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Is is possible to use a blog variable in a standard template

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Summary information

Perch: 2.8.15, PHP: 5.5.32, MySQL: mysqlnd 5.0.11-dev - 20120503 - $Id: 15d5c781cfcad91193dceae1d2cdd127674ddb3e $, with PDO
Server OS: Linux, cgi-fcgi
Installed apps: content (2.8.15), assets (2.8.15), categories (2.8.15), perch_blog (5.0), perch_forms (1.8.3)
App runtimes: <?php $apps_list = array( 'content', 'categories', 'perch_forms', 'perch_blog', );
PERCH_LOGINPATH: /cms
PERCH_PATH: /home/sites/juanfernandes.co.uk/public_html/cms
PERCH_CORE: /home/sites/juanfernandes.co.uk/public_html/cms/core
PERCH_RESFILEPATH: /home/sites/juanfernandes.co.uk/public_html/cms/resources
Image manipulation: GD
PHP limits: Max upload 64M, Max POST 64M, Memory: 128M, Total max file upload: 64M
Resource folder writeable: Yes
HTTP_HOST: juanfernandes.co.uk
DOCUMENT_ROOT: /home/sites/juanfernandes.co.uk/public_html/
REQUEST_URI: /cms/core/settings/diagnostics/
SCRIPT_NAME: /cms/core/settings/diagnostics/index.php

Top part of post.php

<?php include('../cms/runtime.php');?>
 <!doctype html>
  <?php perch_layout('global.header'); ?>
   <body>
    <div class="page blog-post">
      <header class="page__header" role="banner">
        <?php perch_content('Logo'); ?>
        <?php
            perch_pages_navigation(array(
            'template' => array('item.html')
            ));
          ?>
       </header>
       <?php perch_content('Page Intro'); ?>
       <main role="main">
        <div class="container">
          <div class="content">
            <h2 class="content__heading"><?php perch_content('Sub Heading'); ?></h2>
          <div class="row">
            <div class="cols twelve">
              <?php perch_blog_post(perch_get('s')); ?>
...

Perch content template - Page Intro

        <div class="intro" style="background-image: url('<perch:content type="image" id="intro-image" label="Intro Image" />');">
          <div class="intro__content">
            <h1 class="intro__heading">
              <span class="intro__heading--large"><perch:blog id="postTitle" type="text" /></span>
                <perch:content type="text" id="page-intro-heading-small" label="Heading Small" required="true" />
            </h1>
          </div><!-- /.intro__content -->
        </div><!-- /.intro -->

I'm trying to get the blog post title to show within the perch content template that is being used in post.php - using <perch:blog id="postTitle" type="text" />.

Is this possible?

Thanks

Juan Fernandes 0 points

5 years ago

Simon Clay 127 points

5 years ago

Hi Juan,

You could do it if you switch to using perch_content_custom for 'Page Intro':

replace

<?php perch_content('Page Intro'); ?>

with:

<?php 

  //set the title as a variable
  $title = perch_blog_post_field(perch_get('s'), 'postTitle', true);

  //pass it into the content template
  PerchSystem::set_var('postTitle', $title);

  //call the Page Intro content as custom
  perch_content_custom('Page Intro', array(
  'template'=>'yourTemplate.html' // <--- use your template name here
  ));

?>

then, in your template, replace:

<perch:blog id="postTitle" type="text" />

with:

<perch:content id="postTitle" />

Juan Fernandes 0 points

5 years ago

Thanks Simon, I'll give that a try later on.