Invoking custom templates

[lightnb]

I created a new template called "forums_menu".


Then in the FORUMHOME template, I added $forums_menu, between the $header and $navbar templates:

$header
$forums_menu
$navbar


But it doesn't seem to work. Am I missing a step?

[Paul M]

Have you added some php somewhere to fetch the template into $forums_menu ?

[calorie]

Add the following as a plugin using the forumhome_complete hook:

eval('$forums_menu = "' . fetch_template('forums_menu') . '";');

[lightnb]

Got it working now. Thank you.

So basically the hooks are places in the vB PHP script where you can add custom PHP code?

[calorie]

Yep, exactly. :)

[lightnb]

Let's say I have a new template, and I want to call the contents of the template directly from a PHP file.

For example, I have myscript.php, and I want to be able to see the contents of 'my_template' when I go to 'www.mysite.com/myscript.php

How would you go about doing that?

I tried:

eval('print_output("' . fetch_template('my_template') . '");');

but Got:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: fetch_template() in /home/.sites/22/site13/web/livexchange/vbheader.php on line 68