Finding _variables

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• NeoArc

  June 2011 edited 8:25PM

  Hmm, I think you can use Page variables
  
  http://www.getfuelcms.com/user_guide/general/opt-in-controllers
• admin

  June 2011 edited 8:25PM

  NeoArc is correct. FUEL only looks one URI segment (the controller segment level) deep for the _variables files and does not look in subdirectories. However, in your _variables/view.php file you can add a $pages variable right below your $vars variable that contains an array of variables to apply to a page. The key value is the pages URI path:$pages['subdir/view'] = array('my_js' => 'my_js_value');
  You can also use regular expression just like routes to map variables. Below is an example of mapping variables to the page with the URI 'subdir/view' and any child pages: $pages['subdir/view$|subdir/views/:any'] = array('my_js' => 'my_js_value');
• EcotypeS

  June 2011 edited June 2011

  Thank you.
  
  The $pages solutions are worth my knowing about for the future, but they don't actually seem to solve my current issue -- the need to create the variable content using page specific information and the fact that that content is complex, and requires accessing a database table to create it.
  
  Unless there is some better way to do it, I created a $var['inline-js'] that is echoed in my header block (which is used by many pages). This javascript has to be between the head tags. I have $var['inline-js'] set up to be empty unless I happen to need to use it so that the js only gets created when I need it. I am putting all of the logic to create $var['inline-js'], including use of a model, into the _variables/view.php file.
  
  The need to get the javscript into the head and having to create it dynamically seemed to either fit either actually creating a page controller and building $var['inline-js'] there, building it in a rather massive script embedded in the top of my view.php file, or finding somewhere else that I could do it before the html page actually gets built. Other than the "one URI segment deep issue", the _variables/view.php file is letting me do it without having the top of the view.php file be cluttered with logic (I have a non-php html creator working with me, the closer the view.php file is to pure html the better).
  
  Unless there is some big flaw in this logic, I'm thinking that since there aren't too many of these pages, I just use the directory structure that works instead of trying to make that structure mimic my nav structure.
• admin

  June 2011 edited 8:25PM

  That should work too... and like you mentioned, you can always use a normal CI controller if you want to.
• EcotypeS

  June 2011 edited 8:25PM

  An asset for future release might be letting the _variables directory have subdirectories that track same-named subdirectories in the views directory.
  
  Thanks -- I'm enjoying working with the program
• admin

  June 2011 edited 8:25PM

  Noted.