Making a variable available both inside and outside conditionals

Hiya,

I’m not the best at that kind of thing but would this work?

$this->return_data = $tagdata;

$this->return_data .= $FNS->prep_conditionals($TMPL->tagdata, $conds);

Note the dot (.) before the second = sign.

Don’t know if that helps at all?

Best wishes,

Mark

Hi Mark,

Thanks for suggestion. Unfortunately it does not offer proper solution: tagdata gets outputted twice - once with variable rendered correctly, but with conditional not rendered, and once with variable not rendered, but with conditional rendered correctly.

Any new suggestions?

Well as I said before I’m not really the best person at this sort of thing as I am still learning it all myself but perhaps you could show the code that you are using at the moment in your plugin and then I can take a look and also many others on the forums too. I’m sure that if I don’t get it that someone else will. In fact I’m also sure that someone else will have the answer probably about 1,000 times quicker than me too!! 😉

Some code that you are trying to do would help though in any case.

Best wishes,

Mark

Hi Mark,

My code is very simple. I want to have the variable {entries_number} to be available for use both inside and outside conditionals. Now I succeed to achieve only one thing but not both.

The code is here:

//Create conditionals array
    $conds['entries_number'] = $entriesnumber;
    
    // Check if there is {entries_number} variable placed between {exp:entries_number} and {/exp:entries_number} tag pair
    if (strpos($tagdata, '{entries_number}') > 0 OR strpos($tagdata, '{entries_number}') === 0)
    {
      // If there is {entries_number} variable, then return entries number as variable's output
      $tagdata = str_replace('{entries_number}', $entriesnumber, $tagdata);
      $this->return_data = $tagdata;
    }
    else
    {
      // If there is no {entries_number} variable, then make entries_number variable available for use in conditionals
      $this->return_data = $FNS->prep_conditionals($TMPL->tagdata, $conds);
    }

Any suggestion appreciated.

Have a look at some of the core files (preferably the smaller modules), they’re doing in there exactly what you’re trying to achieve, also you might need to use

$TMPL->swap_var_single

.

Hi Peter,

Thanks for suggestion. Studying the files I found out that instead of writing

$this->return_data = $FNS->prep_conditionals($TMPL->tagdata, $conds);

it is possible to write

$tagdata = $FNS->prep_conditionals($tagdata, $conds);

This mode of introducing conditionals does not mention return_data and is perfectly compatible with the statement

$this->return_data = $tagdata;

So, now I can both to output some data through a variable and make the variable to be available in conditionals by writing the code as this:

$conds['my_variable'] = $my_variable;
$tagdata = $FNS->prep_conditionals($tagdata, $conds);
$tagdata = str_replace('{my_variable}', $my_variable, $tagdata);
$this->return_data = $tagdata;

Concerning the function swap_var_single I am not sure, whent it should be used. str_replace function does the job and it seems that in EE core files str_replace function is used quite often in places where you might expect to find swap_var_single.

Thanks again, Mark and Peter, for your help.