Creating PHP files that go directly to templates

How do you do this?

I want a PHP file that will go directly to a template

And the template will use stuff from the database like amount of posts and newest member, sessionhash-ed links etc.

The file would do nothing apart from display the thing in the template!

What the PHP code?

I tried one, and it went to the template, but did not display any variable stuff,

eg - it said "Registered Members:
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You last visited: 03-25-2001 02:22 PM.
The time now is 02:22 PM. .
Welcome to our newest member, ."

That was just using this code:

<?

$templatesused = "newtemplate";
require("./global.php");


eval("dooutput(\"".gettemplate("newtemplate")."\");");

?>

How do I do it???

Thanx in advance

when you're included php file generates some variables like

$newestmember etc..

Then you can reference to them in the template

So if you have:

<?

$templatesused = "newtemplate";
require("./global.php");

$bla = "123";

eval("dooutput(\"".gettemplate("newtemplate")."\") ;");

?>

Then you can reference to $bla in your template....Or if you have a separate php file which contains $bla and you include this file before evaluating the template you can do exact the same thing...

Evaluate does just evaluating the content of a template as if it was php code...so every $variable in the template is parsed with their corresponding variable...

Thanx for ya help

What I now need to know is how to enter variable details like amount of members and connecting to the database....

if you include global.php you don't need to connect to the database....

use a code like this:

$query = "SELECT <fields> FROM <tables>";

$result = $DB_site->query($query);

while($row = $DB_site->fetch_array($result))
{ doSomeStuff();
}