[PHPTAL] Grabbing the METAL template from an object

[Eric Bartels]

Hi,

are you within the same template file? What does fail mean?
Can you give an error message?

Eric

Ken Restivo wrote:
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> I vaguely remember seeing some very simple way to include a macro from an object. I remember thinking, "Wow, that reminds me of lisp macros, I could use that some day".
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> Well, that day is now. It turns out I definitely need this functionality, and I can't find the reference to where I saw how to invoke it.
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> Basically, the METAL template will be in the database, so users can edit it with a WYSIWYG editor. I fish the user-edited template out of the database, and now I have to get PHPTAL to use it.
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> My naive attempt-- which failed-- was:
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>     <div metal:define-macro="main_body_macro" 
>          tal:content="structure page/thank_you_notes/obj/main_body"></div>
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>         <div metal:use-macro="main_body_macro"></div>
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> Which of course failed. How should I be doing this? 
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