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Pass variables to collections

Is it possible to pass variables into collections?

I have set the variables:

PerchSystem::set_var('citySlug', 'sydney');
PerchSystem::set_var('daySlug', 'monday-1');
perch_collection('Programs', [
    'template' => 'programs.html',
    'category' => array('city/sydney', 'day/monday-1'),
    'sort' => 'time',
    'sort-order' => 'ASC',
]);

And referenced them in the template but they are not outputting:

<a class="button" href="/program/<perch:content id="citySlug" />/<perch:content id="daySlug" />/<perch:content id="slug" type="slug" for="title" />">Read more</a>

Any ideas how I can achieve this?
Brad Hardinge

Brad Hardinge 0 points

  • 7 years ago
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

6 years ago

Yes, that should work fine. What does <perch:showall /> show you?
Brad Hardinge

Brad Hardinge 0 points

6 years ago

The variables were empty. Oddly enough changing the variable names to 'city_slug' as apposed to 'citySlug' made it work...
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

6 years ago

Do they appear in your edit form?
Brad Hardinge

Brad Hardinge 0 points

6 years ago

Drew, they don't now as I made them type="hidden". Maybe something happened and I saved them as empty values and changing the names reset them. Not sure, but everything is working now.