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Dynamically populating Stash from Matrix field

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Neal Hulme

Posted: 20 October 2011 05:33 AM

I’m trying to mimic the NSM Transplant behaviour demonstrated by Etsur by dynamically populating a stash variable pulled from a custom field with dynamically created variables from a matrix field. I’ve got it working after playing around for a while, and getting my head around parse order again. The only limitation is that I have to do a find and replace so the user can use sensible place holders in the field contents.

Am I missing something that could make this easier? Ideally I would like to be able to use the straight tag per snippets but as you can’t use snippets in snippets it’s not a goer. Is there a way of assigning the values to a global variable type which gets parsed after the snippets? Any thoughts would be gratefully received as I would like to use Stash over NSM Transplant as it has other functionality I use, and of course it’s free which is greatly appreciated, thanks.

The model template looks something like this where {images} is a P&T Matrix field and the content field contains placeholders for the images that look like {image_1}

{embed="default/model"}

{exp:channel:entries}
 {images}
  {exp:stash:set name="image_{row_count}"}
   <img src="{image_file:url}" width="{image_file:width}" height="{image_file:height}" alt="{image_title}">
  {/exp:stash:set}
 {/images}
 {exp:stash:set name="content" type="snippet"}
  {exp:low_replace find="/{image_[0-9]}/" replace="{exp:stash:get name='image_$1'}" regex="yes"}{content}{/exp:low_replace}
 {/exp:stash:set}
{/exp:channel:entries} 

The view template simply outputs the {content} variable

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html lang="en" dir="ltr" class="no-js">

<head>
 <meta charset="UTF-8">
 <title>Page Title</title>
</head>

<body>
 {content}
</body>

</html> 

Mark Croxton

Posted: 20 October 2011 10:52 AM

# 1

Developer

Hi Neal

please try adding parse=“inward” to the channel entries tag, and then add parse_vars=“yes” to second stash tag.

That should do the trick, but if not there is another way to do it so let me know!

Neal Hulme

Posted: 20 October 2011 04:10 PM

# 2

Hi Mark,

thanks for getting back to me although I think I am more confused now…

The code for the ‘model’ template is below with the two modifications you suggested, parse=“inward’ on the Channel Entries and parse_vars=“yes” on the second Stash tag. I have also removed the Low Replace tag as I assume this is not required. Testing this with a dummy entry that has three rows in the Matrix field {page_images} and the {page_body} field containing a string with three arbitrary placeholder strings {image_1}, {image_2} and {image_3} I simply get the string outputted through the view template. If I add the Low Replace back in which replaces /{image_([0-9])}/ with {exp:stash:get name=“image_$1”} in the {page_body} field it works and outputs the three image elements on the page.

Have I missed something? I was also a little confused as I could find no mention of the ‘parse_vars’ parameter so tried it anyway, and ‘parse_tags’, with no luck.

You also mentioned another way to do this?

{embed="views/default"}

{exp:channel:entries
 channel="pages"
 disable="categories|category_fields|member_data|pagination"
 dynamic="no"
 parse="inward"
}
 {page_images}
  {exp:stash:set name="image_{row_count}"}
   <img src="{image_file:url}" width="{image_file:width}" height="{image_file:height}" alt="{image_caption}">
  {/exp:stash:set}
 {/page_images}
 {exp:stash:set name="content" type="snippet" parse_vars="yes"}{page_body}{/exp:stash:set}
{/exp:channel:entries} 

Mark Croxton

Posted: 26 October 2011 09:42 AM

# 3

Developer

Sorry, parse_vars is in the latest version of Stash on the dev branch. You can download it here:

https://github.com/croxton/Stash/tree/dev/third_party/stash

Getting back to your problem, this is the alternative approach:

viewModel

{embed="views/default"}

{exp:channel:entries
 channel="pages"
 disable="categories|category_fields|member_data|pagination"
 dynamic="no"
 parse="inward"
}
 {page_images}
  {exp:stash:set name="image_{row_count}" type="snippet"}
   <img src="{image_file:url}" width="{image_file:width}" height="{image_file:height}" alt="{image_caption}">
  {/exp:stash:set}
 {/page_images}
 {exp:stash:set name="content"}{page_body}{/exp:stash:set}
{/exp:channel:entries} 

view

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html lang="en" dir="ltr" class="no-js">

<head>
 <meta charset="UTF-8">
 <title>Page Title</title>
</head>

<body>
 {exp:stash:get name="content" parse_vars="yes"}
</body>

</html> 