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I am working to modularize my project by moving common template elements to embedded templates.

However, I’m having trouble understanding how to pass variables to the embedded templates.

For example, I wish to pass {entry_date}. I’ve tried

{embed="content-blocks/date" pass_entry_date="{entry_date}"}

Then in content-blocks/date, I have:

{{embed:pass_entry_date} format='%l %M %d  %Y'}

However, I am getting:

{1209280680 format=' %l %M %d %Y'}

What am I doing wrong? Are there any threads that go into more detail about passing variables?

Try this:

{embed:pass_entry_date format="%l %M %d  %Y"}

Hmmm.

The containing template:

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="{embed:current_weblog}" limit="1"} 
{embed="content-blocks/date" current_weblog="{current_weblog}" current_template_group="{current_template_group}" pass_entry_date="{entry_date}"} 
{/exp:weblog:entries}

Now, I put this in the embedded template”

{embed:pass_entry_date}
{embed:pass_entry_date format="%l %M %d  %Y"}

This is what I’m seeing.

1209280680 {embed:pass_entry_date format="%l %M %d %Y"}

The date appears to be passing (I assume that “1209280680” is the numeric date value).

However, for some reason the format date processing isn’t happening. Do I have to turn it on somewhere?

Correction. I discovered one problem: in multiple nested templates, one must add embed to to beginning of variables.

So, they’re all working except ... the passed entry_date variable appears as 1209280680 but, as soon as I add formatting code, the variable breaks.

So ...

{embed:pass_entry_date}

... appears as ...

1209280680

However ...

{embed:pass_entry_date format="%F %d %Y"}

... appears as ...

{embed:pass_entry_date format="%F %d %Y"}

Here’s my original note; now irrelevant.

Additional info: none of my embed statements are being parsed.

{current_weblog} {current_template_group} 1209280680

I added a {exp:weblog:entries} loop around the fields and they just disappeared.

I think I’m missing something very basic about assign variables, or configuration.

Any ideas? Links to threads that clarify passing variables to embedded templates?

What if you format the date in the calling template, so to speak:

{embed="content-blocks/date" pass_entry_date="{entry_date format='%l %M %d  %Y'}"}

And then simply {embed:entry_date} in the embed? If that fails, you can certainly use PHP to achieve what you’re after, but it seems like overkill.

Bingo. Thank you!

Woot 😊 Closing for now.