Smarty

[dango]

Hi,

I am new to smarty.
Sometimes I have to use include_php from a template.

How can I pass a variable from the template to the php?

I know how to get the data back, with $this->assign
but, If I can't pass data to the function, I have to get 1 include file
per function, since I can't tell the include file which function I
need exactly...

thanks,

Dan.

[boots]

http://smarty.php.net/manual/en/api.get.template.vars.php

(but use $this instead of $smarty)

[dango]

How do I assign them from the template to the PHP ?



thanks again!

[mohrt]

What are these include_php functions for? Maybe this could be handled easier with plugin functions, so instead of:

{include_php file="my.php"}

You would have:

{my foo=$foo bar=$bar}

Then your parameters are readily available to your function.

[boots]

hmm. {assign} ?

The thing is, you're going about this a little back-asswards. Templates are data consumers, not producers. In general you never want to use {php} or {include_php} blocks in your template. Instead, use plugins and do your data setup from your controller scripts.

[dango]

The thing is I have very little time to finish my work,
and I didn't have time to try and understand how the plugin
thing works

the reason why I have templates that generate data is :

assume I have 4 tables, that have the same structure,
but the data inside is different foreach of them

so I call them from my main template (which is called from php file) :

{include file="8.tpl"}

and I want to have context X inside the template

{include file="8.tpl"}

but this time I want to have content Y inside

so I need to tell 8.tpl to show content X
and then show content Y
and I need to get this content from a database,

this is why I was thinking to :

include_php file from 8.tpl and tell it I need content X
then include_php file again from 8.tpl and tell it content Y this time

and then 8.tpl will call the php and ask for the right content.

So I understand from your answers I am messing things up , am I ?

I will be more than happy to hear if you have a better solution ?

thanks in advance for your time,

Dan.