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I am trying to set a variable for the entry id for use in:

{exp:channel:entries channel="channelname" entry_id="{embed:foo}” dynamic=“no” require_entry=“yes” limit=“1” disable=“pagination|member_data|categories|category_fields”}<title>{title}</title>{/exp:channel:entries}

I can use {segment_3} for example without issue.

I try to set

{preload_replace:foo="12345"} and it doesnt worked with {embed:foo} or just {foo}

I wrote a plugin that returns the value—{exp:entryid}

That will output the number but it doesn’t seem to stick on the entry_id variable.

I suspect its something simple I am doing wrong but at this point I am just going in circles.

In the plugin I return the value—$this->return_data = “12345”;

Any tips or insight is much appreciated.

Thanks!

{preload_replace:foo="12345"} should work once this is just text (not plugin output etc) and above your channel entries tag and in the same template:

{preload_replace:foo="12345"}
...
{exp:channel:entries channel="channelname" entry_id="{foo}"...}

If you put your channel entries tag in an embed, then you can pass a variable to it in the embed call and reference this within the embed:

{!--main template calls embed--}
{embed src="myembed" foo="12345}

{!--myembed embedded template code--}
{exp:channel:entries channel="channelname" entry_id="{embed:foo}"...}

If you want to use the output of a plugin as a parameter in a channel tag, I think this should work. The parse inward bit is needed to have things parsed in the right order:

{exp:channel:entries channel="channelname" entry_id="{exp:entryid}" parse="inward" ...}

If this general info does not help, if you can outline exactly what you are trying to do, someone should be able to help.

Tried a few ways you recommend

{exp:channel:entries channel="channelname" entry_id="{exp:entryid}” parse=“inward” dynamic=“no” require_entry=“yes” limit=“1” disable=“pagination|member_data|categories|category_fields”}<title>{title}</title>{/exp:channel:entries}

When I view debug code it becomes

{exp:channel:entries channel="channelname" entry_id="M00o93H7pQ09L8X1t49cHY01Z5j4TT91fGfr" parse="inward" dynamic="no" require_entry="yes" limit="1" disable="pagination|member_data|categories|category_fields"}

I think you might be coming up against this weirdness:
http://blog.ericlamb.net/2011/05/expressionengine-and-the-mystery-of-m00o93h7pq09l8x1t49chy01z5j4tt91fgfr/

Do you also output {exp:entryid} elsewhere in the same template?
It could be using it multiple times at different levels that is causing this - not sure, have not come up against this before myself.

If that;s the case, to debug, could you try removing all other references to {exp:entryid} apart from the one in the channel entries tag parameters and see if that works?

I removed the {exp:entryid} as output as I was debugging and it worked.  I actually use it twice in the exp:channel tag without issue now.  It just didn’t like the output.

Thanks!

great glad you got sorted 😊