A basic Wordpress Widget class to extend and easy create your own custom widgets.

In order to create fast a wordpress widget, without wondering about admin side and saving-update methods just follow these steps:

1. Download lion2486-widget.php file.
2. Include it to your file (with require_once( __DIR__ . '/lion2486-widget.php' );).
3. Extend the class Lion2486_Widget (like class Lion2486_Example extends Lion2486_Widget).
4. Overwrite class fields $WidgetID, $WidgetName, $WidgetDescription and $textDomain.
5. Create a class constructor (__construct()) that calls parent::__construct() and define your widget fields into $this->fields class field as following

$this->fields = array(
   $this->field(
       'title',                    //Name of the field
       'Title',                    //Title (auto translation supported)
       'The widget title field.',  //Description (auto translation supported)
       'text',                     //Type of the field
       'Enter Title',              //Default value
       '',                         //Current value
       $this->textDomain           //text-domain to use
   )
  // , more fields here
);

6. Overwrite the method public function widget( $args, $instance ) to display your widget with your way!
7. Create an object of your class (like new Lion2486_Example();).
8. READY!

For some help see example-widget file.

If you want to use your widget like an standalone plugin, you have to include the wordpress plugin comment into the file like below

/*
Plugin Name: Lion2486 example Widget
Plugin URI: https://codescar.eu
Description: An example widget using Lion2486 Widget Class.
Version: 1.0
Author: lion2486
Author URI: https://codescar.eu
License: None
*/

You can see the class and method documentation into source file for more info, some basic and useful information below

Acceptable values of types: String - Array text - array('dataType' => 'text', 'attr' => array( 'data-my' => 'my', 'length' => '10' ) ) textarea - array('dataType' => 'textarea', 'attr' => array( 'data-my' => 'my', 'length' => '10' ) ) media - array('dataType' => 'media', 'attr' => array( 'data-my' => 'my', 'length' => '10' ) ) - array('dataType' => 'input', 'inputTag' => 'HTML_TAG', ...) wysiwyg - array('dataType' => 'wysiwyg', ...) html - array('dataType' => 'html', ...)

• Default method

  public function widget( $args, $instance ) {
  
      //Provides all registered instance's variables and values local accessible like $title and into $vars array.
      extract( $vars = $this->form_fields( $instance ) );
  
      foreach( $this->fields as $var ){
          if( $var instanceof Lion2486_Widget_fieldset )
              echo $var->displayValue( $instance );
      }
  
  }
  

• Custom method

public function widget( $args, $instance ) {

    //Provides all registered instance's variables and values local accessible like $title and into $vars array.
    extract( $vars = $this->form_fields( $instance ) );

    //we have at least 2 fields with names title and body.
    echo "<h1>{$vars['title']}</h1>";       //OR echo "<h1>{$title}</h1>";
    echo "<p>{$vars['body']}</p>";          //OR echo "<p>{$body}</p>";

}

It is an initial version, more field types will be included and a better handling of the media are in schedule. Thank you.