Template variables - parent_node_id in adding new content

Sunday 29 May 2011 10:16:00 am

When adding a new element in front end (so not from admin control panel) I need to access the id of that element's parent (I created a new datatype that needs to care about this info).

It should be something like $module_result.parent_node_id. The bad part is that $module_result seems not to be set, neither $pagedata or other things I tried.

Sunday 29 May 2011 12:13:40 pm

Thank you for your reply, Niko

Unfortunately, that did not work. Also

     {foreach $object as $item}
        {$item} az
        {/foreach}

Returned nothing, not even the az that would say that it went through the loop. On the other hand, not even the $pagedesign variable is not set, and it is used for sure in the display of the page.

So... my conclusion is that almost no variables are set before creating the form, and that is in the core of eZ, so I cannot change the location where to create it.

On the other hand, I just found where I can set template variables in php. Is there any global that knows the page id or the parent id?

Or is it possible to be a scope change, so that I cannot access the variables set before?

Sunday 29 May 2011 4:11:28 pm

Hi Sao, just a few suggetions:

• try using $object.current.temp_main_node
• try using {$object|attribute(show)} and look at the output you get
• you can pass parameters to attribute_edit_gui the same way you pass it to {include}, for example like this: {attribute_edit_gui attribute=myattribute some_parameter='some_value'}. After that, you can use this parameter in the attribute edit gui template like this: $#ContentAttribute:some_parameter
• you can use this parameters/variables also in the templates that are included from the attribute edit gui template, like for example the embed template for an object inside an XML Block attribute

Hope some of this helps.

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Tuesday 31 May 2011 12:30:04 am

Hi Sao, Marko, Niko,

An interesting blog-post + discussion by Steven, you should have a look at this : http://share.ez.no/blogs/steven-e.-bailey/wherefore-art-thou-data (discussion here)

Cheers !

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