Limited PHP scripts functionality for templates v1.0
 

Hello all !

Here is small funny hack (5 strings of new code only in one script :) That may help to bring more power to vb templates :)
Features:
- executing php scripts (with modified syntax) from templates. Changing\creating php variables from templates, conditional actions and database requests without editing scripts.
It is all :)

PS changes in 1.1
- normal php variables syntax (with $)
- added example of database request from template
- support for several PHP blocks in one template

hey, looks nice :)

Indeed this looks very nice.

But what if a template is called by more than one file?

- miSt

then why not to use some condition checking #PHP_SELF in template code ?

he got u there mist ;)
Looking nice JohnWooo
I will check it out when I get home

Interesting, but for organizational methods I like to keep PHP separate from the templates :p

Organizational?
Well I would use this in a case of when I am lazy to add 3 lines of code that do 1 thing one 1 page.

So it would be pretty useful in my caze :)

hmm seems not to be working correctly :(
I was trying to pull out the the filesize attachments
It gets printed at left top corner page and not right after attachment :confused:

It is "limited functionality". Remember? :) echo will not work - sorry :) Try to replace echo with return.

nice. we should release template mods with this(they might like this on www.vbulletintemplates.com to.

@Velo: yeh, but sometimes this can be usefull to, if you just want to calculate some values (ppd directly in the template instead of the code)

Hmm... The 1.1 zip seems to be empty...

Updated :)
It downloads fine for me (and before it was fine too)

We have our own wrapper that works from the phpinclude template. Its a bit more work to code with it but it keeps us from hacking files. We have many of the hacks here working with only the phpinclude.

But phpinclude will be executed on any page of forum, and think that it is not good :)

Acully no. for example this would only be ran on index.php, The query it exucutes will only be done on that page, its ignored on all others.

Nice Idea;)

@Anime-loo - Wouldn't "$DB_site->query" be better?

Satan

Yes. It is another way. But what if you need to execute some code inside some loop ? :) Think that for example calculating something different for each post on showthread.php must be impossible using phpinclude only...

yes, i was only showing a example ;) this would be the correct useage if you where ganna show the result of the query on index.php

$query=$DB_site->query_frist

also it's not good to expand the phpinclude template such a lot.
rembember it's loaded on everypage, also if everything is in an if-clause it has to be loaded and so on.