Render a string instead of template file with Smarty

[Cobby]

Hi,

 

I have templates stored in a database that I want to render. At the moment I just generate a temporary file and write the contents of the database query to it, the display that temporary file.

 

<?php
$result = $db->query($sql);
file_put_contents('temp.tpl', $result['content']);
$smarty->display('temp.tpl');
?>

 

But I don't like doing this as it just seems so unecessary, instead I would rather be like:

 

<?php
$result = $db->query($sql);
$smarty->render($result['content']);
?>

 

Anyway to do that?

 

Cheers,

Cobby

[RichardRotterdam]

I assume these templates are files stored in some folder.

 

Why not get all the files (whether that is from a database or folder)

 

place them in an array and then do the random function

[Cobby]

I figured it out, Smarty supports resource plugins, so I created a text one.

Now I can just go:

 

<?php

$smarty->assign('aVar', 'World');
$tpl = 'Hello {$aVar}!';

$smarty->display("text:$tpl");
// Hello World!

?>