Hi there,

I have the following problem.
I have an article with Joomla custom fields in Category A. (Name, E-Mail)

Now I am creating a custom blog layout (custom-blog.php) for Category B. In this blog layout I need to get the data out of the custom fields from the article of category A. I do not need to display the article, but I need to use the data (Name, E-Mail) for creating a custom form.

Is it possible to achieve this with Articles Field or with Articles Anywhere?
Maybe I can use the Articles Field in the XML of my custom blog to select the article? That would be perfect.
But I am also open to use Articles Anywhere in the PHP, if that is giving me the inforamtion I need.

If you need further information, feel free to ask.

Kind regards,
Tanja Vogt

Hi Peter,
thank you for your answer.
I tried to use that in my custom-blog.php:

$ansprechart = '{article id="'.$this->params->get('ansprech_ID').'"}[titel:text] [vorname:text] [nachname:text]##[e-mail:value]{/article}';
$ansprech = explode('##', $ansprechart);
$ansprechmail = explode('@', $ansprech[1]);

But I cannot work with the variables. A war dump for $ansprech is giving me this result, which is correct.
array(2) {
[0]=>
string(60) "Dr. Prof. Max Mustermann"
[1]=>
string(24) ""
}
But $ansprechmail looks like:
array(1) {
[0]=>
string(24) "[e-mail:value]{/article}"
}

And even with $ansprech[0], where the var_dump looked good, I cannot work any further.
Do you have another idea on how to get the values and use them in the php?

Hi Peter,

we are creating a category for job offers which displays a form to apply under each job. In the single article layout I used articles field to select both the location and the contact for this job. The information of both are automatically used to prefill some form fields, e.g. the mail-address and the name the application is send to.

But in the category we also have the possibility to apply initiatively. Therefore I wanted to get the info out of the same articles than I used in the single job article.

But I found a solution. I can use articles field in the category and then I will get the output and can prefill the form with the information.

Thank you very much for your help.