Dashboard and multiple queries

[jamesb]

I'm building a dashboard for my app and want to display several select elements from different tabels.

How can I pass multiple results to one page?

Thanks in advance.

[shannah]

The df_display() method takes 2 parameters. The first is an associative array of variables to be sent to the template for use.

e.g.

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$context = array(
    'foo'=> 'The Foo Value',
    'bar' => array('firstname'=>'Steve', 'lastname'=>'Hannah')
);
df_display($context, 'my_template.html');


Then in my template :

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<p>The Foo value is {$foo}.</p>
<p>Hello {$bar.firstname} {$bar.lastname}</p>


This would render like:

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<p>The Foo value is The Foo Value</p>
<p>Hello Steve Hannah</p>


Extrapolating from this, you can see that if you have multiple database results stored in arrays, you could just pass them both to the template context in their own variables.

[jamesb]

Thanks! I knew it must be something simple like that. That is just what I needed.

-james