Problem with PHPLib Templates?

Anon

I am trying to follow the demo code and documentation for the Template class in PHPLib, and the set_block function seems to be behaving badly. When I call:

$template->set_block("RESULTS","ROW");

the block is replaced with the text "ROW", instead of the variable reference "{ROW}". In fact the only way I can get this to work as documented is to do this:

$template->set_block("RESULTS", "ROW", "{ROW}");

which seems both kludgy and possibly something that will break when this bug (?) is fixed in PHP4...

Can anyone see the error of my ways? I am new to PHP, so it's very possible I'm doing something boneheaded here.

Jason

Anon

This reply is over 8 months late but since I found this thread while searching for an answer to the problem I'll post the solution I found here for future searchers 🙂

For the interest of those also affected by this problem, the solution is to
edit template.inc and replace this line:

I found the following in the phpLib mailing list archive (searched via google):

http://www.phpbuilder.com/mail/phplib-list/2000112/0008.php

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For the interest of those also affected by this problem, the solution is to
edit template.inc and replace this line:

$str = preg_replace($reg, "{$name}", $str);

with this one:

$str = preg_replace($reg, "\{$name}", $str);

It appears this is a quirk of PHP4, as mentioned in the TODO.

Regards,

Ollie

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Hope that helps someone out :o)

Cheers,

Simon

sarahk

Hi Simon, it took another 3 months and quite a few hours of wondering why I was so thick it wouldn't work. I'm really glad you made the effort.
Sarah 🙂

Anon

many moons later, this prob occurred to my site when our host [finally] converted to php 4.0+.

thx for the fix, simon -- and to whomever came up with it originally.

spirits,

seth