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June 14, 2011 19:33
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Drupal - Get access to the $node variable in page.tpl.php
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| <?php | |
| //we want the node, outside of node.tpl.php! | |
| $node = $variables['node']; |
Using $variables['node'] in page.tpl.php is evil? Is it evil as in it causes more queries and load time, or evil as in non-MVC?
Drupal is quite non-mvc by itself (a lot of the view stuff is handled in the controller layer imo) so I don't think it is that...
I just mean, is it bad for performance, or is it bad in the way that putting functional code (setting a variable) is bad in a template file?
More maintainable maybe? Templates are meant to be changed... template.php is more constant?
You should probably also do this:
$node = &$variables['node'];
so that changes to the node are actual changes to the node.
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Make sure to do this in your template.php though (inside a hook_preprocess_page()) Don't be evil and do it directly in the page.tpl.php template :)