[PHPTAL] Include templates

Sun Jun 10 23:28:47 CEST 2007

On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 08:51:06PM +0200, [BuKoX] wrote:
> Joshua Paine pisze:
> >You can do this:
> >
> ><metal:block define-macro="mymacro">
> >some text with <b>something bold</b>
> ></metal:block>

> Ok. But my structure of my site is different. I have header.html:

> and footer.html:
>
> I recieve exception in header.html that "Reached document end but 
> element stack not empty in:27" - last line in header.html. It's strange 
> becouse in Smarty it was very handy - I could include every template in 
> every place independent of template structure.
> How can include templates in this way?

You need to think about TAL a little differently than say html 
or php includes.  (You can't "include" snippets of html, each
template file needs to be a complete document, tags have to 
be matched, etc.)

Basically what I do is make a site wide wrap.xml document that looks
something like this.
------sample wrap-----
<html>
<head>
	[...]
</head>
<body>
	<div id='header'>
	<!--- header html -->
	</div>

	<div id='content' tal:content='structure: page_content' />

	<div id='header'>
	<!--- header html -->
	</div>
</body>
</html>
------end sample wrap-----

(Note "structure:", otherwise html tags in the 'page specific' body 
be escaped.)

Then for each individual page I setup and execute() the page specific 
template, and set it as $wrap->page_content.  (Actually done in a site
wide php file included as the last step of each page.)

Hope that helps.

Bob Black