Global Variable in Presentation Template

I have a series of presentation templates that need to be compiled when the user generates the top level presentation template. Each of the resulting index pages that are generated need to read through the same set of dcrs. Rather that opening the dir and reading the same set of dcrs multiple times I would like to find a way to read the dcrs once and use the resulting @DCRS as a global array that can be looped over in each of the subsequent compiles of the various index pages. Is there anyway to create the array of dcrs once and declare it as a gloabl or to pass it down to the various index page compilations.

Hope this makes a little sense and thanks for any help!

Craig

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Adam Stoller

I have a series of presentation templates that need to be compiled when the user generates the top level presentation template. Each of the resulting index pages that are generated need to read through the same set of dcrs. Rather that opening the dir and reading the same set of dcrs multiple times I would like to find a way to read the dcrs once and use the resulting @DCRS as a global array that can be looped over in each of the subsequent compiles of the various index pages. Is there anyway to create the array of dcrs once and declare it as a gloabl or to pass it down to the various index page compilations.

Hope this makes a little sense and thanks for any help!

Craig

You'd probably be better off creating Perl modules and making the top-level PT use those modules for doing all the different pieces -- essentially one PT with lots of modules.

I you want to be able to start at a lower level too - then you create another PT there that probably calls a sub-set of the module functions.

gzevin

I have a series of presentation templates that need to be compiled when the user generates the top level presentation template. Each of the resulting index pages that are generated need to read through the same set of dcrs. Rather that opening the dir and reading the same set of dcrs multiple times I would like to find a way to read the dcrs once and use the resulting @DCRS as a global array that can be looped over in each of the subsequent compiles of the various index pages. Is there anyway to create the array of dcrs once and declare it as a gloabl or to pass it down to the various index page compilations.

Hope this makes a little sense and thanks for any help!

Craig

Fish has listed one of the approaches.

You might want to have what you have already, and simply save the data - you can use a host of modules, that would sve ayour data structure (array, hash, etc) into a plain file or a database