Name

dynamic_variables — dynamically update configuration directives from files and databases

VALUE

0 | 1

DEFAULT

0

DESCRIPTION

This pragma enables configuration directives (Variables, most notably) to be dynamically updated from system files and databases.

It only makes sense to use this in combination with the DirConfig or VariableDatabase directives, so check their reference pages for more information.

EXAMPLES

Example: Enable dynamic_variables pragma catalog-wide

Put the following in your catalog.cfg:

Pragma dynamic_variables

NOTES

AVAILABILITY

dynamic_variables is available in Interchange versions:

4.6.0-5.9.0 (git-head)

SOURCE

Interchange 5.9.0 (2/2 contexts shown):

Source: code/UserTag/var.tag
Line 25 (context shows lines 15-29)

my ($key, $global, $filter) = @_;
my $value;
if ($global and $global != 2) {
  $value = $Global::Variable->{$key};
}
elsif ($Vend::Session->{logged_in} and defined $Vend::Cfg->{Member}{$key}) {
  $value = $Vend::Cfg->{Member}{$key};
}
else {
  $value = (
    $::Pragma->{dynamic_variables}
    ? Vend::Interpolate::dynamic_var($key)
    : $::Variable->{$key}
  );
  $value ||= $Global::Variable->{$key} if $global;

Source: lib/Vend/Interpolate.pm
Line 611 (context shows lines 601-615 in vars_and_comments():593)

$::Pragma->{$1} = (length($2) ? $2 : 1), ''/ige;

undef $Vend::PageInit unless $::Pragma->{init_page};

if(defined $Vend::PageInit and ! $Vend::PageInit++) {
Vend::Dispatch::run_macro($::Pragma->{init_page}, $html);
}

# Substitute in Variable values
$$html =~ s/$Gvar/$Global::Variable->{$1}/g;
if($::Pragma->{dynamic_variables}) {
  $$html =~ s/$Evar/dynamic_var($1) || $Global::Variable->{$1}/ge
    and
  $$html =~ s/$Evar/dynamic_var($1) || $Global::Variable->{$1}/ge;
  $$html =~ s/$Cvar/dynamic_var($1)/ge;

AUTHORS

Interchange Development Group

SEE ALSO

dynamic_variables_file_only(7ic), DirConfig(7ic), VariableDatabase(7ic), var(7ic)

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