Get Widget Instance Title

Question

I'm creating a template for a widget and would like to echo the widget title in my PHP code. What is the proper way of doing that?

The following does not work:

<?php echo $this->getTitle() ?>

Note: this is part of a custom PHTML file in my theme.

Answer 1

<?php $widgetId =1;
$widget = Mage::getModel('widget/widget_instance')->load($widgetId);
echo $widget->getTitle(); ?>

Try this it's working...

Answer 2

Try this

<?php $widgetId =1;?>
<?php $widget = Mage::getModel('widget/widget_instance')->load($widgetId)); ?>
<?php echo $widget->getTitle()); ?>

Answer 3

Hope this helps Michael, been trying to do the very same thing today. Eventually came up with a (convoluted) way of doing it... i'm not saying its the best, but this is how i got it done:

MySQL Method

SELECT wi.*
FROM widget_instance wi
LEFT JOIN widget_instance_page wip ON wip.instance_id = wi.instance_id
LEFT JOIN widget_instance_page_layout wipl ON wipl.page_id = wip.page_id
LEFT JOIN core_layout_update clu ON clu.layout_update_id = wipl.layout_update_id
WHERE clu.xml LIKE "%<name>unique_id</name><value>UNIQUE_ID</value>%"

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PHP Method

 $unique_id = $this->getUniqueId();

$collection = Mage::getModel('widget/widget_instance')->getCollection();
$collection->getSelect()
  ->join(array("wip" => "widget_instance_page"), "main_table.instance_id = wip.instance_id")
  ->join(array("wipl" => "widget_instance_page_layout"), "wip.page_id = wipl.page_id")
  ->join(array("clu" => "core_layout_update"),"wipl.layout_update_id = clu.layout_update_id")
  ->where("clu.xml LIKE \"%<name>unique_id</name><value>".$unique_id."</value>%\" ");

$widget_id = $collection->getFirstItem()->getId();
$widget_title = Mage::getModel('widget/widget_instance')->load($widget_id)->getTitle();