PHP API code in template, php file, or somewhere else?

[petteyg359]

My current plugin template content:

PHP Code:

<?php
require_once('./eveitapi/class.api.php');
require_once('./eveitapi/class.charselect.php');
$api359 = new Api();
$api359->debug(false);
$api359->cache(true);
$api359->setCredentials($apiuser359,$apipass359);
$uchars359 = $api359->getCharacters();
$chars359 = CharSelect::getCharacters($uchars359);
$eveit359 = $chars359[0][charname];
var_dump($eveit359);
?>

On the display template, rather than showing the contents of $eveit359 (as I would expect it to from var_dump), it outputs the php script as plain text.

I tried changing the plugin template to a simple

PHP Code:

<?php
$eveit359 = "Hello";
var_dump($eveit359);
?>

and got no output.

PHP Code:

<?php
echo "Hello";
?>

also produces no output.

Not sure if what you meant was to use another variable in the plugin and display templates, but I tried

PHP Code:

<?php $testing359="test"; ?>

and $testing359 in the display template got no output.

Could the Api functions be causing a problem? The plain text script output starts with "debug(false); $api359->cache(true);" as if that first "->" is a problem.

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I just tried

PHP Code:

<?php
echo "<font color=white>Hello</font>";
?>

as the plugin template, and now the display template outputs the following in view source:

<?php
echo \"<font color=white>Hello</font>\";
?>

On the page it appears as Hello\"; ?>

If I change the double quotes to single quotes, output is blank.