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Michael Yaeger
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9 years 7 months ago #140679 by Michael Yaeger

Unable to access item reference in category.php was created by Michael Yaeger

I am trying to access item data in category.php by:

echo 'Item = '.$this->item->title;
echo $this->item->gallery;

However, I'm only able to access this data after line 124 in my code: www.codeshare.io/fW9ZJ

You can see my attempt to access that data on line 33 and 123. Neither return a value. However, the same code at lines 125 and 376 do.

Why isn't the data accessible?

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Krikor Boghossian
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9 years 7 months ago #140691 by Krikor Boghossian

Replied by Krikor Boghossian on topic Unable to access item reference in category.php

This data is only accessible from within the loop (foreach). You can not access it otherwise.

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9 years 7 months ago - 9 years 7 months ago #140759 by Michael Yaeger

Replied by Michael Yaeger on topic Unable to access item reference in category.php

OK, I am able to access the item data by:

foreach($this->secondary as $key => &$item) {}
echo 'Item = '.$item->title;
echo $item->gallery;

Is there a better way to get the item reference without running this empty loop?

Last edit: 9 years 7 months ago by Michael Yaeger.

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Krikor Boghossian
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9 years 7 months ago #140767 by Krikor Boghossian

Replied by Krikor Boghossian on topic Unable to access item reference in category.php

This data should be accessed from that loop.
I would suggest that you look at how the default category/ category_items files work.

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9 years 7 months ago #140773 by Michael Yaeger

Replied by Michael Yaeger on topic Unable to access item reference in category.php

Actually, this data CAN be accessed outside that loop as long as the loop runs first, even if empty.

See lines 33-40 which work:
www.codeshare.io/fW9ZJ#33

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