When the majority of your templates use the same headers and footers, it
is common to split those out into their own templates and include them.
But what if the header needs to have a different title, depending on
what page you are coming from? You can pass the title to the header when
it is included.
Example 18-3. Passing the title variable to the header template
mainpage.tpl
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{include file="header.tpl" title="Main Page"}
{* template body goes here *}
{include file="footer.tpl"}
archives.tpl
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{config_load file="archive_page.conf"}
{include file="header.tpl" title=#archivePageTitle#}
{* template body goes here *}
{include file="footer.tpl"}
header.tpl
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<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>{$title|default:"BC News"}</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
footer.tpl
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</BODY>
</HTML> |
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When the main page is drawn, the title of "Main Page" is passed to the
header.tpl, and will subsequently be used as the title. When the
archives page is drawn, the title will be "Archives". Notice in the
archive example, we are using a variable from the archives_page.conf
file instead of a hard coded variable. Also notice that "BC News" is
printed if the $title variable is not set, using the
default variable modifier.