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    copied!<p>I'm trying to set a variable in my local.xml file for my custom block:</p> <pre><code>&lt;layout&gt; &lt;!-- ... --&gt; &lt;page_homepage&gt; &lt;!-- ... --&gt; &lt;reference name="root"&gt; &lt;!-- ... --&gt; &lt;block type="core/template" name="home_page_sections" template="page/homepage/sections.phtml"&gt; &lt;block type="layout/carousel" name="featured_carousel"&gt; &lt;action method="setData"&gt; &lt;name&gt;filter_attribute&lt;/name&gt; &lt;value&gt;is_featured_product&lt;/value&gt; &lt;/action&gt; &lt;/block&gt; &lt;/block&gt; &lt;/reference&gt; &lt;/page_homepage&gt; &lt;/layout&gt; </code></pre> <p>But I am not getting the data on the other end in my controller:</p> <pre><code>class Foo_Layout_Block_Carousel extends Mage_Core_Block_Template { public function __construct() { parent::__construct(); $filterAttribute = $this-&gt;getFilterAttribute(); // Nothing $filterAttribute = $this-&gt;getData('filter_attribute'); // Nada // Alright, fine, what DO I have?! var_dump($this-&gt;getData()); // array(0) {} ... Argh! } } </code></pre> <p>From all my searching I've found that this really should work, but since it does not, I have a feeling I'm missing something obvious. Here is my layout module's configuration (I'm using a single module to define a homepage and any other blocks I need for the site):</p> <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0"?&gt; &lt;config&gt; &lt;modules&gt; &lt;Foo_Layout&gt; &lt;version&gt;0.1.0&lt;/version&gt; &lt;/Foo_Layout&gt; &lt;/modules&gt; &lt;global&gt; &lt;page&gt; &lt;layouts&gt; &lt;foo_homepage translate="label"&gt; &lt;label&gt;Homepage&lt;/label&gt; &lt;template&gt;page/homepage.phtml&lt;/template&gt; &lt;layout_handle&gt;page_homepage&lt;/layout_handle&gt; &lt;/foo_homepage&gt; &lt;/layouts&gt; &lt;/page&gt; &lt;blocks&gt; &lt;layout&gt; &lt;class&gt;Foo_Layout_Block&lt;/class&gt; &lt;/layout&gt; &lt;/blocks&gt; &lt;/global&gt; &lt;/config&gt; </code></pre>
 

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