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[solved] Gallery call using a Smarty var in the dir param
Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2014 5:53 pm
by 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 $item->gallerydir in to a Gallery call. How should I be doing it?
Thanks
Re: Gallery call using a Smarty variable in the dir paramete
Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2014 6:47 pm
by Dr.CSS
Why not a regular Gallery tag with the variable where it needs to go..?
Re: Gallery call using a Smarty variable in the dir paramete
Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2014 8:56 pm
by paulbaker
Thanks Dr.CSS.
When I put this in my template:
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{Gallery dir='Portfolio/$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 $item->gallerydir is not being interpreted as a variable. But it is printing OK when you call it on the second line. Festivalflavour is definitely the correct name for the gallery directory.
Re: Gallery call using a Smarty variable in the dir paramete
Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2014 9:01 pm
by Jo Morg
Try:
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{Gallery dir="Portfolio/{$item->gallerydir}" template='RoyalSlider'}
It should work...
Re: Gallery call using a Smarty variable in the dir paramete
Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2014 9:12 pm
by 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.
Re: [solved] Gallery call using a Smarty var in the dir para
Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2014 9:41 pm
by Jo Morg
paulbaker wrote:I've been caught out by pesky single and double quotes before.
Been there more often than I dare admit...