call php from templates

Daniel_74

Hello,

I know of some template engines like Smarty, and so on.
But I decided not to use them, as I would prefer to hold the coding as simple as possible and I do not need that huge amount of functions.

So I am trying to do this

I have a index.php file where I call a template:
include ('../Templates/cv24.tpl');

then I have in the template html code this one: {Last_Links}

in the index.php file I have:

$Last_Links = '<table width="26%" border="0">
<tr>
<td width="31%"><?php do { ?>
<table width="80%" border="0">
<tr>
<td><a title="<?php echo $row_RecordsetLast["ESPTitle"]; ?>"
href="<?php echo $row_RecordsetLast["URL"]; ?>" class="cv24"><?php echo
(++$startRow_RecordsetLast) ?> <?php echo $row_RecordsetLast["ESPTitle"];
?></a></td>
</tr>
</table>
<?php } while ($row_RecordsetLast =
mysql_fetch_assoc($RecordsetLast)); ?></td>
</tr>
</table>';

What must I do in order to display $Last_Links inside the cv24.tpl file with
{Last_Links} ?
Do I have to regisser the variable somewehre? How ? where ?
Please point me in the right direction, what I would need to do to define {Last_Links} used in the template to the php code defined as $Last_Links

Any help much appreciated !
Daniel

thorpe

Im sorry, but theres not much sense in your question. The code youv'e posted has nested php inside it. This will not work. Maybe the [man]eval/man function is what your looking for, but this all seems a little messy to me.

Daniel_74

Hello,

imagine the following situation:

I have a html template where I apply my php code to.

Now I see that I have lots of same php-code-modules, like the part I wrote above.

I want to include this inside the template, I am sure it works, I have seen this on some advanced php apps, like phpbb, but they have a very complicated template system that would be too much for my case.

Thanks for your efforts.
Any more ideas?

Daniel

Daniel_74

For example I have found that phpbb Forums use the same technique:

in de forum index.php you have this php with nested html:

if ( $userdata['session_logged_in'] ) {
$NEWEST_USER=sprintf($lang['Newest_user'], '<a href="' . append_sid("profile.$phpEx?mode=viewprofile&" . POST_USERS_URL . "=$newest_uid") . '">', $newest_user, '</a>');
} else {
$NEWEST_USER=sprintf($lang['Newest_user'], '', $newest_user,'');
}

in the corresponding .tpl file index_bod.tpl
you have this for calling the above code: {NEWEST_USER}

Also there a snippet that defines this:
$template->assign_vars(array(
'NEWEST_USER' => $NEWEST_USER
);

The problem is that I do not understand what they do with $template and in my particular case I would only want to have {xxxx} asigned to my php/html snippet $xxxx

Anyone can help ?
Regards,
Daniel