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I want to assign a variable within an embed file that has a php conditional in it.

The code for the php conditional, which is stored within template: include/header

<?php
if($user_in_group) {
    ?>{assign_variable:access_to_page="YES"}<?php
}
?>

Then the template it is embedded within is like

{embed="include/header"}
{if "{embed:access_to_page}" == "YES"}<h1>has access to page</h1>{/if}
{embed="include/footer"}

I also tried different variations of the EE conditional

{if "{access_to_page}" == "YES"}<h1>has access to page</h1>{/if}

{if {access_to_page} == "YES"}<h1>has access to page</h1>{/if}

{if access_to_page == "YES"}<h1>has access to page</h1>{/if}

None of those worked.

I imagine it is not possible doing it this way. If it is, I’d love to find out how.

I would like to use the native EE conditional in this situation.

EE processes the main template to completion before any embedded templates run, so it isn’t going to be possible to assign any type of variable using an embedded template.

The other thing you can do is enable PHP parsing on input for the template you are currently using, and they mix PHP variables with EE variables like this

<?php
if(1==1) 
{
    $this->varr = "YES";
}
else
{
    $this->varr = "NO";
}
?>



{if <?=$this->varr;?> == "YES"}<h1>has access to page</h1>{/if}

Obviously you will need your own condition in the if statement where I have 1==1

If you use a series of embeds and toggle the PHP parsing order, you can pass variables between embeds (as well as variables between EE content and PHP).  You will just have to use $this-> before PHP variables to make it globally accessible.

However as mentioned above you can’t pass a variable from an embed back to the parent template.

Does all of that make sense?

Think I could use this to throw in the php code and get the variable from it and test it w/i the conditional on the parent template? well there won’t be an embed, since the fresh variable would take the place of the embed.

http://expressionengine.com/downloads/details/fresh_variables/