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Is it possible to change the group id of a variable group?

Luke David 19 Feb 2014 23:12 question, complete

I know you can change the order of variables within a group, and you can reorder the groups themselves, but doing so doesn't seem to change the id order. I'm looking for this functionality to affect parse order.

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  1. Low 20 Feb 2014 08:05

    There isn't a way to change the group ID in LV, except if you manipulate the DB manually.

    But if you can live with a small hack, you can achieve what you want.

    Open up ext.low_variables.php and look up line 317. That's the query to get all early parsed vars. There are two lines commented out: 320 and 323. Uncomment those lines, and now the vars will be parsed, ordered by the group order, then var order.

    The reason it's commented out, is that I found the query to be slower when enabled. So use at your own discretion.

  2. Luke David 20 Feb 2014 14:58

    Thanks for the tip! Low Variables has changed the way I look at building an EE site. Thanks for that!