. similar right now without additional code events:

Not planned - Adding the «extend_class» event

Based on the thread «Unable to add new field type for custom fields». The only idea I got was to add an extension to the class that is a child of the abstract I needed, on the fly. However, this is not possible, since the class loading event that XF 1 had is not. That is, I imagined an event...

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