I’ve searched and searched this site for the answer to what must be an obvious question…  I see how one places PHP inside EE tags.  What I do not see is how one might go about placing tag variables inside PHP.  I have placed all of my relevant PHP code between {exp:weblog:entries} tags but the field I would like to echo out just prints the curly braces and what’s between them, eg, the name of the field but not its value.

I know the codelet is reading the {exp:weblog:entries} tag because its reiterative count is the same as EE’s limit parameter that I set.

This question MUST have been answered before… perhaps it should go into the Knowledge Blog??

You did try adjusting the “Stage at which PHP should be parsed” radio’s in the template preferences, right?

Relevant Knowledge-Blog entry.

Chris Curtis - 20 June 2004 09:58 AM

Relevant Knowledge-Blog entry.

That link seems to be dead.  Is the entry still available elsewhere, please?

Depending on how you are using it, you might need to escape from the php for the EE tags. Can you give an example?

Tim Griffiths - 01 September 2005 05:10 AM

Depending on how you are using it, you might need to escape from the php for the EE tags. Can you give an example?

Here’s the sort of thing I’m trying to do.  The idea is to replace the standard output with the contents of the sorted $mainarray:
{exp:search:search_results}
<?php #assemble an array
$temparray = array(’{auto_path}’=>’{title}’);
$mainarray += $temparray;
?>
{/exp:search:search_results}
<?php #do array sort here ?>

That should produce lots of little PHP blocks which will be parsed on output, but it seems that the braces get evaluated as part of a malformed conditional/function call.  The parser then, as it should, rejects the whole thing. [sigh]  Ironically, the code produced if I turn off PHP parsing in the template is well-formed.

Tim of Bluestorm - 01 September 2005 04:48 AM

Chris Curtis - 20 June 2004 09:58 AM

Relevant Knowledge-Blog entry.

That link seems to be dead.  Is the entry still available elsewhere, please?

Assuming this is what Chris was referring to:

How to I turn on PHP parsing for a template

Ah, then that wouldn’t be what I need. 

As you can see from the code above, I’m trying to generate lots of PHP code blocks that include EE tags as string values.  Is there any way to prevent the braces that surround the EE tags from being misinterpreted?

Have a look at this knowledge blog entry explaining input and output.

That wasn’t the problem per se:  For some reason, the braces were being misinterpreted by the one of the core modules (hence my looking for “tags inside PHP”).

I’ve chucked my original code and written a new routine, which seems to do the job.  Here’s the bit that creates the array, in case it’s useful to anyone:

$crs = array({exp:search:search_results}’{exp:replacestring}{title}{/exp:replacestring}’ => ‘{exp:replacestring}{auto_path}{/exp:replacestring}’, {/exp:search:search_results} ‘theend’=>‘thatsallfolks’);
$ignoreme = array_pop($crs);

This lets me sort the links by path with asort(). 

My next job is to provide headings based on the links, but that’s a bit outside the scope of this thread.