Need help with a coding question regarding mod development

[TonyCisseroni]

I've started building my own mod for GL2, it's a basic dice game.

The game works and shows the dice totals in the error / success message. 

And I'm storing the results of each dice in session variables, which I also see is working.

array(2) {
  ["userID"]=>
  string(1) "1"
  ["DICE_GAME"]=>
  array(2) {
    ["diceone"]=>
    int(2)
    ["dicetwo"]=>
    int(4)
  }
}

I'm looking at the BlackJack game MOD code as an example and I see they are reading session variables in the TPL file like this {card} {suite} etc.

I tried this same method using {diceone} and {dicetwo} in my TPL file but it's not showing my result.

Is there any documentation on the templating or does someone know what I'm missing here?

<div class="dice">dice one: {diceone} dice two: {dicetwo}</div>

 

Edited January 26, 2020 by TonyCisseroni

[KyleMassacre]

What does your method look like? Preferably where you are “building” your element to the page

[TonyCisseroni]

44 minutes ago, KyleMassacre said:

What does your method look like? Preferably where you are “building” your element to the page

I see, building the element appears to be the part I was missing. I will look into that a little further. 😊

[Dave]

4 hours ago, TonyCisseroni said:

I see, building the element appears to be the part I was missing. I will look into that a little further. 😊

You’ll need to pass these from your controller into your view. This’ll be when you call the render function in the inc.php file, the {var} are actually just variables as part of the template system.

Im on a plane so can’t be more helpful but I’ll post some code when I can. 

So you’re basically wanting to pass your data to the template in these types of calls:

            $this->html .= $this->page->buildElement('theftHolder', array(
                "theft" => $theftArray
            ));

 

[TonyCisseroni]

3 minutes ago, Dave said:

You’ll need to pass these from your controller into your view. This’ll be when you call the render function in the inc.php file, the {var} are actually just variables as part of the template system.

Im on a plane so can’t be more helpful but I’ll post some code when I can. 

Hi Dave, I'm starting to get the hang of it. 👍 I'm able to pass the variables from the controller to the view and they are now appearing. 

Now I have a bug with everything being repeated twice, it's probably something small I'm overlooking.

 

[Dave]

That’s awesome! You’re probably appending to $this->html twice when you may mean to within a conditional 🙂