Stash segment for use on other page

Question

I want to save segment_3 for use on another page for each user, I think the following should work:

{exp:stash:set name="selected_category_url" scope="user" save="yes"}
   {exp:streeng slug="yes" lower="yes"}
     {segment_3_category_name}
   {/exp:streeng}x
{/exp:stash:set}

On next page:

{exp:stash:get name="selected_category_url" scope="user" save="yes"}

But this isn't working, I've tried various mixes of 'scope' 'user' in both tags, but no luck, what am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Make sure the tag you are capturing is actually parsed before you try to save the variable, otherwise you will capture the literal tag pair rather than its output:

{exp:stash:set name="selected_category_url" scope="user" save="yes" parse="yes"}
   {exp:streeng slug="yes" lower="yes"}
     {segment_3_category_name}
   {/exp:streeng}
{/exp:stash:set}

Get it like this:

{exp:stash:get name="selected_category_url" scope="user"}

Make sure you have $config['stash_cookie_enabled'] = TRUE in your config, otherwise the user scope will be unavailable.