Trying to set a dynamic twig variable using craft.request and a craft global

Question

I'd like to understand how to combine these two elements into a twig set vars.

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Context: I'm building a dynamic template that will list entries from which ever section the URL segment loads. For example /news will be news articles.

Each template will have a page title variable that I'm sending up to the _layout master. The page title's are input using craft.global's I have them setup like this {{ news.pageTitle }}.

In my dynamic template I'm trying to load everything from the URL slug. For example if it loaded the /notices URL the template would render the global: {{ notices.pageTitle }}.

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Craft global: {{ news.pageTitle }}

URL Segment (/news): {% set getSegment = craft.request.getSegment(1) %}

This works: {% set pageTitle = news.pageTitle %}

But this doesn't: {% set pageTitle = getSegment.pageTitle %}

Answer 1

Are you trying to look up the global variable {{ news.pageTitle }} by having the news part be dynamically set from the first segment?

This answer here might help explain. Then try this...

{% set pageTitle = _context[craft.request.getSegment(1)].pageTitle|default("News") %}

I don't think that's the best way to set the displayed page title for your sections, but I believe that's what you're trying to do.

A slightly nicer way would be to also create a page for each section/channel root and have its URL be the same as the base path you use for the entries in those sections. Then you could dynamically look up the page attached to any entry by using this (sorry it's complicated)...

{% set page = craft.enties.url(entry.section.urlFormat|split("{")[0]) %}

That should find the page with the URL that matches the URL of the section entries (up until the first dynamic part). Then you can use the page title, banner, or any other fields you've put on the page.