Smarty

[misterm]

Hi

I wonder if anyone can help?

I am setting up a smarty shopping cart I have bought and the following tweak falls outside of the products support.

I have a variable $product.ID which is set when any product page is displayed. In this case the product is a misic CD.

Most of these CDs have a small mp3 sample that I want to play on each product page.

What I would like to do is say: include a file exists for this product id, otherwise, do nothing.

In this example my $product.ID is 5, so I want to dynamically include a template file that contains my player from a directory with the name matching my $product.ID

I am trying this:

{if ($smarty->template_exists("soundbites/$product.ID/player.tpl")) {
$smarty->display("soundbites/$product.ID/player.tpl");
}
{/if}

but I can't seem to get it to work :/

I also tried a simpler option:

{include file="soundbites/$product.ID/player.tpl"}

Which again won't work.
I know the path is correct as this works if I hard code the productt ID:

{include file="soundbites/5/player.tpl"}

I just can't seem to simply get the variable to print its value in the path dynamically.




Any help would be much appreciated.

Mr M

[douglassdavis]

This would have been useful to me too at one point, so I'm curious about this one too.

[elpmis]

Have you tried something like this?

[douglassdavis]

[elpmis]

The request was

[misterm]

Thanks for the reply elpmis

That prints the correct location to screen including the $product.ID :

soundbites/5/player.tpl

But it's only printing the path to the file and not including the actual file.

I've had a play with it but can't figure this last bit out.

Many thanks

Mr M

[elpmis]

[douglassdavis]

[misterm]

The file definitely exists.

If I try:

{include file="soundbites/5/player.tpl"}

the file is brought in and rendered correctly.

Player.tpl is just a few lines of text at the moment, it will eventually hold a small flash mp3 player.

To be honest, i think all I need is something like:

{include file="soundbites/".{$product.ID}."/player.tpl"}

But I can't seem to get the syntax right to render the $product.ID

[mohrt]

[douglassdavis]

[misterm]

Thanks for the suggestion, but it still doesn't work.

Damn

I guess to test that the file exists all i need to do is:

{include file="soundbites/5/player.tpl"}

which does bring in the content of tpl file in that folder.

Why wouldn't this work? :

{include file="soundbites/`$product.ID`/player.tpl"}

Do I have to write the full path as a variable?
That's how I got this working on a different site in plain php (no smarty):

$rightNavAd="content/ads/rightNav/"."$xsubcatid".".php";
if (file_exists($rightNavAd)) { include ($rightNavAd); }

Does anyone know the smarty equivalent?

many thaks again for the help

[misterm]

Just realised that's what:

{capture assign='player'}soundbites/{$product.ID}/player.tpl{/capture}

is successfully doing.

So why won't this work:

{capture assign='player'}soundbites/{$product.ID}/player.tpl{/capture}
{if $player|file_exists eq ''}
{include file='$player'}
{eval var=$player}
{/if}

[mohrt]

Smarty filepaths for {include} are always relative to the template_dir. PHP's function file_exists() is not going to respect the template_dir filepath.

Maybe try making a modifier:

[BbErSeRkK]

I'm a bit slow,
tried to follow monty's example but had to do it this way: