This question and answer explains how to access a plugin's settings from elsewhere in the plugin's PHP code.
How would I access these settings from within a template? Or this impossible and I'd have to pass the values into the template when rendering it? ie, in a Controller action:
$settings = craft()->plugins->getPlugin('myPlugin')->getSettings();
$templateVars = array(
'foo' => $settings->foo,
);
$this->renderTemplate('myPlugin/templateName', $templateVars);
Not sure if there's a build in way, but you can set up a template variable that returns the settings model.
class MyPluginVariable
{
public function settings()
{
return craft()->plugins->getPlugin('myPlugin')->getSettings();
}
}
Then access it in your template.
{% set settings = craft.myPlugin.settings %}
In more recent versions of Craft 2.x (I forget when it was added), you can simply do this without needing a plugin:
craft.config.get('setting', 'plugin')
Where 'plugin' is the name of your plugin's config file (sans .php).
If you want to do this in Craft 3, you'd do:
craft.app.getModule('pluginHandle').getSettings().mySetting
From what I understand the only way to get plugin info back (in a template) is by doing:
{% set plugin = craft.plugins.getPlugin('PluginHandle') %}
This returns an instance of PluginVariable for your plugin, so you have access to any method detailed in craft/app/variables/PluginVariable.php (the craft class reference)
It looks like the getSettings() function isn't exposed in this, so I don't think its possible.
I could be wrong and there could be a way, but I couldn't figure it out from a quick look over the code :/
