Hi,

Is it possible to render data stored within a template outside of that template?

Here's an example of what I mean...

I have a template: animals.php
Within that template there are three defined categories: dogs, cats, whales

site.com/animals.php renders a list of all animals
site.com/animals/dogs.php renders a list of all animals in the dogs category etc.

So far, so good, all standard stuff. But here's where I'm stuck:

I have a page pets.php, the url is site.com/pets.php I need this page to render all animals from the dogs and cats categories. Can it be done?

I hope this makes sense, and any help is gratefully received!

[KK]

Hi,

You can display data belonging to any Couch managed template in absolutely any other Couch managed template of your site.

The key here is the 'masterpage' param of <cms:pages>. So, for example, the following code will always show the latest 5 pages from a template named 'blog.php' *regardless* of which template you place it in (e.g. the code could be in 'contact.php' but it will still show pages from 'blog.php')

Code: Select all

<cms:pages masterpage='blog.php' limit='5'>
    ...
</cms:pages>

It is important to use the correct name for the 'masterpage' - if in doubt, you can hover your mouse pointer over the template in admin-panel sidebar and a tooltip will show the correct value.

Hope this helps.

That certainly does help! I knew there would be a simple solution. I'm impressed with Couch because stuff like this is so easy to implement.