How to 'var swap' a 'var pair'?

Hiya,

If you are creating your own plugin then the way I usually throw out values is in this sort of way :

foreach ($TMPL->var_single as $key => $val)
            {
                $title = $query->row['title'];
                if ($key == "title")
                {
                $tagdata = $TMPL->swap_var_single($key, $title, $tagdata);
                }

            }

            $this->return_data .= $tagdata;
}

That kind of thing. Does that help at all?

Best wishes,

Mark

There is already a function to grab the data between var pairs, IIRC it is named get_data_between_var_pairs().

Also there is a function that mistakenly you may assume replaces the contents of the var pair with data, but it doesn’t. You will have to use a str_replace or regex replace alternative to achieve it - the function just removes the {var_pair}… {/var_pair} tags.

Mark, your suggestion is a good way of handling var_single variables, but not var_pair.

Daniel, I tried to use $TMPL->fetch_data_between_var_pairs and $TMPL->swap_var_pairs, but unfortunately neither could match my template. I found the correct regex pattern to use:

if (preg_match_all("/\{iterate param=['\"](.*)['\"]\}(((\s+)?.*(?<!\{\/iterate\}))*)\{\/iterate\}/", $tagdata, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER)) {
          foreach ($matches as $match) {
            $var_pair = $match[0];
            $param = $match[1];
            $var_pair_tagdata = $match[2];
        }
}

Hope this is some help to anyone else that has a problem swapping var_pair variables.

Thanks for your help guys, Mike

Oops sorry I mis-read what you had written above. Sorry about that.

Not a problem Mark, I appreciate the reply. It was nice to see an example of what others use for var_single vars too. I typically use $FNS->var_swap.

Cheers, Mike

What I tend to do is take the data between the var pairs and replace it with a unique marke (much shorter string). I can then do a very easy str_replace to put what I want between the var pairs.