get_related_items sometimes returns an Array

[gerard-kanters]

In some views the link "View all %s related items" sometimes shows "View all Array related items "instead of the number.

[propertunist]

oh ok, i haven't seen that here. is there any particular pattern to this?
e.g. does this occur regardless of how many related items there are?

the line in the code that outputs that link is:

                  echo elgg_view('output/url', array(
                        'href' => $elgg_path . 'related/' . $vars['entity']->guid,
                        'text' => elgg_echo('related-items:view-all', array($total_related_items)),
                        'is_trusted' => true,));

i am not aware of why the array would be treated as an array variable instead of using it's contents by elgg_echo. do you know?

[gerard-kanters]

The pattern is yet unclear. I just did a shallow research and total_related_items uses get_related_items which has the option to count. I think that that option is not always used for all subtypes.

Maybe use something like $count = count(elgg_get_entities_from_metadata($options). but I have not tested that.

[propertunist]

i looked through the functions being used and i am not detecting any reason as to why count would not apply to particular sub-types. why do you think that this may be the case?

i think the issue is more likely to be due to some type of type mis-match within my code, though i am not clear on where yet.

[gerard-kanters]

You are right that count should be applied to all subtypes. It was a guess, because a lot of functions were called and maybe I overlooked one.