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Moderators: martimiz, Sean, Ed, biapar, Willr, Ingo, swaiba

How to print Variable as part of string larger string


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bmc38119

Community Member, 45 Posts

20 January 2010 at 2:38am

I need to add a mouseover event to navigation links and want to have the $URLSegment as part of the unique name. However, it appears that I cannot do this b/c the variable is inserted in the middle of a larger string.

see example below:

<a href="$Link" onMouseOver='document.nav_$URLSegment.src=nav_$URLSegment_over.src;' onMouseOut='document.nav_$URLSegment.src=nav_$URLSegment_off.src;'><img src="/$ThemeDir/images/nav-$URLSegment-off.jpg" name="nav_$URLSegment" style="display:block;border:none;padding-left:5px;float:right;" /></a>

other than creating functions to handle creating the entire string, is there another method to be able to tell the template where to start or end the variable name?

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Willr

Forum Moderator, 5523 Posts

20 January 2010 at 6:27pm

You can 'escape' the variable by using { }. Eg SomeStringWith{$AVar}InTheMiddle

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bmc38119

Community Member, 45 Posts

26 January 2010 at 11:43am

thank you. exactly what i needed.