Carma retrieve sections

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carma_retrieve_sections

  • Purpose: Retrieve section data for linking.
  • Usage: {carma_retrieve_sections type="child"}
  • Required: none
  • Optional: start, type, assign
  • Templates Used: none

Parameters

(Required parameters in bold)

Parameter Description Possible Values Default Value Example
start Start at this section ID Any valid section I.D. Current section start="123"
type What info to retrieve child, children, same, parent, path (see Notes section below) None. type="child"
order Put the returned sections in this order (Only for child, children, same, parent) active, caption, name name order="active"
assign Name of the Smarty variable that stores the output Any valid Smarty variable name carma_retrieve_sections assign="my_var"
live_content Only display sections with live content 1 None. Displays all sections live_content="1"

Description

This function retrieves the requested sections and stores them into the variable set in assign. The structure of the data retrieved depends on the type setting:

  • current / child / same / parent: simply an array. key secid, value is all the section data.
  • children: 2-dimensional array. First key is the parentid, second key is the actual secid, value is the section data. Value also has a special entry called children which is a 1-dimensional array with all children under this parent, key is secid, value is section data (which will have children too!)

There are 2 logical orders you might want to use: name - ordering by the name of the section, ascending; last_update DESC - ordering by when the section was last updated, descending order.

Notes

The following list describes options for the type parameter:

  • current: retrieves only the current section or the section referenced by the start parameter
  • child: retrieves only the sections below start
  • children: retrieves the sections below start and all the sections below those
  • same: retrieves only sections with the same parent as start
  • parent: retrieves only sections on start's parent level
  • path: retrieves the path from 0 to start