Pass variable from pagelayout

Friday 17 April 2009 3:03:24 am

No, cause modules are executed before pagelayout.
It is possible to pass variables from node/system/override templates to pagelayout by using $persistent_variable, a cache safe variable, where you can put anything but objects (as cache is serialized, and serialization doesn't support complex objects like nodes and content objects).

Use in node/override template:

{set scope=global persistent_variable=hash('node_id_array', array(  $node.node_id, $node.parent_node_id ))}

Read in pagelayout:

{def $extra_menu_node_id = first_set( $module_result.content_info.persistent_variable.node_id_array, 0)}

But, if you use eZ Publish 4.1+(with ezwebin or ezflow), then you can use custom functions for this so it works on system urls as well, use on node/override/system template:

{ezpagedata_set( 'node_id_array', array( $register.node_id, $register.parent_node_id ))}

Optionally: If you want to append something to an array in for instance included templates:

{ezpagedata_append( 'node_id_array', 555 )}

And in pagelayout you can get the variable with $pagedata.persistent_variable.node_id_array

Good luck :)

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