Entries inside controller

Question

I'm trying to bring back a list of entries from a section. Currently I have the following:

$criteria = craft()->elements->getCriteria(ElementType::Entry);
$criteria->section = 'airports';
$criteria->airportcode = 'BCN';
$airportPrefHotels = craft()->elements->findElements($criteria);

The airport section has a multiple entries field. I want to loop over them.

Is it possible?

Answer 1

You first need to query for the “airport” entry by using the first() method. $airport->myEntriedFieldHandle then returns an ElementCriteriaModel prepared to get all the entries selected in the Entries field.

$criteria = craft()->elements->getCriteria(ElementType::Entry);
$criteria->section = 'airports';
$criteria->airportcode = 'BCN';
$airport = $criteria->first();

if ($airport) {
    $criteria = $airport->prefHotels;
    $airportPrefHotels = $criteria->find();

    if ($airportPrefHotels) {
        // do useful things with $airportPrefHotels
    }
}