template.inc problems...

Anon

I'm having problems getting template.inc from phplib to work. The class seems to be having problems locating the template to process. I'm getting the error:

Template Error: filename: file c:\/c:\/new_1.htm does not exist.
Halted.

... where new_1.htm is the template. It looks as though the class is appending a forward slash which is probably why it isn't working on my win98 workstation. Does anyone no a way around this? TIA,

Sasha K

Anon

From my experience I gather that's just what php does to paths on windoze.

I think (think is underlined and in italic) that the template file new_1.htm needs to be in a directory higher than the file which uses template.inc to call that template.

eg:

c:\dev\site\index.php3
includes
c:\dev\site\template.inc
which calls
c:\dev\site\templates\new_1.htm
or
c:\dev\site\t\new_1.htm
but can't
c:\dev\new_1.htm

Try that let me know what happens. I'm probably wrong because my solution isn't exactly logical....

Billy

Anon

The forward slash translates correctly in windows...that's not the problem.

The problem you have here is you're getting c:\c:\new_1.htm

I found the easiest way to work with the template class is by setting a default path in the constructor for Template and having sub dirs for different pages as appropriate:

$t = new Template; ## e.g. default = c:\test\
$t -> set_file ("ack", "page1/body.ihtml");

will load c:\test\page1\body.ihtml into template var ack.

There were several bugs in the template class for phplib releases prior to the current one. Make sure you use the most recent phplib for a good template script.