There are many ways in Magento to pass values from Block to template. I think these two ways are neat: Method 1: in Block, $this->setVariableName($value); and in template, $this->getVariableName(); Method 2: in Block, $this->assign(‘variableName’, $value); and in template, $variableName is ready to use.
Day: October 22, 2009
Zend Framework in Magento
The library of Zend Framework included in Magento under lib folder is not the genuine Zend Framework. Although I don’t know why Magento did that, I do know: If I replace Magento lib/Zend with genuine ZF, Magento throws errors. If I put geninue ZF in php include_path, Magento appends it to its own include_path, and… Continue reading Zend Framework in Magento