I am quite new to Drupal so this question may be very simple or basic. I created a module and I've extracted list of a custom content type for each user by using EntityFieldQuery and then I used entity_load to make the results ready. the question is how should I use the $archive_items in my template ?!?
<?php $archive_items = entity_load('node', $archive_items_nids); ?>
Your function will give an array of entity objects, indexed by their entity_id's. So:
foreach ($archive_items as $entity_id => $archive_entity) { /* Process each entity */ } will allow you to iterate through the entities and to do what you need to each. Beyond that, we will have to know what result you are trying to achieve.
Assuming that you want to render your collection of nodes, you would use node_view_multiple(). It's worth noting there's a node specific version of entity_load(), node_load_multiple().
With that in mind I imagine you're looking for code like the following:
$efq = new EntityFieldQuery(); $efq->entityCondition('entity_type', 'node'); // etc... $results = $efq->execute(); $nodes = node_load_multiple(array_keys($results['node'])); $views = node_view_multiple($nodes); $output = drupal_render($views); $output will contain a list of teasers representing the nodes found in the EFQ.
It's also worth noting this kind of logic should not happen in the template file, but rather in a preprocess function. This will prevent potential problems with caching later on, and is just good programming practice all-round.
