Adding template output to an array
Development and Programming
Hey guys,
So, as I’ve mentioned before, I just started learning EE last week and am seriously loving it. The way I learn, as I think many of us do, is just by playing with things and then inevitbly messing something up (but that’s the fun part).
Anyway, so I’m picking up my second plugin. The first one was easy enough…this one is being more complicated.
Say you have some basic EE tags like this:
{exp:weblog:entries weblog="weblog"}
{exp:myclass}{title}{/exp:myclass}
{/exp:weblog:entries}What I’d love to be able to do is take all of the values that are output by the {title} tag and add them to a single array. Now, it seems that with each loop of the weblog:entries tag, it’s calling a new instance of “myclass” and therefore esentially resetting any arrays that are being created.
So my questions are: 1. Is it possible to add all the values of the {title} tag for the entire weblog:entries loop to an array? 2. If not, is there a way to fetch the paramaters of the weblog:entries tag to run dynamically generated SQL queries within a plugin? 3. Any alternative methods?
I’ve been staring at the docs for hours but can’t figure anything out.
Hi VB,
You can try something like this:
{exp:myclass}
{exp:weblog:entries weblog="weblog" limit="5"}
{myclass:variable}{title}{/myclass:variable}
{/exp:weblog:entries}
{/exp:myclass}After exp:weblog:entries runs, you’ll have something like:
{exp:myclass}
{myclass:variable}Title 1{/myclass:variable}
{myclass:variable}Title 2{/myclass:variable}
{myclass:variable}Title 3{/myclass:variable}
{myclass:variable}Title 4{/myclass:variable}
{myclass:variable}Title 5{/myclass:variable}
{/exp:myclass}You can then use a regular expression to fetch the values between the variable pairs and do with them what you will. Does that help get you started?
