By creathing on

Hi,

I want to create a new variable to use in all my views template files.
In template.php I've created a new funtion:

function mytheme_preprocess(&$vars) {
$vars['myvar'] = 'this is my new var';
}

Now, I want to use this new variable in my views-view-fields--viewname--block.tpl.php files, but how can I do that?
I've tried following...

print render($page['prevmonth']); (when the function was called function mytheme_preprocess_page(&$vars) )
print render($views['prevmonth']); (when the function was called function mytheme_preprocess_views(&$vars) )
print render($block['prevmonth']); (when the function was called function mytheme_preprocess_block(&$vars) )
print $prevmonth;

... but nothing seems to work. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks!

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Comments

imranweb’s picture

imranweb commented

Hi,

You may try using module's hook.

e.g.

function MODULE_preprocess_views_view(&$vars) {
  $vars['custom_variable'] = 'foo bar';
}

You may also try by theme hook.

function THEME_preprocess_views_view(&$vars) {
  $vars['custom_variable'] = 'foo bar';
}

Note: Kindly replace "MODULE" with your module name and "THEME" with theme name.

-Imran

creathing’s picture

creathing commented

Thx for the quick reply!

However, I'm still having problems.
I've changed my function in template.php to:

function mytheme_preprocess_views_view(&$vars) {
$vars['myvar'] = 'this is a new variable';
}

And in my views template file I try to print the variable like this:
print $views_view['myvar'];
or print $views['myvar'];
Then I get an Undefined variable notice

or when I print it like this:
print $views['myvar'];
I get a fatal error: Cannot use object of type view as array in views-view-fields--viewname--block.tpl.php

Any thoughts?

Jeff Burnz’s picture

Jeff Burnz commented

Dude, to print a variable you just print it:

print $myvar
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creathing’s picture

creathing commented

Hi Jeff,

Thanks for the quick reply!
indeed, correct, I've tried to print following:

print render($page['myvar']); (when the function was called function mytheme_preprocess_page(&$vars) )
print render($views['myvar']); (when the function was called function mytheme_preprocess_views(&$vars) )
print render($block['myvar']); (when the function was called function mytheme_preprocess_block(&$vars) )
even print $myvar;

But every time I get an undefined variable notice. Any ideas? Thx!

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esavoie commented

I'm also trying to access a variable from a parent theme inside my subtheme and it gives me undefined variable error as well.

I am trying to put in OM Maximenu as my main menu and i can't find where to put in the suggested code

 print $main_menu_tree;

.
I tried putting it in the region--menu.tpl.php in openpublish/themes/openpublish-themes/gazette/templates but it gives me the following error:

Notice: Undefined variable: main_menu_tree in include() (line 3 of /profiles/openpublish/themes/openpublish-themes/gazette/templates/region--menu.tpl.php).

If I put the exact same line of code in the openpublish/themes/omega/alpha/templates/page.tpl.php it works just fine and displays my menu. However it doesn't show it in the spot i want. I want it in the menu region. How can I do this?

Is there something I need to do to make the openpublish gazette theme recognize the $main_menu_tree variable? Do I need to include it somehow? It is available in both the omega alpha and omega omega themes, just not in the gazette theme...

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
Eric

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esavoie commented

Ok after around 10 hours of fiddling with this and looking at random code I found all over the internet I finally figured out a solution to my problem.

In my sub-theme\preprocess folder I created a file called "preprocess-region.inc" and inside I wrote the following code:

    function gazette_alpha_preprocess_region(&$vars){
        $vars['main_menu_tree'] = alpha_get_theme()->page['main_menu_tree'];

So what I've achieved is simply grabbing the main_menu_tree variable from the alpha theme and put it in my sub_theme via the preprocess