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All I want to do is to take the values in an EE tag and reuse it in another EE tag.

E.g. Below is a breadcrumb, and I want to grab the parent category ID (here I’ve stored it in a PHP variable “$parent_cat_id”)...

{exp:gwcode_categories entry_id="{entry_id}" style="linear" limit="3"}
    <a href="http://{path=">{cat_name}</a> <?php $parent_cat_id = {cat_id}; ?> »
{/exp:gwcode_categories}

... so that it can be used in another EE tag (in the code, you can see the php tag inside the parameter “cat_id”)...

{exp:gwcode_categories cat_id="<?=$parent_cat_id?>" style="linear" class="tabs" last_only="yes"}
  <li{if segment_2 == url_title} class="active"{/if} {if count == 1}id="first-tab"{/if}>
    <a href="http://{cat_url_title}">{cat_name}</a>
  </li>
{/exp:gwcode_categories}

In the above code, the PHP variable “parent_cat_id” can be echoed outside of the EE tags, but not inside… I have not found an equivalent to the PHP variable. I have tried nesting the first EE tag inside the second, tried using the {preload_variable}, tried putting an EE query inside the gwcode_categories tag.

Any other thoughts or suggestions? I greatly appreciate it. Thanks!

Note: I am running Expression Engine 2.2.0.

If you embed the second set of code and pass the php variable through the embed, it should work.  Make sure you have php parsing stage set to output on the template where you are using php

{exp:gwcode_categories entry_id="{entry_id}" style="linear" limit="3"}
    <a href="http://{path=">{cat_name}</a> <?php $parent_cat_id = {cat_id}; ?> »
{/exp:gwcode_categories}


{embed="template" catid="<?= $parent_cat_id?>"}

Embedded Template

{exp:gwcode_categories cat_id="{embed:catid}" style="linear" class="tabs" last_only="yes"}
  <li{if segment_2 == url_title} class="active"{/if} {if count == 1}id="first-tab"{/if}>
    <a href="http://{cat_url_title}">{cat_name}</a>
  </li>
{/exp:gwcode_categories}

csmkt,

gwineman’s advice is good. Can you try that and let us know if that worked for you.

Note that you can change the PHP parse order of a template in it’s prefs from Output to Input too

I just want to thank you both for your replies, embedding another template worked great! This would have been a huge time-saver. Appreciate it.

Glad things are working again.. If anything else comes up, please do let us know in a new thread..