Passing variables/parameters between templates

Wednesday 25 August 2004 7:41:05 am

I've read the docs at http://ez.no/ez_publish/documentation/customization/custom_design/user_specified_parameters, but it won't seem to be working properly.

To set the variables, I have this code:

<form method="post" action={concat('content/action/(privat)/', $:item.object.data_map.privat.data_int)|ezurl}>

This workds perfectly, and outputs

<form method="post" action="/mysite/content/action/(privat)/0">

In the target template, I have the following code:

 {let privat=$view_parameters.privat}
<!-- Privat: "{$view_parameters.privat}" - "{$privat}" -->

This doesn't output any of the variables, only the static HTML. Any pointers here?

Wednesday 25 August 2004 3:23:46 pm

It definitly works with the view content/view.

Thursday 26 August 2004 5:56:05 am

Try to set it as a hidden form variable adn use the ezhttp operator to extract it. Not tried myself, but I think it will work

http://ez.no/ez_publish/documentation/reference/template_operators/data_extraction/ezhttp

hth

-paul

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Wednesday 27 October 2004 4:38:44 pm

Hi there,
I don't know if you solved your problem, but I figured it out.

The main problem is that you are trying to access variable that your browser passes to "/content/action".
Now, take a look at your address bar. You'll see something like '/content/edit/640/1'.
This is because the kernel/content/action.php does a redirect and does not pass the vars in $_POST.

My solution (dirt...) consists in modifying the kernel/content/action.php file:

           if ( $http->hasPostVariable( 'RedirectURIAfterPublish' ) )
            {
                $http->setSessionVariable( 'RedirectURIAfterPublish', $http->postVariable( 'RedirectURIAfterPublish' ) );
            }

        /* Start here @line 111/461 as of eZp 3.4.2 */
            if ( $http->hasPostVariable( 'InternalUse' ) )
            {
                $http->setSessionVariable( 'InternalUse', $http->postVariable( 'InternalUse' ) );
            }

        /* Stop here */

            $module->redirectTo( $module->functionURI( 'edit' ) . '/' . $contentObject->attribute( 'id' ) . '/' . $contentObject->attribute( 'current_version' ) );
            return;

With this trick everything that is inside the "InternalUse" POST var, is stored in the session and you can get it with

ezhttp('InternalUse','session')

.

My form looks like:

<form method="post" action="/content/action">
<input type="hidden" name="NodeID" value="665" /> 
<input type="hidden" name="ClassID" value="43">
<input type="hidden" name="InternalUse[]" value="TEST">
<input type="submit" class="button" name="NewButton" value="ButtonLabel">
</form>

On the next template, using ezhttp('InternalUse','session'), returns an "Array" response, that is right.
You can access the information passed with something like this:

{let InternalUseArray=ezhttp('InternalUse','session')}
{$InternalUse.0} {* if you are not using associative array *}
{$InternalUse.key} {* if you are using associative array in your form *}

Hope this helps.
Ciao,
Roberto