Making variable available in blocks?

alleyhector

So we're still on 0.9.3 in this particular project. We have a constant that we want to be able to use once we have Fuelified a page. So we added it to the globals.php file in _variables like so:

$vars['secure_base_url'] = SECURE_BASE_URL;

This seems to work fine in our other system that uses 1.1 but it seems that the CI instance is not loaded automatically in blocks in 0.9.3? So when I try to use this variable in a block it throws an undefined variable error.

What's the best way to fix this?

admin

You can add the following inside your blocks:
$CI =& get_instance();
Also, is the following in your globals.php variables file?
$vars['CI'] =& get_instance();

alleyhector

The upper code block is what we have in our globals file. I added it directly to the top block itself:

<?php $CI =& get_instance(); ?>

It still isn't working. What am I doing wrong?

admin

How are you accessing the variable in your block? Is it just:
<?=$secure_base_url?>

alleyhector

<a href="<?=url('register', $secure_base_url)?>" class="button large" />Join</a>

admin

Is that variable set if you do the following:
$CI =& get_instance(); <a href="<?=url('register', $CI->get_var('secure_base_url');?>" class="button large" />Join</a>

alleyhector

No it still says there is an undefined variable.

admin

Is this page being rendered by a controller by chance?

alleyhector

That might be the problem. Chatting with a coworker and will get back to you. Thanks for your help so far!