Issue with multiple sidebars

[camiloclc]

I'm trying to add dynamically created sidebars to a theme I'm developing, so I can't know how some of these sidebars will be called. I also have sidebars which I can identify normally, but I don't want to create several sidebar-(x).php which would all be very simple and identical (they'd only call dynamic_sidebar(x)). Actually, in most themes I create I end up using the same code for several sidebars.

I'm facing two issues here:

1 - I can't get the current sidebar name in the default sidebar.php template file
I worked around this by setting a global variable which is assigned the current sidebar name when the get_sidebar action is fired. Then I call dynamic_sidebar with this variable as the parameter.

2 - load_template() doesn't load a template twice
Either load_template calls require instead of require_once or get_sidebar() gets a change like the one that was done with get_search_form() in ticket 9908 , where the require was moved inside the get_search_form() function.
Like the search form template, the sidebar template is one which may be called multiple times. Maybe the 2nd option would be a better fit.

[scribu]

Try asking for help on the wp-hackers mailing list first.

Reopen the ticket when you have a concrete proposal, or create a ticket that points to a clear problem.