Remove "#" from index number on repeater label

[Chris Falkenstein]

Hi all.  I setup a repeater. I'd like to use a unique label for each repeater item.  I opted to use the repeater's index number. Perfect, but it's adding the pound (#) sign in the label.  Can I include the repeater index number without the pound sign?  How?  See my repeater item below (screen shot)

[adrian]

It works for me. Is that what you are looking for?

 

[adrian]

Sorry, ignore the stupidity in my last post - I did #1 instead of #n

I'll look into it and get back to you in a minute

[adrian]

Sorry for the delay - I got sidetracked.

You can fix this easily with a little hook magic. Place this in your /site/ready.php file:

$this->addHookAfter("InputfieldRepeater::renderRepeaterLabel", function($event) {
    $return = $event->return;
    $event->return = str_replace('#', '', $return);
});

 

[Chris Falkenstein]

Thanks. It worked. 

What's this ready.php file do?  I suppose I need to create this?

 

[adrian]

1 minute ago, Chris Falkenstein said:

Thanks.  What's this ready.php file do?  I suppose I need to create this?

Yes, you will need to create it. Basically any code in that file will be run when ProcessWire is "ready". You can read more about it here:

https://processwire.com/blog/posts/processwire-2.6.7-core-updates-and-more/#new-core-files-for-site-hooks

[Chris Falkenstein]

Wonderus!

[adrian]

2 minutes ago, Chris Falkenstein said:

Wonderus!

Yeah, hooks are very cool and not as scary as they may first appear. 

Be sure to check out the Captain Hook panel in Tracy - it gives you a list of available hooks for each file/class/module in ProcessWire. It can take a little time to figure out what you should be looking for, but once you do, the skies the limit!

[Robin S]

That # symbol has bugged me too: https://github.com/processwire/processwire-issues/issues/284

When you look into the Repeater module code it seems very much like that symbol only exists to allow a Javascript fix to a problem that could be easily solved in the module PHP.