Playa Breaking a Simple Related Entries Template?

Being a third party extension, and the fact that it is working without Playa in the mix, I’m going to move this down to the Extensions forum.

Have you contacted the extension author about this?

-greg

I have indeed, thanks!

Hi all, Since this seems to involve Playa, not sure if this should be addressed here or in another forum, but I thought I’d try here first! Anyway, simple template follows:

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="smallPromos" limit="1" dynamic="off"}
{related_entries id="promo1"}<td><a href="http://{smallPromoLink}" target="_self" rel="noopener">{smallPromoImage}</a></td>{/related_entries}
{related_entries id="promo2"}<td><a href="http://{smallPromoLink}" target="_self" rel="noopener">{smallPromoImage}</a></td>{/related_entries}
{related_entries id="promo3"}<td><a href="http://{smallPromoLink}" target="_self" rel="noopener">{smallPromoImage}</a></td>{/related_entries}
{related_entries id="promo4"}<td><a href="http://{smallPromoLink}" target="_self" rel="noopener">{smallPromoImage}</a></td>{/related_entries}
{related_entries id="promo5"}<td><a href="http://{smallPromoLink}" target="_self" rel="noopener">{smallPromoImage}</a></td>{/related_entries}
{/exp:weblog:entries}

There is ONE smallPromo entry which contains 5 relationships. These relate to a smallPromo weblog which contains images links and anchor destinations. Unfortunately..when Playa is enabled, the output is the dreaded: {REL[3][promo1]w8A5w8n2REL} {REL[4][promo2]oJJVFWLKREL} {REL[5][promo3]BDTs9PjDREL} {REL[6][promo4]m3jZzgr6REL} {REL[7][promo5]w3TeWbNZREL} When I disable Playa, it magically works. Sadly, I really quite need Playa for this website, has anyone seen the above, or have an idea on how it could be resolved? Thanks in advance!

Have you tried deleting the custom field and adding it back in?

I have not. I’ll try re-creating the structure..

Does that work sometimes?

Hmmm, I deleted and re-created the smallPromoImage custom fields, as well as the custom relationship fields in the smallPromos weblog, to no affect.

Mmm I have come across this with Mark Huot’s multi relation extension and this is what I did sometimes. Try creating a new relationship field (different field name) and see if that works.

Aggh! You cursed me!

Now I am getting the same problem -

{REL[13][blog_related]zcLdsg6MREL}

yup, pretty annoying eh? 😊

I’m getting this issue now, added Playa and now my existing relationship fields have stopped working. Gah!

//EDIT// Solved - was running PHP4 and used Mark Huots fix.

Ah hah.. I’m running PHP Version 4.4.7..

Should I try to find a way to upgrade to PHP 5?

Or give this fix/hack a try - it’s dead easy to implement. You just need to remember to redo it should you update your version of EE which isn’t ideal.

Of course, if you can update to 5 easily then great. Wish we could.

Heh.. implementing that resulted in:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/whiteoak/public_html/bac_ee_system/modules/weblog/mod.weblog.php on line 3168

Yum 😊

Blimey. Can’t help you there I’m afraid - see, this is why you shouldn’t hack core system files! :lol: