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Bucklash
9 years ago
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Hi Sebloders

Question
How would you call a single value stored by FieldX, using either $cck,  $fields and $config?
Answer
"$cck->get('my_fieldx')->value[0]->value"  // $cck used in template file ie index.php
"$fields[ 'my_fieldx' ]->value[0]->value; // $fields used in fields ie beforeRender Field
"$config['storages'][$table][$name] = $result; // See  Config Explained for a glimpse of usage
The  answer was courtesy of posokhoff who is now officially 'Today's Living Legend"!! 

     

Example of Usage

If am viewing an Article with the Content View, using seb_one template, I can find the data available  by placing in the seb_one template index.php file the following  print_r() code:

<?php print_r($cck) and die; ?>

(you might be able to use the extension J!Dump, but I can not figure out how to get $cck data from it yet):

If I tidy up the code and search for the fieldx data, I can see the following

[my_fieldx_name] => stdClass Object ( 
    [id] => 5023 [title] => My FieldX 
    [name] => my_fieldx_name // etc... ... 
    [value] => Array ( // value of fieldx field is an Array 
        [0] => stdClass Object ( // first in Array 
            [id] => 5022 // I can call this 
            [title] => Cool Things // or this 
            [storage_table] => #__cck_store_form_my_content_type_table // or this etc... 
            ... 
            [value] => My Funky Value 
            [html] => My Funky Value

I can access required fieldx data like this:

$cck->get('my_fieldx_name')->value[0]->value 
$cck->get('my_fieldx_name')->value[0]->html 
$cck->get('my_fieldx_name')->value[0]->storage_table etc...

 

Syntax Note

This syntax:

$cck->get('my_field')->value 
$cck->get('my_field')->storage_table 
$cck->get('my_field')->html

can be exchanged with:

$cck->getValue('my_field') 
$cck->getHtml('my_field') 
$cck->getStorage_table('my_field')

 

However:

$cck->get('my_fieldx_name')->value[0]->value 
$cck->get('my_fieldx_name')->value[0]->html 
$cck->get('my_fieldx_name')->value[0]->storage_table etc...

can not become:

$cck->getValue('my_fieldx_name')->value[0] 
$cck->getHtml('my_fieldx_name')->value[0] 
$cck->getStorage_table('my_fieldx_name')->value[0] etc...
My original question is has been removed as I now have the answer, funky!
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