Passing variables between templates

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martin k	Friday 14 October 2005 6:26:46 am Hello, I'm wondering how I can pass variables between templates. More speficially, I need to show the logged in username on top of the page regardless of which page the user is looking at. Right now I use the following code in pagelayout.tpl, but it works only in this template: {def $user=fetch( 'user', 'current_user' )} User: {$user.contentobject.name} <br /> I would like to show this variable in a template named top.tpl (part of static content). But the code above doesn't return any value. I think the solution is to pass the variable along, but how? This is EZ publish 3.6.1 btw. Thanks for any suggestions.
Nathan Kelly	Friday 14 October 2005 6:40:14 am Hi, I'm not sure if this will help I havn't had to deal with this problem yet but it may be worth a look. http://ez.no/community/forum/developer/passing_variables_parameters_between_templates Hope it helps. Cheers! Pardon me while I burst into flames...
martin k	Friday 14 October 2005 9:52:39 am I've looked at forum reply you linked to earlier to day. Unfortunately this doesn't solve my problem. I don't want to pass any variables in the URL. I've tried setting a <input type="hidden value="myvar"> field, but this variable isn't passed along if you don't have a submit button in the form. I guess if I don't find any solution, I'll just merge my top.tpl with pagelayout.tpl and don't bother with passing variables.
Konrad Mazurkiewicz	Friday 14 October 2005 12:54:16 pm Hi, if you want to show username on every page, you may place this piece with fetch on the top of pagelayout.pl. Next, use cache-block with apriopriate key around this to properly cache. This should be enough. Konrad
martin k	Tuesday 18 October 2005 2:51:51 am Thank you for your suggestions :) We went the easy way and just merged our top.tpl template into pagelayout.tpl. But I never knew a cache-block could be used to pass variables. I'll have this in mind for a later occasion.
Mazen Alsibai	Wednesday 19 October 2005 5:11:03 am Hi: the solution is a little difficult, you have to fetch the current user in php file(index.php)and then put it in session variable that is available all the time i wish that help
Marko Žmak	Wednesday 19 October 2005 3:11:59 pm Just one question. How can you put some value into session variable in eZ? -- Nothing is impossible. Not if you can imagine it! Hubert Farnsworth