Carma get extended

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Applies to CARMA Version 1.0.12 or greater

Aliases: carma_get_extended_data, carma_extended, carma_extended_data

• Purpose: get extended data for a content set, picture, or video clip
• Usage: {carma_extended galid=1}
• Required parameters: galid
• Optional parameters: file, var, type (required for videos)
• Default Templates Used: none
• Variables created: $carma_extended

Parameters

(Required parameters in bold)

Parameter	Description	Possible Values	Default Value	Example
galid	Display this gallery's extended data	Any valid gallery number	None. You must provide a valid gallery number	galid="123"
actorid	Get extended data from this actor	The numeric I.D. of the actor to get extended data from	None.	actorid="123"
file	The file to get data from	numeric id or file name	None.	file="123"
type	Type of content to get (note: type must be set if galid is a video.)	Any valid content type	None.	type=gal
var	Smarty variable to assign the data to	Any valid Smarty variable name	carma_extended	var="my_var"

You must set either galid or actorid.

Description

Retrieve Extended Data from a content set, a single picture, a single clip, or an actor. The extended data stored is parsed for XML and both the raw data and the parsed XML can be accessed using the following variables created:

• $carma_extended.raw - raw data
• $carma_extended.parsed - XML parsed data

$carma_extended.parsed is the root of the XML data. Each root-tag is an item of that array. XML allows you to have multiple tags with the same name for the same parent, so each tag name points to an array. The parent arrays items are each child tag name in the order they are added. To access attributes of each item, use _attrib and to access cdata of each item, use _cdata. Each item can of course also have child-tags.

For example, the following XML tree,

<data>
<title>The Title</title>
<items>
<item name="test">Foo</item>
<item name="another test">Bar</item>
</items>
</data>

creates the following array structure,

$carma_extended.parsed.DATA[0].TITLE[0]._cdata - "The Title"
$carma_extended.parsed.DATA[0].ITEMS[0].ITEM[1]._attrib.name - "another test"
$carma_extended.parsed.DATA[0].ITEMS[0].ITEM[0]._cdata - "Foo"