Smarty Display Function

[dimitri320]

How it is possible to use the display() function and display templates which are located on some other server, for instance at www.some-domain.com/templates/index.tpl.

 

When loading templates from anywhere on the host server then we do:

 

&smarty->display("file:usr/local/....index.tpl")

 

Is there something like file: when loading templates from outside your host server??

 

Thanks!!!!!!

[premiso]

Is there a reason you do not just download the remote template file and save it to your server to access from there?

[dimitri320]

No really, it's the exact opposite, I'm sending my templates out, and leaving the PHP on my server and need to access the templates on the remote server. It's for development purposes.

 

[premiso]

Well the only way I could think of doing this with smarty, is you either need to pass it as a string (so use file_get_contents or cURL) to retrieve the data or write the file to a file on your server. Which can be done with the fopen functions coupled with file_get_contents / cURL.

 

I do think you can pass a string to Smarty to parse but I am unsure how to do that and would referrer you to the Smarty Forums / Documentation.

[dimitri320]

Thanks a lot, it works like a charm, here's the code in case you'll ever need to have such a setup:

 

$resource_name_url = 'http://www.yourdomain.com/';

$file_contents = file_get_contents($resource_name_url.$resource_name);

$path = 'C:/www/YourProject/'.$resource_name;

$fh = fopen($path, 'w+') or die("can't open file");

$stringData = $file_contents;

fwrite($fh, $stringData) or die("cant't write to file");

fclose($fh);