Field-specific settings data

All the settings get merged into that array, so that specific field settings can override the globals.

What page (or method) are you trying to access these settings from?

Hi Pascal,

I am trying to access field settings from the replace_tag() method.

I believe my initial mistake was sticking the global settings into an array with the same name as the field-specific settings. The global settings are really only used to provide default values for when a new field is created. I have since changed the name of the global array but still can’t see anything else inside the settings property.

If you are saying that I should be able to see the field settings under the following circumstances then I will go looking for whatever I’ve done to clobber them:

function replace_tag($data, $params = array(), $tagdata = FALSE)
{
    $stuff = $this->settings['field_settings'];
    ...
}

Thanks!

So I ended up having to pull the field settings directly out of the database as follows:

$query = $this->EE->db->query('SELECT field_settings FROM exp_channel_fields WHERE field_id="'.$this->field_id.'"');
if ($query->num_rows() == 1) {
    $query = unserialize(base64_decode($query->row('field_settings')));
}

Please let me know if these settings are already in memory so I can avoid an unnecessary query. Thanks!