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CODENIC
Posted: 31 July 2008 12:46 AM   [ Ignore ]  
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Hi to everyone !
I’m a novice and I’m trying to understand how EE works.

I’ve created this Global Variable (in Templates) named {ud_copyright}:

© Copyright {current_time format=”%Y”} - All rights reserved

Then I use my Variable in the footer :
<p>{ud_copyright}</p>

Doesn’t work {current_time format=”%Y”}, the result is :
© Copyright {current_time format=”%Y”} - All rights reserved.

Why, where I’m wrong ?

Excuse me for this stupid question and many thanks to everyone.
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Sean C. Smith
Posted: 31 July 2008 01:22 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]  
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The docs have the answer
You can’t use an EE tag inside a user defined global variable.

User-defined global variables are not run through the template engine, so you cannot place EE Tags, PHP, or variables inside them.  Also note that Global Variables are one of the last things parsed in your Templates. This means that you cannot use a Global Variable as the value for an EE Tag parameter.

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PXLated
Posted: 31 July 2008 01:23 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]  
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Could be wrong but I don’t think you can embed one global within another.
You could instead use a template with the copyright text and the time global and embed that template. I’m pretty sure that would work.

Edit-Add: Sean had the definitive answer. The template idea would work though.
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CODENIC
Posted: 31 July 2008 01:39 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]  
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Many thanks to Sean C. Smith and PXLated !

The next time I’ll be more careful.

Thanks.
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CODENIC
Posted: 31 July 2008 02:52 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 4 ]  
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PXLated - 31 July 2008 01:23 AM

Could be wrong but I don’t think you can embed one global within another.
You could instead use a template with the copyright text and the time global and embed that template. I’m pretty sure that would work.

Edit-Add: Sean had the definitive answer. The template idea would work though.

...Maybe I’m really stupid but ....

I’ve created a new Template named “Footer” with this code inside :

<p><span>copyright &copy; {current_time format="%Y"} codenic&middot;com | Tutti i diritti riservati | Powered by </span>
<span><a href="http://www.expressionengine.com" title="Publish Your Universe !">Expression Engine</a> & </span>
<span><a href="http://code.google.com/p/blueprintcss/" title="BluePrint CSS Framework">BluePrint</a> & </span>
<span><a href="http://www.jquery.com" title="jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library">jQuery</a></span></p>

then I tryed to embed this new template in my site/index template, like this:

<div id="footer">{embed="site/footer"}</div>

and the time global variable doesn’t work, infact the result is :
copyright © {current_time format=”%Y”} codenic·com | Tutti i diritti riservati | Powered by Expression Engine & BluePrint & jQuery

I don’t understand…..

Thanks.
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Sock Puppet
Posted: 31 July 2008 02:57 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 5 ]  
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You got a link to your site? That should definitely work.

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CODENIC
Posted: 31 July 2008 03:03 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 6 ]  
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Yes but it’s “work in progress”, however the link is : www.codenic.com.
In the footer section it’s possible to see what I posted.

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Sock Puppet
Posted: 31 July 2008 03:10 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 7 ]  
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It’s all Greek to me. Well, Italian smile All kidding aside, your footer is empty, I am afraid.

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CODENIC
Posted: 31 July 2008 03:20 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 8 ]  
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Sorry Sorry Sorry red face but I changed the footer’s access permission so the my footer is empty.

Now, it’s ok.
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JT Thompson
Posted: 29 August 2008 06:58 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 9 ]  
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There’s definitely something goofy going on there because I have the following code at the very end of my footer and it works just fine

script executed in: {elapsed_time} seconds with a total of {total_queries} queries. Copyright &copy; {current_time format="%Y"}  {site_name}. All rights reserved

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