Template Variables?

move3rd

Hi,

I need to asign a section of code that would normaly output html code via the echo command to a variable to so that I can then use that variable with "ultratemplate" a template system.

Here's my script:

<?
// Fill Select Menu With Artists  

while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
  {

$select_artist = "<option value='".$row['artist']."'>".$row['artist']."</option>";
   }                           


include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/junglejar/templates/ultratemplate.php");

$oTemplate = new UltraTemplate();
$oTemplate->load($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/junglejar/templates/admin/index.php");
$oTemplate->tag("select_artist","$select_artist");
$oTemplate->display(); ?>

The above does not work. How can I get this to work?

Thanks

move3rd

Can anyone help?

I'm really lost with this. 🙁

move3rd

I know I have it all rong here. Could anyone point me in the right direction?

weekender

firstly, you are looping through the mysql resultset - each time you loop, you overwrite the variable $select_artist. amend this by making it .=

$select_artist = "";
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
     $select_artist .= "<option value='".$row['artist']."'>".$row['artist']."</option>";      

}

second, you may want to look at output buffering in the php manual. Output buffering captures all the output, ie

ob_start(); // start buffering
echo "This will go into the buffer"; // echos will go into buffer
echo "Which will then be put into the variable";
$output = ob_get_contents(); // put the buffered data into $output
ob_flush(); // end the buffer

hope that helps

adam

move3rd

Thanks!

That helps allot. 🙂

move3rd

This code works but it's outputting the varibale twice. How can I stop it from doing that?

<?
$select_artist = ""; 
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) 
{ 
     $select_artist .= "<option value='".$row['artist']."'>".$row['artist']."</option>";       

}                 

include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/junglejar/templates/ultratemplate.php");

$oTemplate = new UltraTemplate();
$oTemplate->load($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/junglejar/templates/admin/index.php");
$oTemplate->tag("select_artist","$select_artist");
$oTemplate->display();
 ?>

move3rd

Hi me again!

It was an error in my template code causing the problem.

thanks