Can I use Stash inside Third Party Module Tags?

Question

in the examples of Stash and every other similar plugin I always see the variables being set inside the channel:entries tag. But what if I need to set a tag inside the tag of another module? Like for example Solspace's Rating module? Have a look at the code below:

Here I'm trying to set a Stash variable...

{exp:rating:stats}
  {exp:stash:set name="rating"}{overall_rating}{/exp:stash:set}
{/exp:rating:stats}

Here I attempting to output it...

{exp:stash:get name="rating"}

But this isn't working with Stash or the String plugin which I also tried.

It seems like I can only set variables inside the channel:entries tag. Is this true? Is there no way to store variables for later use inside third party module tags such as Solspace's Ratings?

Answer 1

Yes anything's possible when you get your head around parse order. There are several different ways of doing this, but generally I find it easiest to always put Stash on the outside of other tags (regardless of whether they're third party or not):

{exp:stash:set parse_tags="yes"}
    {exp:rating:stats}
        {stash:rating}{overall_rating}{/stash:rating}
        {stash:something-else}{another_thing}{/stash:something-else}
    {/exp:rating:stats}
{/exp:stash:set}

Rating: {exp:stash:get name="rating"}