Can I Create a Way for Users to Add Fields from the Dashboard and/or create Fields with Same Handle?

Question

I'm trying to create a Matrix field containing plain text blocks of two kinds, one for providing Youtube video embed codes, and one for providing a description. What I want to know is, is there a way to make it so users can add another field of either kind if they want to embed another video and/or provide another description, or do I have to "build" each field option in manually?

For example, the less elegant way I tried to solved this problem involved creating multiple fields, but since the handles all have to be different, I tacked a number onto each (mainYoutubeEmbed, youtubeEmbed2, youtubeEmbed3, and etc.) This just seems so clumsy and is completely non-DRY. The other option I considered to make it slightly better was to create a bunch of generic fields all with the same title and handle (so I could just loop through them), but Craft says that the handles must be unique.

Is there any way around this or a way to make it at least a little better, or is the best approach really to just create a bunch of fields and hope that my users don't need more in the future? Maybe a plug-in or magic incantation of some kind?? :)

PS. I know the titles can be the same, but I changed them to match the handles because if I find that I'm stuck with this janky method, I want it to be as easy as possible to "see" how it's laid-out.

Thank you in advance for all constructive advice.

Answer 1

I might get you wrong but they must have the option to add as many youtube embed videos as they want?

Isn't it an option to let your client make a new block for every embed and just loop over the blocks they made?

So your block would look like:

Youtube Video (block)

• Youtube embed link
• Youtube Description

So they just have to add a block when they want a new one and you can just loop over them like you would with any matrixblock?