smarty debug - getting variables

[seymourjames +]

In the smarty debug console I can see an array of variables generated from searchresults.php I would like to use one of them in the layout.tpl file.

I see something like this

{$results} Array (10)
0 => Array (22)
id => "516"
owner => "43"
title => "BORDEAUX - EXTRAORDINARY CHATEAU"
featured => "N"
section => "1"
.
.

I would like to get hold of the title => part of the array and use it in a metatag. Something like

<title>French Property For Sale - BORDEAUX - EXTRAORDINARY CHATEAU</title>

how do I access or call it?

[Lhotch +]

{$results.0.title} will grab the title from the first array within the array.

http://www.smarty.net/manual/en/language.variables.php

[seymourjames +]

thanks - I looked in the forum but did not find an answer. This will allow some neat tricks to be done with metatags on the searchresults pages.

[seymourjames +]

Is there a way to get the value of the 'type' variable in showlistings.tpl or preferably in layout.tpl when using the designer version.

For example {$smarty.get.type} = an integer

What I would like is the category string itself like the category slug.

Same thing with

{$smarty.get.owner} = an integer

I would like to access the actual username for example. Looking at the smarty manual is not helping on this occasion or I am missing it.

[Lhotch +]

Originally Posted by seymourjames

Is there a way to get the value of the 'type' variable in showlistings.tpl or preferably in layout.tpl when using the designer version.

For example {$smarty.get.type} = an integer

What I would like is the category string itself like the category slug.

Same thing with

{$smarty.get.owner} = an integer

I would like to access the actual username for example. Looking at the smarty manual is not helping on this occasion or I am missing it.

Im not quite following where you came up with $smarty.get.type or $smarty.get.owner.

the "get" in the above examples is looking to "get" the value of the variable called "type" from the URL.

If you had a URL in the browser that looked like this.....

http://mysite.com/index.php?type=12

$smarty.get.type would display 12

http://www.smarty.net/manual/en/lang...les.smarty.php

[seymourjames +]

Hi Larry,

Exactly. I am getting those from the url generated by searchresults.php but what I really would like to do is know that if I have type=12 in the url then category = california for example (the search was on the category called california). One way is to do a big case statement (logicaly)

case 0: all regions
case1: nebraska
case2: wyoming

Etc.

It would be clumsy to test for every category that way of course. The reason I want to get the category (corresponding to that type) is so I can write nice metatags for the search results page. Likwise if it is a search results page which come from 'more ads from seller'. I would like to know who the owner is (a string), not just owner=5 or whatever (who is number 5?).

Could I not query the database to ask who owner number 5 is or what is category 7? Not sure about how I would do that.

[seymourjames +]

Does anyone know how to get the category or owner string (the text) from a search into the showlistings or layout files?

[Maffo +]

The best way to do this is get the Developers Edition as you get the entire code. As you are wanting to make alterations, you will be able to make alterations as well as learn PHP. $99 to learn PHP

[Maffo +]

Dont take that as offensive Seymour, youve been on this site a while now, thats just where I reckon you should be and as youve pretty much fathomed the html and how smarty works. Now its time for php, sql and the likes.

[seymourjames +]

Tis true perhaps. There are several things I would like to do. One thing is needed though in my opinion for the designer edition and that is some handy functions which can be called to return variables in all sorts of places - like what category is defined in a search, who is the owner in the search, etc. These are needed in order to build good title tags on pages.