How to set and read a session variable?

[Andrew Prior]

I have the following template working:

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{content assign='freddy'}
{mobile}{capture assign='mobiletemp'}{$mobile_detect}{/capture} {* UDT from Goran Ilic *}
{if $mobiletemp}
{cms_stylesheet name='mobile'}
{$freddy}
{else}
{cms_stylesheet name='full'}
{various menus and columns etc}
{$freddy}
{/if}

You can see this at http://onemansweb.org/mobs

What I would like to do is to add a link or button in the content block I have assigned as 'freddy' which would assign a session variable I would call 'forcefullsite'. Then I could use the following logic.

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{content assign='freddy' NOW INCLUDES THE BUTTON}

{[mock code] if session variable equals forcefullsite [/mockcode]}
    {cms_stylesheet name='full'}
    {various menus and columns etc}
    {$freddy}
{else}
    {mobile}{capture assign='mobiletemp'}{$mobile_detect}     {/capture} {* UDT from Goran Ilic *}
    {if $mobiletemp}
    {cms_stylesheet name='mobile'}
    {$freddy}
{else}
    {cms_stylesheet name='full'}
    {various menus and columns etc}
    {$freddy}
{/if}

This would allow mobile users to force the full site layout. I am retrofitting a couple of very large websites to allow a better mobile experience and this logic would minimise my rewriting task.

Question: Can I set a variable as I propose? Can anyone give me the three or four lines of code I would need? I am already way outside my limited skill level

Many thanks
Andrew Prior

[applejack]

You can either just use a UDT

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setcookie('name_of_cookie','value_of_cookie);
$getcookie = $_COOKIE["name_of_cookie"];
if ($getcookie) {
$smarty->assign('cookieexists', "$getcookie");
}

You can then use the Smarty variable cookieexists in your template

Or use the module CGSimpleSmarty

[calguy1000]

To read session/cookie values

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{$smarty.session.name_of_var}

or

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{$smarty.cookie.name_of_cookie}

to create/write session vars you need CGSimpleSmarty or a UDT
to create/write a cookie you will need a UDT.

[Andrew Prior]

Thankyou both.
I have worked out the syntax to set a session variable, and to read it. I will use

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{session_put var='readerstate' value='forcefull'}

I have also a link in the mobile landing part of the template that will reload the page if clicked. This uses

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<p><a href="{mypage}">Use the full site</a> 

where mypage is a udt from the Tips and Tricks, which I have put at the bottom of this post.

This means that a mobile browser will be sent to a version of the page which also has the link Use the Full Site (using the code from my first post). That link will reload the page if it is clicked.

What I am unable to figure out is this: How do I get this code:

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{session_put var='readerstate' value='forcefull'}

to fire only as the page reloads from the link. If I can do this, I can then test for the presence of readerstate = forcfull.. or not as the page reloads.

Any ideas?


udt to get page URL

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/////// real url
global $gCms;
$urlBASE = "http://".$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'];
if (!empty($_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"]))
$urlBASE .= "?".$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];
if (isset($gCms->config['assume_mod_rewrite']) && ($gCms->config['assume_mod_rewrite']==true)) {
$urls = str_replace("index.php?page=", "", $urlBASE);
$urls = str_replace("index.php", "", $urls);
}else{
$urls = $urlBASE;
}
 echo $urls;