Embed Not Working as Advertised

Maybe the solution is to call a template from an addon, but how do I do that? The template class documentation seems more concerned with a template calling a module..

Can you post some of the code from the second template that is inserting the entry?

You have access to the template class -> $this->EE->TMPL .. have a look in libraries/Template.php and see what functions you can run. (ie. for instance the run_template_engine(templage_group_name, template_name))

Can you post some of the code from the second template that is inserting the entry?

Sure, this is the function in the addon that takes care of the post and creates a new entry:

function ajax_send(){ $this->EE->load->library(‘api’); $this->EE->api->instantiate(‘channel_entries’); $this->EE->api->instantiate(‘channel_fields’); if(!isset($_POST[‘msg’])){return;} $message = trim($_POST[‘msg’]); $loggedin = false; if ($this->EE->session->userdata(‘member_id’)>0){$loggedin = true;} if(!$loggedin || !strlen($message)){return;} $data = array( ‘title’ => $message,’entry_date’ => time(),); if ($this->EE->api_channel_entries->submit_new_entry(5, $data) === FALSE) { show_error('An Error Occurred Creating the Entry'); } }

I have used code like below to load and parse a template inside of an addon before:

$this->EE->load->library('template', NULL, 'my_template');
                
    $this->EE->my_template->depth = 1;
        
    $this->EE->my_template->fetch_and_parse($template_group, $template_name, FALSE);
        
    $template = $this->EE->my_template->parse_globals($this->EE->my_template->final_template);

Thanks. The template code works, but the entries still will not display the last entry I inserted. Any ideas?

OK Either 1) the “$this->EE->api_channel_entries->submit_new_entry” function does not runat once, but rather later on e.g. when the template has completed processing

OR

2) The “$this->EE->channel_entries_model->get_entries” is cached somehow and therfore not showing the latest insertion

Any ideas ?

By querying the database using the CI Active Record class I can see that the insertion is occuring at once (like it should). The problem is then that the get_entries method is run by a cache or similar?

I am stuck. Any ideas at all?

Do you have to go through the channel_entries_model? If you are able to query and see the record has been created then just create your own model in your add-on and run the query inside there yourself.

Hm. Yes I guess this would be possible, but it will grow cumbersome as I use this approach on many ajax functions on the site. It doesn’t really “feel” right. Should I already be giving up on the channel_entries model? I have a feeling that if I can get to the root of the problem I can use the regular entries tag like I set out to do in the first place. Is there nothing else I can try, do or understand before giving up entirely?

This is just SO strange. If I create a new instance of the channel_entries_model it works. Is this the only way? Is there no reset() function… on models?

$this->EE->load->model(“channel_entries_model”, “my_entries”, TRUE); $this->EE->db->limit(3); $this->EE->db->order_by(“entry_id”, “desc”); $query_result = $this->EE->my_entries->get_entries($channel_id, array(“author_id”,”title”,”entry_date”));