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[Volcane]

hello,

I want to include variables from a remote http server. I could open it in php, parse it and then assign to variables.

What I thought would be kewl is to have the remote server output valid smary template and then use include to include that into my current template. The remote template would have some {assign var="name".....} statements.

Is this possible?

[messju]

if you really want this, write a "simple" resource plugin that does it (the timestamp-part is a nice task). see: http://smarty.php.net/manual/en/templates.from.elsewhere.php.

but be sure that the source you get your template-data from is a trusted one and that you employed a few countermeasures ( http://smarty.php.net/manual/en/variable.security.php ) when things go wrong.

[Volcane]

hello,

Thanks for your reply, the source is a box i maintain it has access to a DB there and I want it to output many variables for me. So thats kewl.

Thanks I will check out the resource things.