So I have some entries and one of the fields is for a "hotline". The hotlines are all entries. The CMS part works, I can click the field and choose an entry from the hotlines channel, however this is where I'm stuck.
In my plugin code I cannot seem to figure out a way to actually get the hotline that was chosen.
I have a $center
variable which is an EntryModel
of the entry that has the field for "hotlines" attached to it, with the value set (according to the admin).
$center->hotline
and $center->getFieldValue('hotline')
just return an ElementCriteriaModel
and when I inspect that object inside xdebug there is nothing there that would be usable in getting the actual hotline that's selected. No ID. No object. No nothing. Just information about the field it self, not the value.
What the heck am I doing wrong here? This is so "unintuitive" compared to the rest of craft!