$template-&gt;loadTemplatefile

$template->loadTemplatefile

cac818

I'm writing code that is straight from a PHP coding book. In the examples, there are template files that are referenced both within the PEAR extensions and ones that I
create. In one of the examples, there's a

$template->loadTemplatefile("example8.3.tpl", true, true);

and when I click Submit on a form, it is supposed to bring up this template file with the information. But this is not working, there's nothing that shows up. The entry is in the database but the template file does not show up.

The code is the following:

<?php
require "db_login.php";
require_once "HTML/Template/ITX.php";

//echo( "GET Array: "); 
//print_r($_GET); 

if (!empty($_GET["surname"]) &&
	!empty($_GET["firstname"]) &&
	!empty($_GET["phone"]))

{
	if (!($connection = @ mysql_connect("$db_host", "$db_username", "$db_password")))
	die("Could not connect to the database.");

$surname = mysqlclean($_GET, "surname", 50, $connection);
$firstname = mysqlclean($_GET, "firstname", 50, $connection);
$phone = mysqlclean($_GET, "phone", 20, $connection);

if (!mysql_select_db("$db_database", $connection))
showerror();

$query = "INSERT INTO phonebook VALUES (NULL, '{$surname}', '{$firstname}', '{$phone}')";
//$query = "INSERT INTO phonebook VALUES (NULL, '" . $_GET['surname'] . "', '" . $GET['firstname'] . "', " . $_GET['phone'] . ")";

if (!(@mysql_query($query, $connection)))
showerror();

$template = new HTML_Template_ITX("./templates");
$template->loadTemplatefile("example8-3.tpl", true, true);
$template->setCurrentBlock();
$template->setVariable("SURNAME", $surname);
$template->setVariable("FIRSTNAME", $firstname);
$template->setVariable("PHONE", $phone);
$template->parseCurrentBlock();

$template->show();
}
else
header("Location: example8-1.html");
?>

and the template file is the following:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC
                 "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
                 "http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
  <title>Added a Phonebook Entry</title>
  </head>
<body>
<h1>Added a Phonebook Entry</h1>
<table>
<tr>
	<td>Surname:
	<td>{SURNAME}
</tr>
<tr>
	<td>First Name:
	<td>{FIRSTNAME}
</tr>
<tr>
	<td>Phone number:
	<td>{PHONE}
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

knowj

Stupid question but is error_reporting set to display all errors?

cac818

I added this to the code of the .php file and the .tpl file but neither returned errors.

error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors', 1);

cac818

Seems like this is something that's very basic that I'm missing because I brought up a .tpl file in my web browser and ran it through Firefox and the template file came up as with just the structure of the template file (without any values passed from PHP).

cac818

When I click submit, it doesn't redirect to the .tpl file, the URL string just adds on the name as in if I were adding a name and phone number it shows this upon Submit:

http://example/example.php?surname=Lincoln&firstname=Abraham&phone=+1144333030339

when the .php file asks it to load the .tpl file, it seems like it stops with the above URL instead of loading the template file with the information.