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Super Globals Lite gives you quick and easy access to POST and GET variables in your templates without having to enable PHP.

The extension allows you to use GET and POST variables without enabling PHP in your templates, or adding PHP to your config file. As a bonus, Super Globals Lite also includes access to every member field for the current user with a single variable. If logged in, {member:bio} will return the Bio text. {member:bio:label} will print “Bio”. The :label is especially useful for Custom Member Fields in which you may have a long Label name. These variables are usually available with a 3rd party modules such as User, or using the built in{exp:member:custom_profile_data} tag pair, but with Super Globals you can access them anywhere as a single variable… no tag pair required, and even use them in template conditional statements.

In order for GET and POST variables to work, the possible names must be used at least once, or entered into the default list in the settings menu. For example, the first time you submit a form with the field first_name, your template may render{post:first_name} and not parse it, thus not showing the value it contains. The second time, and any time thereafter, the variable will work properly. Or you can define a list of expected POST and GET variables in the settings page, and they will work immediately.

If you are submitting a form with the following fields: first_name, last_name, and message, you can access the posted values by using {post:first_name}, {post:last_name} and {post:message} anywhere in your templates, even in a conditional. The same works for GET variables, e.g. {get:referrer}

Super Globals Lite is just the extension file from the full version of Super Globals that provides this functionality.

Super Globals Lite Links

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This entry was last updated March 29, 2012, 9:02 am.

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