Loops in patTemplate

[romina]

Hi...  nobody seems to have posted since my last post!

I was able to make conditionals work 

However now I'm having problems making loops work! I have tried different solutions that I have found on this forum but none worked. Perhaps doing something wrong, but I can't seem to figure out what exactly that is.

My php code returns the following loop:

Title (1)
    Subtitle (1)
        Something1
        Something2
        ...
    Subtitle (2)
        Something3
        ...
    ...
Title (2)
    etc.

I created a template, that after reading some urls said that it would automatically loop, using the following code

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Template:
<mos:tmpl name="rows">
	<u>{items_Title}</u>
</mos:tmpl>

php template call:
// returns 2 $row
foreach ($rows as $row) {
          $title = $row->title;
          $tmpl->addObject( 'rows', $rows, 'items_');
}

But that just prints

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{items_Title}  {items_Title}

When it should print

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Title1 Title2

Any ideas? Thank you in advance for all your help. I'm quite frustrated... been working with this really simple loop for hours

[masterchief]

One level deep is doable (your Subtitles).  Two levels deep (your Somethings) is insanely difficult.  I've reverted back to back to the php way of doing it for this very reason.  I love the pat syntax but the difficulties of loops was getting too restrictive for me.

[romina]

Gosh

Terrible news!

This question may sound silly but... what do you mean with 'the php way of doing it'? Do you think I should embed html in the php? 

[masterchief]

Yeah, I tried and tried, but some sites just got too hard.  Don't get me wrong it's a good system, but it has brick walls.

Ok, the php way is just that, using php template files.  Have a look at the 1.5 Beta in, say, one of the weblinks views.  We are using php layouts now in a similar way to what Savant does.

[Alejo]

I created a template, that after reading some urls said that it would automatically loop, using the following code

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Template:
<mos:tmpl name="rows">
	<u>{items_Title}</u>
</mos:tmpl>

php template call:
// returns 2 $row
foreach ($rows as $row) {
          $title = $row->title;
          $tmpl->addObject( 'rows', $rows, 'items_');
}

But that just prints

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{items_Title}  {items_Title}

When it should print

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Title1 Title2

Any ideas? Thank you in advance for all your help. I'm quite frustrated... been working with this really simple loop for hours

If $rows contains all your rows then try the php code without the foreach statement:

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        $tmpl->addObject( 'rows', $rows, 'items_');

If you need to loop through the $rows, then try this:

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foreach ($rows as $row) {
          $title = $row->title;
          $tmpl->addObject( 'rows', $row, 'items_');
          $tmpl->parseTemplate('rows','a');
}