[SOLVED] Getting a variable from an included file to CMSMS

sanderhartveld · Post by **sanderhartveld** » Sat Oct 25, 2014 6:35 pm

Hi,

I have a UDT that looks like this:

include("antwoorden.php");

Inside antwoorden.php I try to define a variable using:

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$smarty->assign('firstname', 'Doug');

The UDT is called inside a content block on a page.
In my page template I am using:

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{$firstname}

But the output is nothing. How can I pass a variable from antwoorden.php to my template?
Thank you.

Sander

Post by **JohnnyB** » Mon Oct 27, 2014 12:58 pm

I think you are missing this to assign to smarty

// send to Smarty
$smarty = cmsms()->GetSmarty();

sanderhartveld · Post by **sanderhartveld** » Mon Oct 27, 2014 6:08 pm

Thank you. This works in CMSMS 1.10.3.
I did see that in the documentation but I did not try because on http://docs.cmsmadesimple.org/tags/user ... ting-a-udt it says

As of CMSMS version 1.11 it is invalid to overwrite the $smarty object that is passed in to the UDT with the global smarty object.
In example in a User Defined Tag this code is invalid and will cause errors:

$smarty = cmsms()->GetSmarty()

Do I need to take this into account when upgrading? Is there also another approach that will continue to work in 1.11?

Also, I want to use the variable in the head of the template before the UDT is called trough the content block. Is that possible? Now it shows nothing.

Post by **JohnnyB** » Mon Oct 27, 2014 7:25 pm

You would need to put your UDT before the <head> if you want to use a var from it early on...

I think it still works with 1.11.x -- I might be wrong so hopefully someone else will confirm or deny that.

As far as 2.0 -- you'll probably need something different. I haven't really done much with it yet, but there's http://www.cmsmadesimple.org/APIDOC2_0/

Rolf · Post by **Rolf** » Tue Oct 28, 2014 8:29 am

Path to the PHP file is correct?

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Wed Oct 29, 2014 12:43 am

JohnnyB wrote:You would need to put your UDT before the <head> if you want to use a var from it early on...

Unless you changed the order of the template processing, the < body> is processed before <head> so the variable should be avaliable.

Jeff

sanderhartveld · Post by **sanderhartveld** » Thu Oct 30, 2014 10:28 am

Thank you all. I found that it actually does work without putting the UDT before the head. Well see later on what happens when I upgrade.

My developer Page on the Forge · Post by **Jo Morg** » Thu Oct 30, 2014 10:31 am

sanderhartveld wrote:Well see later on what happens when I upgrade.

Then you will have to remove: $smarty = cmsms()->GetSmarty(); from the UDT.

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