WordPress Settings Framework

The WordPress Settings Framework aims to take the pain out of creating settings pages for your WordPress plugins by effectively creating a wrapper around the WordPress settings API and making it super simple to create and maintain settings pages.

This repo is actually a working plugin which demonstrates how to implement WPSF in your plugins. See wpsf-test.php for details.

Setting Up Your Plugin

1. Drop wp-settings-framework.php in the root of your plugin folder.
2. Create a "settings" folder in your plugin root.
3. Create a settings file in your new "settings" folder (e.g. settings-general.php)

Now you can set up your plugin like:

class WPSFTest {

    private $plugin_path;
    private $wpsf;

    function __construct() 
    {	
        $this->plugin_path = plugin_dir_path( __FILE__ );
        
        // Include and create a new WordPressSettingsFramework
        require_once( $this->plugin_path .'wp-settings-framework.php' );
        $this->wpsf = new WordPressSettingsFramework( $this->plugin_path .'settings/settings-general.php' );
        // Add an optional settings validation filter (recommended)
        add_filter( $this->wpsf->get_option_group() .'_settings_validate', array(&$this, 'validate_settings') );
        
        // ...
    }
    
    // This page is added using add_menu_page()
    function settings_page()
	{
	    ?>
		<div class="wrap">
			<div id="icon-options-general" class="icon32"></div>
			<h2>WP Settings Framework Example</h2>
			<?php 
			// Output your settings form
			$this->wpsf->settings(); 
			?>
		</div>
		<?php
	}
	
	function validate_settings( $input )
	{
	    // Do your settings validation here
	    // Same as $sanitize_callback from http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_setting
    	return $input;
	}
    
    // ...
    
}

Your settings values can be accessed by getting the whole array:

// Get settings
$settings = wpsf_get_settings( $this->plugin_path .'settings/settings-general.php' );

Or by getting individual settings:

// Get individual setting
$setting = wpsf_get_setting( wpsf_get_option_group( $this->plugin_path .'settings/settings-general.php' ), 'general', 'text' );

The Settings Files

The settings files work by filling the global $wpsf_settings array with data in the following format:

$wpsf_settings[] = array(
    'section_id' => 'general', // The section ID (required)
    'section_title' => 'General Settings', // The section title (required)
    'section_description' => 'Some intro description about this section.', // The section description (optional)
    'section_order' => 5, // The order of the section (required)
    'fields' => array(
        array(
            'id' => 'text',
            'title' => 'Text',
            'desc' => 'This is a description.',
            'type' => 'text',
            'std' => 'This is std'
        ),
        array(
            'id' => 'select',
            'title' => 'Select',
            'desc' => 'This is a description.',
            'type' => 'select',
            'std' => 'green',
            'choices' => array(
                'red' => 'Red',
                'green' => 'Green',
                'blue' => 'Blue'
            )
        ),
        
        // add as many fields as you need...
        
    )
);

Valid fields values are:

• id - Field ID
• title - Field title
• desc - Field description
• type - Field type (text/textarea/select/radio/checkbox/checkboxes/color/file)
• std - Default value (or selected option)
• choices - Array of options (for select/radio/checkboxes)

See settings/settings-general.php for an example of possible values.

API Details

new WordPressSettingsFramework( string $settings_file [, string $option_group = ''] )

Creates a new settings option_group based on a setttings file.

• $settings_file - path to the settings file
• $option_group - optional "option_group" override (by default this will be set to the basename of the settings file)

wpsf_get_option_group( $settings_file )

Converts the settings file name to option group id

• $settings_file - path to the settings file

wpsf_get_settings( string $settings_file [, string $option_group = ''] )

Get an array of settings by the settings file or option_group

• $settings_file - path to the settings file
• $option_group - optional "option_group" override

wpsf_get_setting( $option_group, $section_id, $field_id )

Get a setting from an option group

• $option_group - option group id
• $section_id - section id
• $field_id - field id

Note: You can use wpsf_get_option_group() to get the option group id from the settings file path.

wpsf_delete_settings( string $settings_file [, string $option_group = ''] )

Delete all the saved settings from a settings file/option group

• $settings_file - path to the settings file
• $option_group - optional "option_group" override

Hooks & Filters

Filters

• [option_group_id]_settings_validate - Basically the $sanitize_callback from register_setting. Use $wpsf->get_option_group() to get the option group id.
• wpsf_defaults - Default args for a settings field

Hooks

• wpsf_before_field - Before a field HTML is output
• wpsf_before_field_[field_id] - Before a field HTML is output
• wpsf_after_field - After a field HTML is output
• wpsf_after_field_[field_id] - After a field HTML is output
• wpsf_before_settings - Before settings form HTML is output
• wpsf_after_settings - After settings form HTML is output
• wpsf_before_settings_fields - Before settings form fields HTML is output (inside the <form>)

Credits

The WordPress Settings Framework was created by Gilbert Pellegrom from Dev7studios.

Please contribute by reporting bugs and submitting pull requests.

Want to say thanks? Consider tipping me.

License (MIT)

Copyright © 2012 Dev7studios

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