Passing variables between templates

Friday 14 October 2005 6:26:46 am

Hello,

I'm wondering how I can pass variables between templates. More speficially, I need to show the logged in username on top of the page regardless of which page the user is looking at.

Right now I use the following code in pagelayout.tpl, but it works only in this template:

{def $user=fetch( 'user', 'current_user' )}
User:     {$user.contentobject.name} <br />

I would like to show this variable in a template named top.tpl (part of static content). But the code above doesn't return any value.

I think the solution is to pass the variable along, but how? This is EZ publish 3.6.1 btw. Thanks for any suggestions.

Friday 14 October 2005 9:52:39 am

I've looked at forum reply you linked to earlier to day. Unfortunately this doesn't solve my problem. I don't want to pass any variables in the URL. I've tried setting a <input type="hidden value="myvar"> field, but this variable isn't passed along if you don't have a submit button in the form.

I guess if I don't find any solution, I'll just merge my top.tpl with pagelayout.tpl and don't bother with passing variables.

Tuesday 18 October 2005 2:51:51 am

Thank you for your suggestions :) We went the easy way and just merged our top.tpl template into pagelayout.tpl. But I never knew a cache-block could be used to pass variables. I'll have this in mind for a later occasion.

Wednesday 19 October 2005 3:11:59 pm

Just one question. How can you put some value into session variable in eZ?

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