Way to push variables to recycle templates?

ehime

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just curious if there’s a way to carry variables with you to the next template, I thought (coming from a PHP background) that posting variables would be a way, but this would have a form requirement.

Here’s an example to illustrate my point

I have several templates currently that basically do the same thing, but
with small variable changes. Here’s an index

{html_head}
{embed="multiverse/.html_header" page_title="Product" body_class="p-product"}
{embed="multiverse/.navigation"}

  {embed="products/.dynamic_feature-block"}

  {embed="products/.products_module" chan="products" cat_id="3" stat="featured|open" limt="12"}

{embed="multiverse/.html_footer"}
{html_close}

and here’s a sample of one of the product pages (Laptops in this scenario)

{html_head}
{embed="multiverse/.html_header" page_title="Laptops" body_class="p-product"}
{embed="multiverse/.navigation"}

  {embed="products/.dynamic_feature-block"}

  {embed="products/.products_module" chan="products" cat_id="6" stat="featured|open" limt="12"}

{embed="multiverse/.html_footer"}
{html_close}

You can see that the only “Actual” differences between these two are
A: Page title
B: Category ID number

Not a whole lot eh?

So here is a chance that I can basically clip the 7 templates, and recycle
them using one master instead. I guess the real question is, how would I carry over
those variables from one page to the next, so on .products_module

<section id="{embed:chan}" class="product-content">
   <div class="wrap">
    <hgroup>
     <h1>Routers</h1>
     <ul id="prod-subnav">
      <li><a href="http://{path=">Routers</a></li>
      <li><a href="http://{path=">Mobile</a></li>
      <li><a href="http://{path=">Laptop</a></li>
      <li><a href="http://{path=">Tv & DVR</a></li>
      <li><a href="http://{path=">USB</a></li>
     </ul>
    </hgroup>

    <ul class='list-column-3'>
    {exp:channel:entries channel="{embed:chan}" category="{embed:cat_id}" status="{embed:stat}" limit="{embed:limt}" paginate="bottom"}
     {if no_results}No Products in this Channel, check channel info?{/if}
     <li>
      <hgroup>
       {if product_blurb_image}{product_blurb_image}{/if}

       <h1>{title}</h1>
       {product_blurb}

       <!--/** Something like this maybe?
         *
         * <?php 
         * $assign_to_config['global_vars'] = array("{title}" => array( 
         *                                          "category" => "{cat_id}", 
         *                                          "title" => ucwords("{category_name}"));
         * ?>
         *
         */ -->

      </hgroup>
      <a href="http://{embed:chan}/{url_title}class=red-btn">Learn More</a>
     </li>
  
     {switch="||</ul><ul class='list-column-3'>"}

        {paginate}
            <li>Page {current_page} of {total_pages} pages {pagination_links}</li>
        {/paginate}
  
    {/exp:channel:entries}
    </ul>

    <div class="clear"></div>  

   </div><!--/wrap-->
  </section><!--/{embed:chan}-->

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