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I’m trying to pull a value from an entry in one EE channel, make it a PHP var and reuse the value to limit the returns in a different EE channel.

{exp:channel:entries channel="publications_lancaster_current_pages"} 
<?php 
$theYear = "{subpage_year}";
?>
{/exp:channel:entries}
 
 
  <ul>
 {exp:channel:entries channel="publications_lancaster_current_entries" dynamic="no" search:article_year="<?php echo $theYear; ?>"} 
  <li><a href="http://{title_permalink=publications/listing_lancaster_current}">{title}</a></li>  
 {/exp:channel:entries}
 </ul>

PHP is turned on for the template and set to Input and is working fine.

The problem is that the way I’ve declared the var is as a literal “{subpage_year}”, which works OK only within its original channel:entries tags. If I try to use the EE tag without the quotes to set the var, I get a PHP error.

How can I get the value of {subpage_year} and use it in a different channel?

Maybe there’s a way to do this without PHP?

Try having this on your main page

{exp:channel:entries channel="publications_lancaster_current_pages"}
 {embed="template_group/template" subpage_yr = "{subpage_year}"}
{/exp:channel:entries}

Then create a new template, which will be embedded, as you see in the second line of the code above (below is the code for the embedded template)

{exp:channel:entries channel="publications_lancaster_current_entries" dynamic="no" search:article_year="{embed:subpage_yr"}
{if count==1}<ul>{/if}
  <li><a href="http://{title_permalink=publications/listing_lancaster_current}">{title}</a></li>
{if count==total_results}</ul>{/if}
{/exp:channel:entries}

Works like a charm! Thanks!

I never would have thought to use an embedded template to get around that limitation. Great to know.