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