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Hopefully someone can shed some light on this. I’m trying to pass the current group_id from the logged in user into the search parameter of the exp:channel:entries tag. But it is not working.

This works:

{exp:channel:entries search:custom_field="1" }
    channel content
{/exp:channel:entries}

This doesn’t:

{exp:channel:entries search:custom_field="{group_id}" }
    channel content
{/exp:channel:entries}

Any insight on why this does not work would be greatly appreciated.

-a

weird that should work.
Does

{group_id}

on itself do anything?
Is the user logged in?

I’m wondering if it has something to do with being a number or a character. Maybe the custom_field needs to be configured differently. {group_id} does work in all other instances, both outside the channel entry tags and inside the entry tags.

Ok. solved. Template needs to be set to parse PHP on input. Member fields are parsed way later in the parse order so the variables won’t get generated until eveything else is done. Which means they don’t get to be used as parameters in your channel tags. So in order to make it work you have to do a little php…

<?php
$group_id = $this->EE->session->userdata['group_id'];
?>

and then call it using php in the template

search:channel_field="<?php echo $group_id; ?>"

Hope this helps….

Hey adrake9,

What you were running into here is EE’s parse order. {group_id} is a late-parsed global variable, it isn’t read until after the channel entries tag has processed. It looks as though you have found a workaround using PHP.

If you need anything else, just let us know.

Cheers!