[SOLVED]Cannot access data passed to $vars in theme function

Posted by Shabana on January 7, 2013 at 7:35am

I have got a problem in my template.php file, where I am trying to add data to $vars. I basically have a preprocess function for a view and in it I am trying to pass some extra info to $vars. However, the view is not getting those variables. This is what I have in my template.php file:

<?php
/**
  * Generic preprocess that is still working on D7
  */
function mytheme_preprocess_views_view_fields(&$vars) {
  if (isset($vars['view']->name)) {
    $function = __FUNCTION__ . '__' . $vars['view']->name . '__' . $vars['view']->current_display;
    if (function_exists($function)) {
     $function($vars);
    }
  }
}


/**
 * preprocess variables for the badge owners view
 */
//function mytheme_preprocess_views_view__badge_owners (&$vars) {
function mytheme_preprocess_views_view_fields__badge_owners__page_1(&$vars) {
  $bid = $vars['view']->args[0];

  //Get the badge info
  $badge = db_query("
    SELECT ubb.bid, ubb.weight, ubb.name, ubb.image, ubb.href,
    ubb.unhideable, ubb.fixedweight, ubb.doesnotcounttolimit, ubb.tid
    FROM {user_badges_badges} ubb
    WHERE ubb.bid = :bid", array(
      ':bid' => $bid
  ))->fetchObject();

  $vars['bid'] = $bid;
  $vars['name'] = $badge->name;
  $vars['badge'] = theme('user_badge', array('badge' => $badge));
  $vars['an_extra_variable'] = 'hope this shows up in $vars';

  drupal_set_title(t('Badge: @badge_name', array('@badge_name' => $badge->name)));
}
?>

This is what I have in my views-view--badge-owners.tpl.php file:

<?php
/**
 * Variables available:
 * - $css_name: A css-safe version of the view name.
 * - $header: The view header
 * - $footer: The view footer
 * - $rows: The results of the view query, if any
 * - $empty: The empty text to display if the view is empty
 * - $pager: The pager next/prev links to display, if any
 * - $exposed: Exposed widget form/info to display
 * - $feed_icon: Feed icon to display, if any
 * - $more: A link to view more, if any
 * - $admin_links: A rendered list of administrative links
 * - $admin_links_raw: A list of administrative links suitable for theme('links')
 *
 * @ingroup views_templates
 */
?>
<div class="view view-<?php print $css_name; ?> view-id-<?php print $name; ?> view-display-id-<?php print $display_id; ?> view-dom-id-<?php print $dom_id; ?>">
  <?php if (isset($admin_links)): ?>
    <div class="views-admin-links views-hide">
      <?php print $admin_links; ?>
    </div>
  <?php endif; ?>

  <div class="view-header clearfix">
  <div class="mytheme-badge-owners-badge"><?php print $badge;?></div>
</div>

  <?php if ($exposed): ?>
    <div class="view-filters">
      <?php print $exposed; ?>
    </div>
  <?php endif; ?>

  <?php if ($attachment_before): ?>
    <div class="attachment attachment-before">
      <?php print $attachment_before; ?>
    </div>
  <?php endif; ?>

  <?php if ($rows): ?>
    <div class="view-content">
      <?php print $rows; ?>
    </div>
  <?php elseif ($empty): ?>
    <div class="view-empty">
      <?php print $empty; ?>
    </div>
  <?php endif; ?>

  <?php if ($pager): ?>
    <?php print $pager; ?>
  <?php endif; ?>

  <?php if ($attachment_after): ?>
    <div class="attachment attachment-after">
      <?php print $attachment_after; ?>
    </div>
  <?php endif; ?>

  <?php if ($more): ?>
    <?php print $more; ?>
  <?php endif; ?>

  <?php if ($footer): ?>
    <div class="view-footer">
      <?php print $footer; ?>
    </div>
  <?php endif; ?>

  <?php if ($feed_icon): ?>
    <div class="feed-icon">
      <?php print $feed_icon; ?>
    </div>
  <?php endif; ?>

</div> <?php /* class view */ ?>

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Comments

Make sure you are using theme

Posted by imranweb on January 7, 2013 at 8:09am

Make sure you are using theme name instead of module name for naming the preprocess function in template.php file.
e.g. mymodule_ should be replace by mytheme_

Please check whether control goes into the if condition block.
Otherwise it should work after clearing the cache.

-Imran

Yeah, sorry about naming it

Posted by Shabana on January 7, 2013 at 8:25am

Yeah, sorry about naming it "mymodule", but, it is appropriately named with the theme name.

Could be

Posted by Keyz on January 7, 2013 at 8:14am

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I actually saw those posts

Posted by Shabana on January 7, 2013 at 8:34am

I actually saw those posts and if you see the code that I posted, you can see that I have the workaround function for d7 in template.php to access my specific view. I can actually access $vars in this function:

function mytheme_preprocess_views_view_fields__badge_owners__page_1()

And I can add the data to vars and at the end of the function when I dpm($vars), I see the data added. However, in my views-view--badge-owners.tpl.php file, when I have print $badge or print $an_extra_variable, it doesn't display anything. So, basically, whatever is being added in template.php is not being passed to my tpl function.

Shabana

My question was partially

Posted by Shabana on January 7, 2013 at 9:11am

My question was partially answered here:

http://drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/55049/cannot-access-data-passe...

However, I still am not able to display the title. For some reason, this line isn't working:

drupal_set_title(t('Badge: @badge_name', array('@badge_name' => $badge->name)));

Any thoughts....

Can u try

Posted by imranweb on January 7, 2013 at 9:21am

Can u try this?

$view->display['page_1']->handler->handlers['argument']['type']->options['title'] = 'Your custom page title';

Unfortunately, that didn't

Posted by Shabana on January 7, 2013 at 9:35am

Unfortunately, that didn't work. However, the person that solved the $vars problem also gave me the answer to this title problem. Basically, doing this:

$vars['view']->set_title(t('Badge: @badge_name', array('@badge_name' => $badge->name)));

solved it. Nevertheless, thanks so much for your help. Really appreciate it.