Re: [Slashcode-general] Accessing the section's name and title within index.pl

[Chris N. <pu...@po...>]

At 19:29 +0200 2001.04.12, as...@en... wrote:
>I'm trying to refer to a section's name from within the index.pl file. This
>works nicely from article.pl -- $section.title and $section.section -- but
>index.pl seems blind to its origins. I see that slashdisplay is what sends
>the template its variables, but I don't understand how the DBI works enough
>to be able to add to the variables that the index template receives.

>Can anyone help? It should only be a line or two of code added index.pl . In
>fact, maybe index.pl already does know its own section but it's simply
>accessed another way.

Well, if index.pl is set to a particular section, you should be able to get
it with $form.section, since that is the only way I know of to set index.pl
to a particular section.

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