get source from tpl

[pneudralics]

How do you make a variable to display a .tpl file on a php page? I want a certain tpl file to display in a table.

[Houdini]

Just how large is the .tpl file I mean if it is just a few short lines you could do like

$stuff="Whatever stuff there is in the template file that has no telling what in it and goes on for no telling how long and might have other variables and such within it with all kinds of html code or javascript stuff";

then

echo $stuff;

But since I am not really sure just what it is you are wanting to do then that's about all I can teel you right now.

[pneudralics]

I want to put a variable like $tpl = whatever tpl file.
I want to just edit the tpl file but have the variable to the tpl file inside my php page.

[Houdini]

Try using this function file_get_contents()

[pneudralics]

$test = file_get_contents("".$VAR[5]."/test.tpl");

Perfect....but the problem is I'm trying to display the tpl page's call's to variables. For example now it displays: {%THEVARIABLE%} instead of showing the variable, which is what I want to do.

[Houdini]

May be file() would be better, it will put the whole file into an array and you could use implode() to output it.

Try something like this

$var = implode('', file('somefile.tpl'));
echo $var;

[thorpe]

What you are looking for is a template system. You need to write a parser to parse these {%THEVARIABLE%} type variables.

It could be as simple as...

<?php

  $replacewith = 'foo';
  $template = file_get_contents("template.tpl");
  $template = str_replace('{%THEVARIABLE%}',$replacewith,$template);
  echo $template;

?>

Or obviously alot more complex. These templates you speak of are not a php feature, you need to build all this yourself or downlaod a template parser/system/engine.