[solved] Gallery call using a Smarty var in the dir param

[paulbaker]

I have a ListIt2 instance in which there is a text input field "gallerydir" - this holds the directory name of a Gallery associated with the product, e.g. "Festival". I have created a Products template in which the idea is to show the Gallery for the particular product.

I am trying to do this with this in the template:

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{assign var="gallerycall" value="Gallery dir='Portfolio/`$item->gallerydir`' template='RoyalSlider'"} 

{eval var=$gallerycall}

This is simply printing Gallery dir='Portfolio/Festivalflavour' template='RoyalSlider' rather than evaluating it.

Summary: I am trying to "inject" the Smarty variable $item->gallerydir in to a Gallery call. How should I be doing it?

Thanks

[Dr.CSS]

Why not a regular Gallery tag with the variable where it needs to go..?

[paulbaker]

Thanks Dr.CSS.

When I put this in my template:

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{Gallery dir='Portfolio/$item->gallerydir' template='RoyalSlider'} 
{$item->gallerydir}

I get this output:

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<div class="gallery radius10">

</div>
 
Festivalflavour

i.e. an empty gallery div. You can see that $item->gallerydir is not being interpreted as a variable. But it is printing OK when you call it on the second line. Festivalflavour is definitely the correct name for the gallery directory.

[Jo Morg]

Try:

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{Gallery dir="Portfolio/{$item->gallerydir}" template='RoyalSlider'}

It should work...

[paulbaker]

ARGH!

Thank you so much Jo. That's it.

I've been caught out by pesky single and double quotes before.

I hope my public humiliation helps out someone in the future.

[Jo Morg]

I've been caught out by pesky single and double quotes before.

Been there more often than I dare admit...