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Written based on hacking away at a custom event which aimed to take its data solely from entry data and $_SESSION values, and not posted values (which I understand may have been open to DOM hacking and required "ugly" frontend hidden fields).

Things I think I've learned

Use Xpath in PHP when possible

I was traversing the XMLElement object generated by SymQL (or Entry object generated by EntryManager) with the object's methods and foreach to get values, which seems to require a lot of effort and code:

php

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//  fetch($entry_id=NULL, $section_id=NULL, $limit=NULL, $start=NULL, $where=NULL, $joins=NULL, $group=false, $buildentries=true, $element_names=null){
		  	$em = new EntryManager();

		    $entries = $em->fetch(null, 83, 10, 0, false, false, false, true, array ('title'));

		  //  	echo "<h2>Products</h2><pre>";print_r($entries);echo "</pre>";die;
        	$product_em = new EntryManager();
		$product_fields = array ('title');
		$products = $product_em->fetch(

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public function execute(array &$param_pool = null)
	{

		$ordercolumn = $this->__processParametersInString('$url-order.1.column', $this->_env, false);

		switch ($ordercolumn) {
		case "0":
			$this->dsParamSORT = "name";
 break;