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07/30/07 12:25pm

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Chrispcritters

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I'm trying to pull the $pagetitle value into a block, but it's just bringing in the site name and does not include the staticpages title. Anyone know how to do this?

08/06/07 03:05pm

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machinari

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write a php block function that returns $_CONF[pagetitle] as well as your block content. store it in your lib-custom according to the instructions for creating php blocks.
for example:

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function phpblock_SPpagetitle() {

  global $_CONF;

  $retval = '';

  $retval .= $_CONF['pagetitle'];

  $retval .= 'rest of block content';

  return $retval;

}

I dunno but I don't see any reason why that wouldn't work.

08/06/07 03:37pm

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jmucchiello

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You need two functions CUSTOM_templatesetvars (or if you are in a plugin use plugin_templatesetvars_$plugin) and your phpblock.

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$current_pagetitle = '';

function CUSTOM_templatesetvars($templatename, $template)

{

    global $current_pagetitle;

    if ($templatename == 'header') {

        $current_pagetitle = $template->get_var('page_title');

    }

}

function phpblock_whatever()

{

     global $current_pagetitle;

     $display = "The current page title is $current_pagetitle";

     return $display;

}

That's entirely untested but I think it does it. I'll try it myself later if I get the chance.

08/06/07 04:14pm

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machinari

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btw, I justed tested my solution and it works fine.

08/06/07 05:52pm

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jmucchiello

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Mine works in right blocks, not left blocks. I thought the templatesetvars was called before blocks were done but it happens in the opposite order.

Machinari - Yours only works on staticpages (because the staticpage code modifies $_CONF['pagetitle'] directly). That's what the OP wants but a generic pagetitle block only works with my code and only on a right block.

08/06/07 08:55pm

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machinari

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Quote by: jmucchiello

Machinari - Yours only works on staticpages

Yup. that's what he wanted. I presumed that he has a plan for checking the current page in order to ensure that the block returns empty when he's not on a staticpage.

and chrisp, if you haven't thought of that then here's where your start. Here are two options for your phpblock. both work and will only return stuff on staticpages.

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/* I want this block to return something on staticpages only. */

function phpblock_SPpagetitle() {

  global $_CONF;

  $retval = '';

  $thisurl = COM_getCurrentURL();

  if (eregi('staticpage', $thisurl)){

    $retval = $_CONF['pagetitle'];

  }

  return $retval;

}

/* I want this block to return something on the specified staticpages only. */

function phpblock_SPpagetitle() {

  global $_CONF;

  $retval = '';

  $thisurl = COM_getCurrentURL();

  $pages = array('http://mypage1',

                            'http://mypage2',

                            'http://mypage3');

  if (in_array($thisurl, $pages){

    $retval = $_CONF['pagetitle'];

  }

  return $retval;

}

or something like that.

08/06/07 11:22pm

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jmucchiello

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You should use (stristr($thisurl, 'staticpages'

!== false) rather than eregi. Without a regular expression there's no reason to use eregi. Also, there use to be a task to eliminate ereg* from Geeklog in favor of the preg* function since the preg* functions support unicode.

If you are on PHP5, use stripos in place of stristr as it doesn't return the unneeded string.