hey

how about add support for creating variables through UI (and perhaps API)?
to quickly create variables for usage in custom PHP code in nodes, blocks, views, page manager or panels, for example

maybe it could be integrated (API) with devel for bulk generation of variables.

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lpalgarvio’s picture

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see #755730: Duplicate effort?

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+1

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I'm not sure that strongarm is the appropriate place for a GUI to create variables. Can you give me a little more description of what you'd like to see? ( i.e. ablility to create variables, edit variables you've created, edit all variables, delete variables, etc? )

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since strongarm already provides management of exported variables, i think it would be useful if it allowed managing the other variables, with all kinds of operations as you described, and not just create variable.

i know strongarm is a an API, but if it doesn't bloats much the code for the module, i think here would be a good place for a GUI, instead of another module doing that job.

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Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

I think there are a number of ways variables can be managed ( drush vset, devel, variable_set() etc ), and so adding that ability to strongarm would both be sort of duplicate effort and also deviate from what strongarm does, which is function as an API.

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