PHP code in ECHO

[jubba890]

In index.php I have this code

<?php
$HTML = str_replace('{$template}', 'TEMPLATES/' . $template, file_get_contents('TEMPLATES/' . $template . '/index.tpl'));
 echo $HTML;
?>

so everytime I call {$template} it replaces it with the directory, this works and all until I need PHP in my template.

 

How can I get PHP code to execute so say if I have this in my template

<?php
echo "Test";
?>

It will show Test instead of the whole code, thanks!

[CroNiX]

try naming it index.php instead of index.tpl.  Or add a AddType handler to your apache.conf (assuming you're using apache) and allow the .tpl extension to be processed as php.

[jubba890]

try naming it index.php instead of index.tpl.  Or add a AddType handler to your apache.conf (assuming you're using apache) and allow the .tpl extension to be processed as php.

 

It's a template system so I don't want it .php

[requinix]

Use include() to actually execute the code. You can use output buffering to capture the output of the script and run the templating logic on that too.

/**
 * Run a file through the templating system
 *
 * @param string $file
 * @param mixed[] $vars
 */
function template() {
	// using func_get_args() to avoid problems with overwriting variables
	extract(func_get_arg(1) ?: array());

	ob_start();
	include func_get_arg(0);
	$content = ob_get_clean();

	foreach ((func_get_arg(1) ?: array()) as $key => $value) {
		$content = str_replace('{$' . $key . '}', $value, $content);
	}
	return $content;
}

$HTML = template('TEMPLATES/' . $template . '/index.tpl', array(
	'template' => 'TEMPLATES/' . $template
));

<p>Template: template = {$template}</p>
<p>PHP: template = <?=$template?></p>

Just make sure, absolutely sure, your templates don't have any unwanted PHP code in them. Or anything that looks like PHP code.