while() difficulties

[Furutsuzeru]

I've been desperately trying to use a while() loop while using some mock-up "template" system in order to separate my coding from the templating, and it's not going well. Instead of displaying the contents that I ask of inside the loop, it treats the variables as NULL. Here is my coding example:

I'd like to indent properly, but I sadly cannot at some points because I'm grabbing fragments that are vital only.

while() loop

while ($sub_list = mysql_fetch_assoc($list))
{
$system->templates->load('submission/submission_list');
}

All that load() function does is include the file. The file that has the actual contents now is:

submission_list

<?
/*
@title: Submission List
@description: Lists the Submissions.
*/
echo '
<tr>
<a href="'.$sub_list['category'].'/'.$sub_list['alias'].'/">
<img src="'.$sub_list['thumbnail'].'" alt="" />
<br />
'.$sub_list['title'].'</a></td>
<td><a href="/forums/member.php?uid='.$sub_list['author'].'">'.$author['username'].'</a></td>
<td><a href="'.$category['cat_alias'].'">'.$category['cat_title'].'</a></td>
<td>'.$sub_list['version'].'</td>
<td>'.$views.'</td>
<td>'.$downloads.'</td>
<td>'.$installs.'</td>
</tr>';
?>

Yes, I have even attempted to use globals, but not even that works correctly with while() loops. Ignore any variables that are not $sub_list by the way.

If you need more information, I'd be glad to provide more.

[edited by: Furutsuzeru at 7:47 pm (utc) on Sep. 13, 2008]

[MattAU]

I would say first things first... Try this and see what you get:

while ($sub_list = mysql_fetch_assoc($list))
{
print_r($sub_list);
//$system->templates->load('submission/submission_list');
}

It may be the case that you're getting null values back from the database.

[tfk11]

if you want the $sub list variable to be available within the load() function you'll have to pass it.

$system->templates->load('submission/submission_list', $sub_list)

[Furutsuzeru]

I've already verified that these values are not null, MattAU, since I have tried this method.

tfk11, thank you. It seems that passing the variable did work (with a little bit of extra work and changing of variables to all be $data instead, for a little more consistent format).