Re: [Pagekit-users] Passing model vars as component params

[Boris Z. <bo...@no...>]

Hi Bill,

Am Dienstag, 29. April 2003 01:17 schrieb Bill Karwin:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to pass a model var to a component, and access it in the model
> code using pkit_component_param_hashref.
>
> I pass it like this:
> <PKIT_COMPONENT NAME="/components/finance_email" FINANCE_EMAIL="<MODEL_VAR
> NAME=FINANCE_EMAIL>">
>
> But in the handler for finance_email(), the value passed is literally
> <MODEL_VAR NAME="FINANCE_EMAIL">.  PageKit doesn't seem to interpolate the
> model var syntax before passing it to the component.
>

that is right, the model_var's are interpolated, when all subs are called.

> How can I pass the value of this model var from one component to the
> sub-component?  Is there a better way to do this?

If you want to pass it as a var, you can do something like

sub model_code {
  $model->output(FINANCE_EMAIL => 'xxx');
}

and in 

sub finance_email {
  ...
 my $financel_email = $model->output('FINANCE_EMAIL');
 ..
}


>
> Regards,
> Bill Karwin
>

i hope that was the problem.

Have a nice day.

-- 
Boris