use php in template? Topic is solved

[angels]

how can i use php in the template?

[nils73]

usually you can use php in smarty by using {php} echo "Hello World"; {/php} ... but as Patricia already pointed out, User Tags are much better here.

Regards,
Nils

[dan]

i'm trying to print the variable name to the template each time a user passes the name through a url string--to display a diifferent header image for each page. i've created a user friendly tag called {graphic_header} and placed it into the template. the php code i'm using is this (without tags. problem is, the variable name isn't printing to the page. any suggestions/help would be appreciated. thanks!

echo "$page";

[nils73]

I use this one on my pages:

global $gCms;
$thispage = '';
$thispage = $gCms->variables['page_name'];

Simply put this into your user-defined tag and it should work ...

Regards,
Nils

[dan]

pardon my stupidity. i pasted your code into my userdef tag. do i change [page_name] to something else. in my case $thispage is $page. doesnt seem to work. thanks anyway.

[nils73]

I am not quite sure whether $page is already taken by CMSMS ... I just created a user-defined tag called "labelme" and inserted the following code:

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global $gCms;
$thispage = '';
$thispage = $gCms->variables['page_name'];

echo $thispage;

Then you simply insert the following code (just for testing) into your template(s) body-element:

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<p>My page_name is: {labelme}</p>

If you now open any webpage, it should work. At least it does on my installation of CMSMS - tested only a few minutes ago. Good luck.

Regards,
Nils

[dan]

that worked. thanks Nils!!!!

[nils73]

Glad to hear that, dan. Good luck!