It provides a modal with rows of form fields that you specify. As many options can be added as the user desires. This form field has a jQuery based javascript file as a dependency.
To create a form field, first create a repeatable form field as usual. The fieldset tag must have a name the same as your repeatable field name with "_modal" appended to the end of it. It should also have the in the fieldset tag.
Within this fieldset, then include the form fields that you wish to have repeating (as with any form field).
Example XML Definition
<field name="list_templates"
type="repeatable"
icon="list"
description="PLG_TINY_FIELD_TEMPLATE_FIELD_ELEMENTS_DESC"
label="PLG_TINY_FIELD_TEMPLATE_FIELD_ELEMENTS_LABEL"
default='{"template":["Layout","Simple snippet"],
"location":["layout1.html","snippet1.html"],
"description":["HTMLLayout","Simple HTML snippet"]}'>
<fieldset hidden="true" name="list_templates_modal" repeat="true">
<field name="template"
label="PLG_TINY_FIELD_TEMPLATE_FIELD_NAME_LABEL"
size="30"
type="text" />
<field name="location"
label="PLG_TINY_FIELD_TEMPLATE_FIELD_LOCATION_LABEL"
description="PLG_TINY_FIELD_TEMPLATE_LOCATION_DESC"
size="30"
type="filelist"
directory="media/editors/tinymce/templates"
exclude="index.html"
hide_default="true"
hide_none="true" />
<field name="description"
label="PLG_TINY_FIELD_TEMPLATE_FIELD_DESCRIPTION_LABEL"
size="30"
type="textarea" />
</fieldset>
</field>
Mandatory Parameters
Optional Parameters
The settings of a repeatable form field are returned as a json encoded array (same as the default).
// get the repeatable field value and decode it
$list_hosts = json_decode( $params->get('list_templates'),true);
// loop your result
foreach( $list_templates as $list_templates_idx => $list_template ) {
// do something clever for each of the templates
}