Relationships with Channel Videos

Question

I am needing to obtain a count for every video being parsed through Channel Videos via relationship entries. I want to continue using a grid with my layout so the content can scale like the rest of the site.

I have a channel of entries which is nothing more than a DevDemon Channel Entries field which contains groups of videos. Each of these groups can be added to other channel entries as modules. So you may have a Lesson Module with 5 groups of videos and each video group could have 1-?? videos in it.

I was using an embed for the relationship loop, but I was loosing count each time and starting over at 0/1, so I started trying to calculate the numbers via raw PHP. I am completely open as a better way of doing this because I am banging my head against the desk. lol

Here was my latest attempt:

<ul class="classes available-classes clearfix"> 
    <?php $count = 0; ?>
    {exp:channel:entries 
        disable="category_fields|member_data|pagination" 
        category="1" 
        channel="program_module" 
        status="open" 
        show_future_entries="no" 
        show_expired="no" 
    }
        {video_groups_to_include}
            {exp:channel_videos:videos 
                status="open" 
                entry_id="{video_groups_to_include:entry_id}" 
            }
                <?php 
                    $count++;
                    echo $count;
                    if( $count==1 || $count==5 || $count==9 || $count==13 || $count==17 || $count==21 || $count==25 || $count=29 || $count==33 || $count==37 || $count==41 || $count==45 || $count=49 || $count==53 || $count==57 || $count==61 || $count==65 || $count==69 ){
                        echo "<li class='row-fluid'><ul><li data-id='id-{video:id}' class='span3 {video_groups_to_include:categories}{category_name}{/video_groups_to_include:categories}'>";
                    }else{
                        echo "<li data-id='id-{video:id}' class='span3 {video_groups_to_include:categories}{category_name}{/video_groups_to_include:categories}'>";
                    }
                ?>
                    <a href="{site_url}lessons/{video_groups_to_include:categories}{category_url_title}{/video_groups_to_include:categories}">
                        <em class="overflow-hidden"><img src="{video:img_url_hd}" alt="{video:title}" /></em>
                        <span>
                            <strong>{video:title}</strong>
                            <i>{video:description}</i>
                        </span>
                    </a>
                <?php 
                    $count++;
                    if( $count==4 || $count==8 || $count==12 || $count==16 || $count==20 || $count==24 || $count==28 || $count=32 || $count==36 || $count==40 || $count==44 || $count==48 || $count=52 || $count==56 || $count==60 || $count==64 || $count==68 || $count==72 ){
                        echo "</li><ul></li>";
                    }else{
                        echo "</li>";
                    }
                ?>
                </li>
            {/exp:channel_videos:videos}
        {/video_groups_to_include}
    {/exp:channel:entries}
</ul>

Hopefully it's clear what I am trying to achieve. Basically, I need a new row after ever 4th video parsed. (4 column layout)

Answer 1

You can easily do this with the switch variable. Have a look at my answer on this posting. The answer refers to matrix, but really it should be applicable in any looping tag pair that support the switch variable, and I think, though it's not mentioned in the documentation, it should be supported in Channel Videos.

Answer 2

Ok, so for this one, I might have been able to use stash to store the videos and then dump them out, but I felt it was easier to just enable PHP on output for this template and use the following:

<?php $counter = 0; ?>
<ul class="portfolio recent-work clearfix">
    <li>
        <ul class="row-fluid">
            {exp:channel:entries 
                disable="category_fields|member_data|pagination" 
                category="1" 
                channel="program_module" 
                status="open" 
                show_future_entries="no" 
                show_expired="no" 
            }
                {video_groups_to_include}
                    {exp:channel_videos:videos 
                        status="open" 
                        entry_id="{video_groups_to_include:entry_id}" 
                    }
                        <?php $counter++; ?>
                        <li data-id='id-{video:id}' class='span3 {video_groups_to_include:categories}{category_name}{/video_groups_to_include:categories}' style="margin-right: 0;">
                            <a href="">
                                <em class="overflow-hidden"><img src="{video:img_url_hd}" alt="{video:title}" style="width: 100%;" /></em>
                                <span>
                                    <strong>{video:title}</strong>
                                    <i>{video:description}</i>
                                </span>
                            </a>
                        <?php if (($counter % 4) == 0) { echo "</li></ul><ul class='row-fluid'>"; } else { echo "</li>"; } ?>
                    {/exp:channel_videos:videos}
                {/video_groups_to_include}
            {/exp:channel:entries}
        </ul>
    </li>
</ul>

Hopefully this helps someone down the road...