My module hates me.
Development and Programming
On my development site, I’m working on a quote tool for a client, and in the process, I’m developing my first custom module. Woo!
Before I updated to 1.6, it worked, now, even though it IS returning the $tagdata variable at the end of the module (and I can echo $tagdata to see it all there, with the module’s variables replaced, but without the conditionals and such done), nothing in the tag pair gets printed. I turned on template debugging, but it doesn’t seem to be returning any errors.
Blergh.
Got it!
I had been simply calling “return $tagdata,” but that did work.
I changed it to $this->return_data =& $tagdata, and that did work. Woo!
return $foo;Will work fine in a module. The only exception is the constructor method, since constructors cannot return values when initialializing the object. Incidentally, I do not see any benefit to assigning that by reference.
Yeah, I just copied and pasted from another module. ;P And it was the constructor.
I blame whoever drank the last of the coffee.
Oooh a quote module… Sounds very interesting… Is it going to be something you’ll share with the community…
I just spent an hour this morning drawing a flow chart of how we come up with our prices and was thinking how on earth it would be possible to make it automated on the site. I really do need to look into the php of it.
Right now it’s VERY site-specific, though I do plan to try and abstract things a lot and see how useful I can make it for the general populace, after I get done.
Cool. Yeah I don’t have the foggiest of how to even start it so your way ahead of me. It’ll be interesting to see it even if you only get it sorted for that one site.
Good luck.