what do you mean by passing variables to a template? You can use any number of variables within a template, assuming the variables exist in the php script from which the template is called
Thank you for the quick response. That's what I was thinking, but for some reason, when I'm passing more than one, I get an IE "Unspecified error" message.
Here's a copy of the php script:
<?php
// Get a file into an array. In this example we'll go through HTTP to get
// the HTML source of a URL.
// This file is a listing of all thumbnail gifs with full path
// X:\FTP\MYPICS\YYMMDDXX.B\THUMBS\FILENAME.GIF
$fileArray = file('http://pics.huntsvillecarscene.com/events/testfile');
// Counts total number of lines in file to determine how many total pictures
$totalPics = count($fileArray);
//print "$totalPics\n";
// Line number of random line from file
$randomArray = array_rand($fileArray);
//print "$randomArray\n";
//print "$fileArray[$randomArray]\n";
// Truncates the first 14 and last 21 characters to eliminate the path
$picDirectory = substr($fileArray[$randomArray], 14, -22);
//print "$picDirectory\n";
// Get the root of the pic filename
$picFilename = substr(strchr($fileArray[$randomArray], "\\"),strrpos($fileArray[$randomArray], "\\")-1,-6);
//print $picFilename;
eval('$home[$mods[\'modid\']][\'content\'] .= "' . fetch_template('adv_portal_randomevent') . '";');
?>
And then this is the html in the template:
<table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" class="tborder" width="100%">
<tr>
<td class="tcat"><span class="smallfont"><b>$vba_options[portal_blockbullet] Random Event Pic</b></span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="$getbgrow" width="100%">
<!-- Begin custom code -->
<center>
<!--
<img src="http://pics.huntsvillecarscene.com/events/$picDirectory/thumbs/$picFilename.gif">
-->
Pic $randomArray of $totalPics total pics on the server.
</center>
<!-- End custom code -->
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<br />
The whole thing is designed to pull random images off my picture server, which is only a win95 system running a very tiny and basic web server that does the job. There's over 5gb of pictures which I don't want to move into vb, but that I still can link to. I'm using this in conjunction with vbadvanced cmps for a module. Any help will be appreciated. I really wanted to finish this by today.