Variable

[Typon]

Is it somehow I can bind this code to a variable?

<?php if( $userdata['session_logged_in'] )
{
echo('Välkommen tillbaka');
}
else
{
echo('Logga in');
}
?>

What i want is to bind this to a variable so that i can put it in my template.
Plz help me. This is very important for me.

Is it also okey if i can bind a variable to "include another file".

[AstroTeg]

Instead of echoing the output, what not just store it in a variable? Like:

<?php 
$output = '';
if( $userdata['session_logged_in'] )
{
  $output = 'Välkommen tillbaka';
}
else
{
  $output = 'Logga in';
}
?> 

Now $output contains your message...

[Typon]

But if i have it in an include it doesn't help because then i need how to bind a $variable = "includefile". And i cant get that to work.

So that you understands.

---------template.tpl--------
I have a template(.tpl-file) with the design and in one place in that template i have written {CONTENT}, who is a call for a variable named content.

---------Index.php-----
In this file i includes the template with some special variables and then i binds the variable $CONTENT = '//all the text on this site".

So that is how my site works, but now to the problem. Somewhere on this site i want this code:

<?php if( $userdata['session_logged_in'] )
{
include('status.php');
}
else
{
include($phpbb_root_path . 'includes/home.'.$phpEx);
}
?>

---

1st: i can't put it in the template
2nd: I can't put it in the CONTENT-variable, it wont accept the code.
3rd. I have to make this code to a variable so that i can call for it from the template(otherwise the code will be placed in the wrong place)

Do you understand?

[AstroTeg]

Maybe I'm thinking too hard on this, but it appears you must pass a string to your template to have it tossed in where {CONTENT} is at. Then you're saying you want to include the functionality of the PHP code you have (which appears to be a user session check).

Trick is I'm not sure how your template system works to be able to grasp how you're going to work around it.

With your status.php include and other include, are you trying to get that template stuff into a variable you can put into {CONTENT} ?

[Typon]

no, that's the problem. I can't, because the variable wont take any php. Is it some way i can make a variable that takes php?

If it is, my problem is gone.

[Typon]

i mean like:

$variable = '<?php text...... ?>';

because if i do like that it wont work for me.. it only makes an error.

[Typon]

This is exactly what i want:

$variable = '<table width="98%" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
<tr>
<td width="70%" valign="top"> <table width="100%" height="100%" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="border: 1px solid #C7C8C9;">
<tr>
<td valign="top" bgcolor="#E0ECF4" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #E3E3E3;">
<?php if( $userdata['session_logged_in'] )
{
echo('Välkommen tillbaka');
}
else
{
echo('Logga in');
}
?>
<?php if( $userdata['session_logged_in'] )
{
echo($userdata['username']); echo('!');
}
else
{

}
?>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#F8F8F8">
<?php if( $userdata['session_logged_in'] )
{
include('status.php');
}
else
{
include($phpbb_root_path . 'includes/home.'.$phpEx);
}
?>
</td>
</tr>
</table></td>
</tr>
</table>';

[AstroTeg]

Interesting problem... Is this a template system you designed?

There's probably a lot of ways to go about doing this, but its a matter of finding one that will fit your needs and code.

When I do templates, I ONLY use include files for what I consider my "library files" or files that provide function/class functionality to my scripts (example: database and template routines are parked in an include file).

I then have a collection of HTML files with tokens or you could say variables my template system will recognize.

The trick is when you're handling your templates, you really need to have all your strings assembled and put together before you can swap out your tokens (like {CONTENT}).

As you're noticing, include() isn't cutting it for you. I have no idea what's in these files. But one approach is to use the file open/read functions available to PHP. Read the contents of the file into a string. Modify the string as needed afterwards. THEN parse your template and swap out {CONTENT}.

Using templates is a pretty good way of seperating the HTML from your PHP code...