Global PHP variables in Templates

Hi, Lars. No real idea on my part.. so deferring this to the dev team. Thanks in advance for your patience.

Hi Lars,

Could you give me a bit more detail please.

Are your trying to access a PHP global in the template or an ExpressionEngine Global in php?

Thanks, Barry

Hey Barry,

it’s a php global in the PHP code that is included into the template. Below is simple example for the included config.php that is been shown in my first post.

<?php

class Config
{
    function singleton ()
    {
        $conf['field1'] = "field1";
        $conf['field2'] = "field2";
        return $conf;
    }
}


$config = Config::singleton();

echo "outside class";
print_r($config);

class DoSomething
{
    function run ()
    {
        global $config;
        echo "inside class";
        print_r($config);
    }
}

$do = new DoSomething();
$do->run();

?>

Hope this helps a bit…

ciao Lars

Update: I’ve updated the code to work correctly stand-alone and in a template and it shows exactly the behaviour as described.

Hi Lars,

Thanks very much. We’ll update this thread as soon as we can.

Cheers

Greg

Hi Greg,

did you have some time to look at it? Any news already?

ciao Lars

Lars,

Do you get an error? Do you have error reporting turned on?

Can you try

<?php

require_once( PATH . '/config.php' );

?>

Hi John,

thanks for the reply. I’m sorry, the code is a bit confusing. BASE is a predefined directory. Error reporting is on and the config.php is included correctly. I can get output from within the config.php. I did print_r statements in various places within the config.php. I’ve updated the pseudo code example above to be a working code, that can be tested. If the config.php is now called directly from the browser, I get both print_r outputs. When the config.php is included in a template, the second print_r is empty.

best Lars

So, what’s not working? Are you getting an error message? Nothing? Also, moving to “Development”.

Hi Ingmar,

I’m not getting an error message. The problem is that the second print_r is empty, when used in a EE template. But I would need the information in the run method of DoSomething.

As the code works when called directly I assume, that the PHP configuration is right and globals can be accessed this way. However, when I am including the PHP file in a EE template with input PHP parsing I cannot access the $config variable anymore in the run method (hence the print_r is empty). However, the PHP code is executed in the EE template when the template is called, because the first print_r shows the correct result.

best Lars