MySql fields to Placeholders

  • Resolved jakat

    (@jakat)


    12 years, 3 months ago

    Might come out as a really stupid question, but I’ll shoot anyway… Is there a way to configure a [+placeholder+] to display elements from another table in the WP database. Namely, I am using ai1ec to present events. It stores event dates in its own table (under ‘start’) and it would be great if I could display it in a custom post widget using a placeholder. Possible? Difficult?

    https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/custom-content-type-manager/

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  • Plugin Contributor fireproofsocks

    (@fireproofsocks)

    The placeholder approach is just find/replace stuff. So the question confuses me — how are you retrieving the data? If you’re using PHP in your templates, do whatever you want — print_r is your friend. If you’re using a shortcode (e.g. Summarize Posts: https://code.google.com/p/wordpress-custom-content-type-manager/wiki/summarize_posts_shortcode) then you are only querying data in the wp_posts table, not in a custom table. I don’t think it does you much good here, but generally the answer is “yes, you can use the CCTM::parse() function to find and replace any placeholders with values contained in a corresponding associative array.”

    Thread Starter jakat

    (@jakat)

    Thanks I will follow your advices although I have already figured a workaround to this issue.

    Plugin Contributor fireproofsocks

    (@fireproofsocks)

    Glad you figured a workaround — sorry I did not fully grasp the problem. You may want to look at my PHP-Snippets plugin: https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/php-snippets/

    It lets you put PHP into your posts and pages via shortcodes … maybe you can create the PHP code you need using that.

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