Textstem globals are items of content available anywhere at anytime. There are several different types of global, including -
Globals can be accessed in your app via the Textstem facade:
$value = Textstem::globalVar('my-key');They are also available in your blade templates via the $globals variable:
{{ $globals['my-key'] }}They are also available in blocks of content using the wranger template command 'get'
{wrt get 'my-key'}X-Articles are a special template components designed to work with globals. They are used to enable CMS administrators to edit chunks of text that are included in templates or other components (such as a company address that appears in the footer of each page, or the prompt for a sign-up form). Essentially they are globally available variables that can be defined in templates using the component.
For example, a template may have some markup like this in the footer
Sign up to our newsletter
When creating templates for the site, developers can wrap the editable text in an component like this:
Sign up to our newsletter
The first time the page is viewed and this template is rendered, a global will be created with the key "signup-prompt" and the html value "Sign up to our newsletter". This text can now be edited in the admin system