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Sean I’ll do up something really quick tonight for you to watch - admittedly it may not be as in depth as some of the discussion here, but I can at least show you how I use them.

Chad,

Thanks and lookign forward to it.

I have used FV for the first time on a project just launched. I will say it can be useful for all projects but like Boyink! stated they should not be made to fit a project but more a defined need for them.  The way I used mine was to keep my template uncluttered and basic globals would not cut it.  The mere fact it accepts weblog and other tags is enough for me.  It’s a light alternative to using embeds as it’s processing is early in the template.  I think with an upgraded interface fresh variables could become a staple in every install.

Sean, did you see my response on Twitter?

Sue,
yes I did. Sorry for not responding. Basically I want to see how other devs use it. Once I see it in use I’ll better be able to see uses for it (if any) in my own projects.

Hi,

I did not have time to read this full thread, but…

I noticed that PHP has to be turned on via your template if the Fresh Variable uses PHP. Is this observation correct? If so, is this by design?

Thanks for the amazing extension/module. 😊

Yes, it does not allow you to override any template settings, including PHP parsing.

Yes, it does not allow you to override any template settings, including PHP parsing.

Thanks for the quick reply and clarification Derek!

Someone told me that they like to put their PHP includes inside an embed, that way they can avoid turning on PHP parsing for the parent template… They said that doing this can be faster.

I was kinda hoping Fresh Variables would be an alternative to having to use templates… Not a biggy though, I love my Fresh Variables! It is one of the most useful extensions/modules that I have used. 😊

Thanks again!
Cheers,
Micky

Your best bet in that case, mhulse, is to move your PHP to a plugin, not another template.  You don’t want to go through all of the resource and processing that is required to parse an entire template for a couple lines of PHP.

move your PHP to a plugin

Doh! Excellent idea! I did not think of that. :D

Thanks again for Fresh Variables!

It appears that comments don’t work in fresh variables….

{!-- is displayed as text --}

What about:

<!-- Not displayed as text -->

Keep in mind, you should not nest comments… So you may run into probs if you have the above inside another HTML comment.

Comments are stripped before Fresh Variables are parsed in 1.x.

I am getting the following error at the top of the Utilities -> Extensions Manager page after our site was moved to another server:

Warning: include(/home/user/public_html/system/extensions/ext.fresh_variables.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/user/public_html/system/cp/cp.utilities.php on line 147

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening '/home/user/public_html/system/extensions/ext.fresh_variables.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/php') in /home/domain/public_html/system/cp/cp.utilities.php on line 147

The files for the Fresh Variables extension are all there and permissions are set to 644. Thanks.

What about the file owner, eeart?  “Permission denied in” means that PHP does not have rights to read this file.