Correct way to get ListField values

[Paul West]

I want to build a select input and populate the options from a List Field for a front facing filter/search tool.

How is the best way of getting the List options? 

I know the eav attribute name so should I find via that?

Also this page in the docs is 404 http://book.quickappscms.org/developers/eav-api/fetching-entities.html

Thanks,

Paul

[Chris]

Hi,

I'll see why there a missing page on the book, but for the moment you can read this section of the book here: 

https://github.com/quickapps-plugins/eav#fetching-entities

However, rather than EAV you should use Field API, which is built ON TOP of the EAV API: http://book.quickappscms.org/developers/field-api.html

Also, if you need you place such input at frontend I would highly recommend you to use shortcodes. This would allow you to encapsulate all the "magic" in one place, separate PHP and HTM and create reusable elements: http://book.quickappscms.org/developers/shortcode-api.html

Regards!