Site Variables

Lance

I created a site variable in the admin with the name of side_stats and an empty scope. I'm trying to pull that value through to a block (view/_blocks) with:

<?=fuel_var('side_stats', 'kaw kaw')?>

But I'm getting 'kaw kaw' instead. Am I missing something? Do I need something in views/_variables to make it work?

Value is stored in the DB okay..

http://www.getfuelcms.com/user_guide/modules/fuel/site_variables

Is pretty thin on info.

And a tiny catch: ({fuel_var('varname')} = mismatched braces on that UG page.

admin

Is the page being rendered by a controller you created, or are you just using a view file that maps to a URI?

Thanks for the UG catch... I'll update.

Lance

Mapped view file. But a block. I've created no controllers for this.

So in a 'home' view I use:
<?php $this->load->view('_blocks/side_bar')?>

To load a block. To use the site variable In the side_bar I have:

<?=fuel_var('side_stats', 'kaw kaw')?>

admin

What's your $config['fuel_mode'] in your fuel/application/MY_fuel.php set to?

Lance

Its set to auto

admin

Hmm... I'm not able to replicate the issue yet. What happens on a raw download of FUEL, set up with your existing db information and merging in the variable like above on say the header block that comes with the FUEL download?

Lance

Ugh, works now.. Can only assume it was a cache issue. Pages aren't cached in the admin and I also logged out just to check that.

Thanks for checking and sorry to waste your time!

Lance

When you asked about it being in a controller I wrote, why is that? I have the same bar on a page that is using the blog module and on that page it doesn't work. It's now fine on all the admin-made pages.

admin

Ahh... the blog module handles it's variables a little differently in it's controllers. You may be able to get that to work in the blog if you change the following line in the fuel/modules/blog/libraries/Base_blog_controller.php line 34 from:
$_vars = $this->fuel_pagevars->view_variables(uri_path(), 'blog');

TO something like:

$_vars = $this->fuel_pagevars->retrieve(uri_path());

Let me know if that works.

Lance

Boomer! Works fine.

admin

OK... I'll need to do some more local testing and then may add that to GitHub