amarkal-widget

Develop WordPress widgets based on Amarkal UI.

Tested up to: WordPress 4.7
Dependencies: amarkal-ui

Overview

amarkal-widget lets you develop widgets for your WordPress theme or plugin, using amarkal-ui. amarkal-widget takes care of building the admin user form and saving the user input, so you can concentrate on building the widget itself!

Installation

Via Composer

If you are using the command line:

$ composer require askupa-software/amarkal-widget:dev-master

Or simply add the following to your composer.json file:

"require": {
    "askupa-software/amarkal-widget": "dev-master"
}

And run the command

$ composer install

This will install the package in the directory vendors/askupa-software/amarkal-widget. Now all you need to do is include the composer autoloader.

require_once 'path/to/vendor/autoload.php';

Manually

Download amarkal-ui and amarkal-widget from github and include them in your project.

require_once 'path/to/amarkal-ui/bootstrap.php';
require_once 'path/to/amarkal-widget/bootstrap.php';

Usage

Create a class that inherits from \Amarkal\Widget\AbstractWidget. This class should implement 2 methods:

• config() - a public function that returns an array with the widget's configuration.
• widget( $args, $instance ) - a public function that prints the widget's front-end HTML.

Configuration Arguments

Name	Type	Default	Required	Description
id	string	''	Yes	Specifies the widget's id.
name	string	''	Yes	Specifies the widget's name.
widget_options	array	array()	No	Specifies a list of widget options, like a description.
control_options	array	array()	No	Specifies a list of widget control options.
fields	array	array()	No	Specifies a list of amarkal-ui components to be used for the widget's admin form. Each item in this array should be an array and have the original UI component arguments as specified in amarkal-ui, as well as the following: default, title, description.

Example Code

Create a class for your widget:

class MyCoolWidget 
extends \Amarkal\Widget\AbstractWidget
{   
    /**
     * The widget's configuration
     */
    public function config()
    {
        return array(
            'id'              => 'm-cool-widget',   // The widget's id
            'name'            => 'My Cool Widget',  // The widget's id
            'widget_options'  => array(
                'description' => 'Just a very very cool widget...'  // The widget's description
            ),
            'control_options' => array(),           // Optional
            
            /**
             * The 'fields' argument specifies a list of amarkal-ui components to be used for the widget's admin form.
             */
            'fields'          => array(
                array(
                    'name'          => 'title',
                    'title'         => __( 'Title:', 'slug' ),
                    'default'       => 'My Cool Widget',
                    'description'   => 'Specifies the widget\'s title',
                    'type'          => 'text'
                ),
                array(
                    'name'          => 'content',
                    'title'         => __( 'Text:', 'slug' ),
                    'default'       => 'My cool widget content',
                    'description'   => 'Specifies the widget\'s content',
                    'type'          => 'text'
                ),
            )
        );
    }
    
    /**
     * The front-end display of widget. User data is accesible through the $instance variable.
     */
    public function widget( $args, $instance ) 
    {
        $title = apply_filters( 'widget_title', empty( $instance['title'] ) ? '' : $instance['title'], $instance, $this->id_base );        
        
        echo $args['before_widget'];
        
        // Echo the widget's title if not empty
        if ( $title ) {
            echo $args['before_title'] . $title . $args['after_title'];
        }
        
        // Echo the widget's content if not empty
        if( $instance['content'] ) {
            echo '<p>'.$instance['content'].'</p>';
        }
        
        echo $args['after_widget'];
    }
}

Then register the widget as you would register any other widget:

function register_widgets() {
    register_widget( 'MyCoolWidget' );
}
add_action( 'widgets_init', 'register_widgets' );