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[bsmither]

I've tried several variations on this and all I get is Array.

getTemplateVars("LANG[account][login]")
getTemplateVars("LANG['account']['login']")
getTemplateVars("LANG.account.login")
getTemplateVars("LANG.account[login]")

<?php
// many lines of prep not needed to be reproduced here
$lang = array('account'=>array('login'=>"Login, Dude!"));
assign('LANG', $lang);
?>

Is there a proper way to get the value from an array that was assigned to a template variable?

[rodneyrehm]

At the moment there is not, no. What do you need this feature for and why should we implement it in the future?
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[bsmither]

Short answer: to get only what I needed.

Long answer: I was peppering an application with code that would test a certain variable and log the value. The variable is a huge 2D array containing language strings. With debug_backtrace(), I needed to find the moment when the language variable was being subverted. (There was nothing special about the key path chosen, but was one of hundreds out of thousands that were being subverted.)

What I did:
$qzq = getTemplateVars('LANG');
$qzq = $qzq['account']['login'];
fwrite($fp,$qzq);

Why you should implement it: Why be so un-versatile? For the same essential reason that getTemplateVars() was devised originally.

Thank you.

[mohrt]