This is going to be a short post. Magic Tags are very awe­some, but on the Pods CMS doc­u­men­ta­tion failed to men­tion some­thing very sim­ple yet use­ful. Before any­thing, here’s a quick run down of what Magic Tags are…

Soft­ware Note: Pods CMS 1.7.3 / WP 2.8.4

Doc­u­men­ta­tion: http://pods.uproot.us/codex/magic_tags

What are Magic Tags

From Pods CMS’ doc­u­men­ta­tion: Magic Tags are used exclu­sively within Pod tem­plates to dynam­i­cally pull in col­umn values.

Usage: {@column_name} / {@column_name,display_helper}

In addi­tion to the doc­u­men­ta­tion: {@column_name.another_column_name}

The above method allow you access a dif­fer­ent Pod’s columns when it is a PICK col­umn inside a pod.

Let’s say you have to two pods. The Per­son pod, and Coun­try pod. The Per­son pod has a PICK col­umn of the Coun­try pod to iden­tify the nation­al­ity of that per­son, and you want to list all the peo­ple as: Person’s Name, Coun­try (where you want to access by: http://domain.com/person). So inside the Pod Tem­plates you would have some­thing like this to show:

<p>{@name}, {@country}</p>

The above dis­plays some­thing like below on the Per­son list page (http://domain.com/person):

Mon Lu, United States
John Smith, Canada
Ken Yamamoto, Japan

Now you want to get a bit sophis­ti­cated that you want to link the person’s name to its own detail page, and the coun­try is linked to its own page list­ing all the peo­ple from that coun­try or some­thing like that. Not only that, you want to link the page using its own slugs/permalinks like this: http://domain.com/person/mon_lu and http://domain.com/country/usa – assum­ing you have a col­umn named slug in the Per­son pod, and or abbrv in the Coun­try pod. Before I fig­ured this out, I used a Dis­play Helper to grab the abbrv from the Coun­try pod. But the eas­ier way is the fol­low­ing, assum­ing this is still http://domain.com/person list­ing all the peo­ple where the Coun­try pod is a PICK col­umn inside the Per­son pod:

<p><a href="/person/{@slug}">{@name}</a><a href="/country/{@country.abbrv}">{@country}</a></p>

Sim­ple enough, yeah?

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