Fetch Channel Item by entry_id using the API

Sambo,

I am moving this thread to the Development and Programming forum for now as more appropriate there. It may help people wishing to reply if you gave a small bit of background to what you intend to do with the data or where you are trying to calling it from

Hi ,

Thanks John. I am writing an extension. What I am trying to do is a lookup from a field to another channel.

So in this channel I have say tour names and their prices. In other channel I am storing the tour type.

What I want to do is when commiting the second channel entry I am performing a lookup to the first channel to get the price adn then do some calculations with it.

Hope this makes sense.

Have a look at the channel_entries_model, although limited it might help with what your doing.

$entry_data = $this->EE->channel_entries_model->get_entry( $entry_id,$channel_id);

you have to pass a channel_id to get all the data for a entry. which you can get using the same call, but without the second parameter, like this

$query = $this->EE->channel_entries_model->get_entry( $entry_id);
$channel_id =  $query->row('channel_id');

I wonder if there is a better way to do this???