Global catalog variable

[harley77]

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:

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

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.

[MacKP]

For global Operations Contao has the global Variable ;-)

Here is an example :

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

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

Maybe this helps...

regards

[harley77]

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.