Variables

Context-aware variables are always available in your views, giving you access to dynamic information about the current URL, user, loaded entry, site settings, and more.

Overview

Where appropriate, Statamic will inject data automatically for you to use in your views.

For example, when a view is loaded, you get automatic access to the variables applicable to it. You don't need to use a tag to "get" the data. If you're viewing an entry's URL, all of the entry variables will just
be there.

If you use a tag that does supply some data, it will typically make those variables available.

The collection tag will loop over entries, again giving you access to entry variables within the loop. The assets tag gives you asset variables, the taxonomy tag gives you term variables, and so on.

The same is true for within tag pairs of augmented values. Looping through a field configured to use an assets fieldtype? You'll be getting asset variables.

Reaching into the cascade

Let's say you're on an entry's URL and you're looping through related entries. Within the loop, you'd have a {{ title }} which would be for the entry in that loop. But what if you want to get the {{ title }} from further up your view?

The current page scope

Variables for the current page will be aliased into a page array. You can access this any time by prefixing a variable with page:.

{{ related_posts }}
{{ title }} // The title of the entry in the loop.
{{ page:title }} // The title of the entry used when loading the URL.
{{ /related_posts }}

Explicitly defined scopes

You aren't limited to the page scope. You can use the {{ scope }} tag to take a "snapshot" of the variable context at any point of the template and use it for reference elsewhere.

For example, we can create a scope named stuff.

{{ scope:stuff }}
{{ title }}
 
{{ collection:blog }}
{{ title }} // The title of the entry in the loop.
{{ stuff:title }} // The title variable at the time the scope tag was used.
{{ /collection:blog }}
 
{{ /scope:stuff }}

Globals

You can create your own Global variables, which all get injected into the variable cascade, ready to be used in your views.

View front-matter

Inside Antlers views, you may define YAML front-matter. This may be a handy way to define variables without needing to add anything
to content or blueprints.

To access this data, prefix the variables with view:.

---
foo: bar
---
{{ view:foo }}
bar

Available Variables

The following groups of variables are available in your views, depending on their context.

Content

"Content" encompasses data types that can be mapped to a URL. These include Entries and Taxonomy Terms. Any time you encounter one of these, the following variables will be available, as well as any fields you've defined in the blueprint.

current_layout
current_template
edit_url
id
last_modified
permalink
published
slug
url

Entry

Entries have access to all the Content variables, and these:

collection
date
datestamp
datestring
has_timestamp
is_entry
order
order_type
timestamp

Term

Taxonomy terms have access to all the Content variables, and these:

entries_count
is_term
taxonomy

Asset

Assets have access to all the Content variables, and these:

basename
extension
filename
focus
focus_css
height
is_asset
is_image
path
size
size_bytes
size_gigabytes
size_kilobytes
size_megabytes
width
is_video

System

System variables are available at any time, regardless of whether the URL you are on is for content (eg. an Entry or Term) or if it has been created using a route.

config
csrf_field
csrf_token
current_layout
current_template
current_uri
current_url
environment
get
get_post
homepage
is_homepage
last_segment
logged_in
now
old
post
response_code
segment_x
site
sites
xml_header