What was the point in making us register variables?
 

What was the point in making us register variables?

To me it is nothing but a pain in the rear end.

When you want to register a variable to pull in your template you have to register it in every template that is around yours.

For instance I am trying to use
I have to register it in my template and preregister 3 other templates to get it to show on the postbit_legacy template and it still don't want to show.

Why should it be that stupid. That is tons of extra code we shouldn't have to type.

I remember when you could just use
I don't mind typing
But for me to have to type
and
and so on for each template that wraps around mine.

Just to return $modcpdir is totally insane.

I think the reasons for it is security.

Nah as far as I know you don't have to register it for the outer templates. You just pre-register variables when you need to use the variable inside of that template. You don't need to go through it's hierarchy registering it for each parent template.

For example I had to pre-register my custom header template for the 'header' template. Then any custom variables I wanted to use inside my custom template I just registered directly for that. I didn't have to register them for the 'header' template too.

The thing I did find though which seemed senseless to me is that if you register your variables for the same custom template in more than one place for example I registered the code for an avatar in one plugin and the rest of my variables in another plugin. Then I found that I needed to re-register those variables. i.e. I found that because I had called the create/render lines for my template again it had unregistered the variables I had already registered. Now that certainly confused me lol.

I preregister them in my global.php file

that way you wont have to add that line to a million files

be warned though, some actions dont include the global.php