passing an object from a main to a function xtemplate

padanaram

I am trying to pass an object to a function in php 4.2.2. I am also using xtemplate which allows me to seperate my php code from my html code. When I parse in the main loop of the program the information parses, but when I try to parse from within a function it does not parse.

I included an attachment of the x template class that allows me to seperate my html code from my php code.

This is my script.

<?php
include '../xtemplate/xtemplate.class.php';


function xtplTest(&$xtpl)
{
$message = "test";
$xtpl->assign('message', $message);
$xtpl->rparse('main.message');
}

function xtplTest1(&$xtpl)
{
$message1 = "test1";
$xtpl->assign('message1', $message1);
$xtpl->rparse('main.message1');
}

// main

$xtpl = new XTemplate ('index.htm');

xtplTest($xtpl);
xtplTest1($xtpl);

$message2 = "test2";
$xtpl->assign('message2', $message2);
$xtpl->rparse('main.message2');
$xtpl->parse('main');
$xtpl->out('main');
?>

This is my HTML code. The comment tags allow for parsing of individual blocks.

<!-- BEGIN: main -->
<html>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

<body>

<!-- BEGIN: message -->
{FILE xtplTest.xtpl}
<!-- END: message -->
<!-- BEGIN: message1 -->
{FILE xtplTest.xtpl}
<!-- END: message1 -->
<!-- BEGIN: message2 -->
{message2}
<!-- END: message2 -->

</body>
</html>
<!-- END: main -->

This is my xtplTest.xtpl file.

{message}{message1)

padanaram

I trying to figure out why my blocks are not parsing. I am not sure if it because of the way I am passing my variables or if it is because I can't parse blocks in individual functions. I saw an example in PHP where they use templates and they are passing their variables the same way I am. But the difference is that when they parse their blocks they are not parsing an entire HTML page. They are only parsing a part of the page that exists within the body tag. The other difference is that they are not parsing sub blocks and that they are using a different templating engine.

When I parse my blocks I parse a main block and then sub blocks within the main block.

I was looking at my php.ini file and am not forcing myself to pass variables by reference. Here is the option in my php.ini file that handles passing by reference or by value.

allow_call_time_pass_reference = On

Is there a difference in my code if i set this option off.