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Hello, I’m working with taxonomy, but my question is not directly related to Taxonomy but rather the embed feature in EE.

Basically, I’m embedding a template as shown here: http://iain.co.nz/taxonomy/tags/get_children_ids.html

the main code that’s not working is this:

{embed='global_embeds/sub_menu_tabs' entry_ids='{exp:taxonomy:get_children_ids tree_id="1" entry_id="{entry_id}"}'}

when I pass a simple word like “test” it does fine. And when I simply print out the code…

{exp:taxonomy:get_children_ids tree_id="1" entry_id="{entry_id}"}

it also displays correctly the string. But when I take that code and pass it into the embed variable, it doesn’t go through. It comes out in the embedded template as blank.

What I have to do to get it working is enable PHP on the template and pass it in like this…

<?php
    $taxonomy_children_ids = "{exp:taxonomy:get_children_ids tree_id='2' entry_id='{entry_id}'}";
?>
{embed="global_embeds/sub_menu_tabs" entry_ids="<?php echo $taxonomy_children_ids ?>"}

Which seems very odd, I’d rather not have to enable PHP if I don’t really have to.

It’s a parse order issue. Basically you’re triple-nesting (entry_id with in taxonomy as a parameter for embed) and that won’t work. A PHP solution might be your best option here.

Hi gmatoso,

I’ve recently come across this too, I haven’t had time to investigate but I found a fix to be calling the tag in a comment just above your embed tag, like so

<!-- {exp:taxonomy:get_children_ids tree_id="1" entry_id="{entry_id}"} -->
{embed='global_embeds/sub_menu_tabs' entry_ids='{exp:taxonomy:get_children_ids tree_id="1" entry_id="{entry_id}"}'}

the tag output gets put into a session variable the first time, meaning the second instance is recieved from there, and voila.

Like I said, my time is really limited right now but I have begun the rewrite for Taxonomy 1.0,  I’ll see what I can do about a better fix long term.

Thank for sharing this with us, iain. Closing this one, please post again in case there’s anything else. Thanks.