Accessing journal settings in a Smarty template

[aidanfindlater]

I'm trying to access the displayCurrentIssue journal setting from my template, but can't figure out how to.

The template at templates/manager/setup/step5.tpl simply references {$displayCurrentIssue} but that doesn't work from templates/index/journal.tpl. I ended up adding a line to classes/template/TemplateManager.inc.php to provide this variable. This works just fine, but I'd rather leave the code base untouched to make upgrading easy. How is it that the step5 template can access it but the journal template cannot?

I admit that this is my first foray into Smarty templates -- sorry if the answer's obvious!

[asmecher]

Hi aidanfindlater,

The code that allows the setup pages to access journal settings is in classes/manager/form/setup/JournalSetupForm.inc.php. If you want to access the displayCurrentIssue setting from another template, you should be able to use something like:

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{$currentJournal->getSetting('displayCurrentIssue()}

FYI, upgrading modified code without losing the customizations is possible using the patch-based upgrade method. (Of course, this may mean some manual merging of changes, depending on where the customizations are and what has changed between versions of OJS.)

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Open Journal Systems Team