Here's another fun one Nate Haug showed me. Keep your vars separated into .vars.php files and only loads what is needed depending on the hook: <?php /** * Intercept template variables * * @param $hook * The name of the theme function being executed * @param $vars * A sequential array of variables passed to the theme function. */ function _phptemplate_variables($hook, $vars = array()) { global $user; $vars['user'] = $user; $vars['path'] = base_path() . path_to_theme() .'/'; $vars['admin'] = $user->roles[3] || $user->uid == 1 ? TRUE : FALSE; $vars['moderator'] = $user->roles[4] ? TRUE : FALSE; $vars['editor'] = $user->roles[5] ? TRUE : FALSE; $vars['authenticated'] = $user->uid ? TRUE : FALSE; // Include broad variables for each hook. if (file_exists($vars['directory'] .'/'. $hook .'.vars.php')) { include_once $vars['directory'] .'/'. $hook .'.vars.php'; $function = 'myplay_theme_variables_'. str_replace('-', '_', $hook); $vars = $function($vars); } // Specific variables for node types. if ($hook == 'node') { if (file_exists($vars['directory'] .'/node-'. $vars['node']->type .'.vars.php')) { include_once $vars['directory'] .'/node-'. $vars['node']->type .'.vars.php'; $function = 'myplay_theme_variables_node_'. $vars['node']->type; $vars = $function($vars); } } return $vars; } ?> On Dec 16, 2007 10:35 PM, Larry Garfield <larry@garfieldtech.com> wrote:
On Sunday 16 December 2007, Anton wrote:
On 17/12/2007, Michelle Cox <mcox@charter.net> wrote:
Now that is a _great_ idea! I'll put that down in the readme as an option if they aren't able to do the merge. Thanks!
Michelle
Along similar lines, have you seen this method:
It might be slightly more generic and easy to use for newbies.
Fascinating. I've recently started doing this in my themes:
Many ways to skin this cat, it seems. :-)
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