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Is there a solution for PHP scripts that have to span multiple templates?

For instance, template A has:

<?php

$name = "John";

?>

And template B has:

<?php

echo $name;

?>

Currently, it appears all PHP parses on a template bases so that this is not possible.
I currently have functions that must execute before the page loads, but I have to be able to call variables it outputs in other templates through the site.

Is this for something like logged in members? If so you can use member profile tags to pull in data, see http://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/modules/member/index.html#custom-profile-data-tag

Have a look at http://devot-ee.com/add-ons/mo-variables it may be helpful. And if you need php vars to consist across templates you may consider using cookies or session vars.

I’m not doing anything with members unfortunately. I’m actually running a <?php include(”/file.php”); ?> on template A and then trying to output some data from that include in template B. I’ll take a look at mo’ variables—that may be close to what I’m looking for.

I used to do this in the path.php on EE 1.6.8 and it worked but now on EE 2.5.3 I can’t seem to get it to work. Any thoughts?

$global_vars = array (
    “my_functions” => $_SERVER[‘DOCUMENT_ROOT’] . “/includes/inc.functions.php
  , “my_global_var” => “My Name”
  , “my_other_global_var” => “Some Data”
)

Then in any template I could do this:

<? p h p

include(’{my_functions}’);

echo ‘{my_global_var}’;

echo ‘{my_other_global_var}’;

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