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1. eddiegiese
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I'm trying to pass a PHP variable ($pageTitle) that I define in the top section of each template page (i.e. 404.php) so that I can call up a specific CSS file for unique page styling. It works when I hard-code the variable into the header.php file, which is checking for the $pageTitle variable, but not when I put it in an individual page and try to pass it to the header.php. I've done this on multiple other sites that don't use WordPress without a problem. Can WordPress not support this basic functionality? Is there an additional way to define this in WordPress?

2. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   WordPress won't let you include variables in the same way that you might do on a non-WP site. One way to approach this might to use a custom field on your pages and use the value in that field to determine which stylesheet to load.

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Custom_Fields

   Or perhaps you could use body_class() if you simply want to style certain blocks differently.

3. lancemonotone
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I don't know if you can pass variables between theme files but you can define a variable in your theme's functions.php file, then at the top of each template file declare it in the global space:

   functions.php
   

   $some_var = 'Hello World!';

   footer.php (for example)
   

   global $some_var;
   
   echo $some_var;

4. este
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Fantastic lancemonotone !!!!

5. jcskyrocket
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Very handy!

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