By petiar on

Hi everybody,

I am developing new module which should allow users to set up their own title and slogan for their blogs. What I don't know is how could I change the site_name and site_slogan variables inside my module without need to hack the page.tpl.php. I assume this will have something to do with the template preprocess but I am not very experienced with this yet. Can anyone think of any solution?

Thanks a lot,
Petiar.

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Kuldip Gohil’s picture

Kuldip Gohil commented

You can temporary set value of the following variable when someone visit particular blog (i dont know how you manage it , you can manage it through url or session)

variable_set('site_name', "YOUR BLOG NAME");
variable_set('site_slogan', "YOUR SLOGAN");

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petiar commented

I am afraid variable_set function updates persistent variables and updates db, so if I use this command I'll actually overwrite settings for whole website that means users browsing other than blog pages will see these variables changed as well. Or am I missing anything? Anyway, thanks for reply!

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petiar commented

I've found out that site_name is being kept in $GLOBALS['conf']['site_name'] and as such can be easily overwritten. However, it looks like bit dodgy way of coding - overwriting global vars.

Does anyone has got any other idea?

Thanks.

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http://folk.sk

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tgcondor commented

I have a similar need, and thanks for pointing out GLOBALS. If you find a better way, though, please post here.

TAA