[Resolved] Template Class Help

[NateDawg]

Yes I do know that 🙂

I still need help replacing the text in one file with the other looping file 🙁

[rehfeld]

i edited it. is that what your talking about?

[NateDawg]

I never thought about loading the news template first. Anyway that seems to be what I need but I'm getting an error 🙁

Fatal error: Call to a member function get_contents() on a non-object in C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs\news\index.php on line 94

line 94 is ...
$replacement = $news_template->get_contents();

Can I get some help with this too please?

[rehfeld]

does the variable $news_template exist?

you need to have
$news_template = new template();
before trying to use it.

[NateDawg]

Your right I needed to make $news_template = new template();

But this dosn't give me the results I wanted. The suggested code above outputs the news.tpl file with the replacements and then the main.tpl file after it with the replacements. I need the replacements to be made to both files and then have the text in main.tpl be raplaced with news.tpl(with the replacements)

[rehfeld]

Originally posted by NateDawg


I need the replacements to be made to both files and then have the text in main.tpl be raplaced with news.tpl(with the replacements)

thats exactly what the example i provided does.

take a closer look at what i posted.

it sounds like your doing this

$replacement = $news_template->publish(); 

instead of what i showed you to do

$replacement = $news_template->get_contents(); 

this is the exact reason i said to add the get_contents() method

if you still cant figure it out, post your code.

[NateDawg]

OK this is the template class

I renamed get_contents() to contents()

I worked with the code a bit and now the templates are replacing each other ok but instead of showing all of the results from my news query it only shows the last result.

class template {

   private $template;
   function load($filepath) {
      $this->template = file_get_contents($filepath);
      $this->template = ereg_replace("<!-- START COMMENTS -->(.*\s*)<!-- END COMMENTS -->", "",
      $this->template);
   }


   function contents() {
    return $this->template;
	}

   function replace($var, $content) {
      $this->template = str_ireplace("<#$var#>", $content, $this->template);
   }

   function publish() {
      echo $this->template;
      }
}

Here is the code in the while loop

$template = new template;

$template->load("template/news_tpl.html");

$template->replace("member_name", "$member_name");

$template->replace("website", "$member_website");

And this is the final code that calls the main template and echos the output.

$main_template = new template();
$main_template->load("template/main_tpl.html");
$replacement = $template->contents();
$main_template->replace("CONTENT", $replacement);

$main_template->publish();

[NateDawg]

I still need some help getting the news template to loop 🙁

[NateDawg]

Anyone?

[rehfeld]

$main_template = new template();
$main_template->load("template/main_tpl.html"); 


loop () {

$template = new template;
$template->load("template/news_tpl.html");

$template->replace("member_name", "$member_name");

$template->replace("website", "$member_website");

// now we add the result to our main template so it doesnt get lost on the next loop iteration
$main_template->replace($some_var, $template->contents());


}

[NateDawg]

OK I finally found a solution! Thanks for all you help rehfeld.

//At the top....

$main_template = new template();
$main_template->load("template/main_tpl.html");


//The code in the loop

while{

$template = new template;
	$template->load("template/news_tpl.html");
	$template->replace("member_name", "$member_name");
	$template->replace("website", "$member_website");

//THIS PART IS THE KEY
$replacement .= $template->contents();

}

//And at the end publish it 

$main_template->replace("CONTENT", "$replacement");
$main_template->publish();