Displaying Attributes on a Page

Permalink August 01, 2011 at 5:10 PM

So here's my issue:

I've created a Page Type called "Student".

I've given "Student" a Custom Attribute called "Student Name".

I create a new page based on the "Student" Page Type, and give it "Joe P" as the value for the "Student Name" Custom Attribute.

The crucial step that I'm missing:

How do I make all instances of "Student" pages display their value of "Student Name" on the page without having to add a content block myself. IE - if I were to edit the "Student Name" Custom Attribute, it would update the page to match the new value, again without having to In-Context-Edit the page.

In other words, I want all instances the "Student" Page Type to have a Block that will display its "Student Name" Custom Attribute just by virtue of adding the page to the Sitemap.

This seems like a very basic and common thing to do, I'm just missing the tutorial / documentation page that tells me how to do it! :-) Thanks for your help!

beebs93 replied on Aug 1, 2011 at 7:41 pm Permalink Reply

In your "Student" page template (I assume student.php) you would put the following where you want the attribute value to be displayed:

$strStudentName = $c->getAttribute('student_name_attribute_handle_here');
if(is_string($strStudentName) && strlen($strStudentName) > 0){
   echo '<p>Student Name: ' . $strStudentName . '</p>';
}

This is just a simple example of outputting custom attribute values for a particular page. It will NOT output it to a particular block, rather, it will be hardcoded into the template. Each page you make with the "Student" page type will output the value of its "Student Name" attribute.