Global catalog variable

I think this is simple, but, maby not. What I would like to do is have something set on the back end that would act as a custom "setting" for my catalog(s). I'm building a product catalog and I would like to have the ability to set something that can be read globally by all items.

Example, Have a Back end option for the whole catalog where I say "Store Active: X" .

In my catalog reader template, I could have something like:

Code:

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<?php if ($varStoreActive): ?>
// Do stuff
<?php endif; ?>

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It's easy to set options on a per entry level, but, adding the global option would be REALLY helpful( It may already exist and I'm being stupid by not seeing it).

Thank you for your help.

For global Operations Contao has the global Variable ;-)

Here is an example :

Code:

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<?php if(strlen($this->Input->get('kategorie')))
{
  global $objPage;
  $objPage->pageTitle = "".$entry['data']['kategorie']['value']." - XYZ"; 
}
?>

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Here the title would be set to the current kategorie of an Item.

Maybe this helps...

regards

Oohhh, ok, that will come in handy. I guess now the next step is to work on adding a variable to the global list and making it editable from the Back end.

Thank you MackP.