Smarty

[bkatsma]

For some reason I am having problems getting a varible to pass correctly into my smarty template.


[php:1:23c02a6cda]<?php
php code:

//Create an array of main category ids
while(list($cid) = $xoopsDB->fetchRow($maincatids))
{
$tid = $myts->makeTboxData4Show($cid);

//Set max counter to count how many subcategories for array. This will tell us when we hit the last item
$max = 0;

//query DB for Main categories and ids
$maincat = $xoopsDB->query("SELECT cid, title FROM xlts_vnd_cat WHERE pid = 0 and cid = $tid");

//*********************MAIN CATEGORIES**********************
//create an array for Main categories and assign them to the template
while(list($cid, $title) = $xoopsDB->fetchRow($maincat))
{
$mcid = $myts->makeTboxData4Show($cid);
$mtitle = $myts->makeTboxData4Show($title);
$xoopsTpl->append('tid', array('tid' => $tid));
$xoopsTpl->append('maincats', array('cid' => $cid, 'title' => $title));

//*********************SUB CATEGORIES**********************
//create an array for Sub categories and assign them to the template
$subcat = $xoopsDB->query("SELECT cid, title FROM xlts_vnd_cat WHERE pid = $cid");

while(list($cid, $title) = $xoopsDB->fetchRow($subcat))
{
$cid = $myts->makeTboxData4Show($cid);
$title = $myts->makeTboxData4Show($title);
$xoopsTpl->append("$mtitle" , array('cid' => $cid, 'title' => $title));
$max ++;
}//End main Sub Categories
}//End main Categories
}//End main Category id's
?>[/php:1:23c02a6cda]

I am creating an array foreach mancategory.

There arrays are as follows:

[that_guy_gomer]

I have the exact same thing happeneing to me, except I chose to use foreach loops, but problem is the same. I am getting the first character of each value, instead of the entire value.

Here is my php:

[messju]

that_guy_gomer: you want to use $content.title not $item.title. $item is a string in your example, not an array.

bkatsma: i'm sure in your example the problem is the same somewhere.

if you access a string like $string.foo you get the first character. actually you get the nth character, but n is "foo" which is zero when casted to an integer.

[that_guy_gomer]

Thank you so much. That was driving me nuts. I'm still not 100% clear why that's the case. I might have missed it in the documentation.

[messju]

it's a side effect of php. smarty translates variables {$foo.bar} to php-code like "$foo['bar']" .
smarty does not (and can not check) check during translation if $foo is an array.
if $foo is an array everything is fine.
if $foo is a string php uses the value inside the [] as an index n and returns the nth character of the string. 'bar' is casted to zero, so it's $foo[0] for php, and that's the first character in the string $foo.

BTW don't use the $foo[$i] notation for strings in you php-code, yourself. it's disencouraged and $foo{$i} should be used to access a string char by char. a string is not an array in php!