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Can't call $this->EE from within php functions in templates

December 16, 2011 10:12am

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#1 / Dec 16, 2011 10:12am

Trend Hunter
81 posts

Hi,

I have php code (and thus functions) within templates in my EE application. After upgrading to 2.3 and changing some calls like $DB->query to $this->EE->db->query(), there are issues within functions.

For instance, within functions I am unable to reference the global EE object ($this->EE) due to the obvious scope issue.

Is anyone aware of a best practice for dealing with this?

Thanks!

#2 / Dec 16, 2011 2:36pm

Rob Sanchez

335 posts

In your functions you can do:

function some_custom_function
{
    $EE =& get_instance();

    $EE->db->query('SELECT * FROM exp_table');
}

#3 / Dec 18, 2011 8:25am

Sean C. Smith
3818 posts

Trend,

Did your Rob’s code help you?

Rob, thanks for the assist.

Sean