Hi Gang, I've been tasked with skinning a new 'static' site, and I'd like to use PHPTAL to clean up my re-use of HTML, instead of just relying on SSIs or repeating code over several HTML files.
I figured I would create a master template, and then use several smaller templates to insert relevant html and variables into the master template. So, I've created a master template using metal:define-macro: > [template.html] > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="en" lang="en" > metal:define-macro="master"> > <head> > <title>Client</title> > <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css/screen.css" > media="screen, projection, tv" /> > </head> > <body> > [...] > <div id="content" name="content" > metal:define-slot="content"></div> > [...] > </body> > </html> > and then define a page view as such, using metal:use-macro: > [index.html] > <html metal:use-macro="template.html/master"> > <body> > <div id="content" name="content" metal:fill-slot="content"> > <h2>Welcome to Client</h2> > </div> > </body> > </html> > Then I created a PHP file to invoke the PHPTAL template and use the index.html file as its template: > [index.php] > <?php > require_once 'lib/PHPTAL.php'; > $template = new PHPTAL('index.html'); > try { > echo $template->execute(); > } > catch (Exception $e){ > echo $e; > } > ?> > So far, this is working great - my <h2> appears inside my master template at the right node. *Problems with variables* Now I want to start defining variables per page, that the master template will use. E.g. a <title> suffix, or attaching a class to the <body> element. So, in index.php I added the body_class and title_suffix variables: > [index.php] > <?php > require_once 'lib/PHPTAL.php'; > $template = new PHPTAL('index.html'); > > $body_class = 'home'; > $title_suffix = ' - Home'; > > try { > echo $template->execute(); > } > catch (Exception $e){ > echo $e; > } > ?> > And then made the suitable changes to my master template: > [template.html] > <title>Client<tal:block tal:content="title_suffix"/></title> > Now when I hit /index.php I get the following error: > exception 'PHPTAL_VariableNotFoundException' with message 'Unable to find > variable 'title_suffix' in current scope' So, 3 questions: 1. How and where should I define global variables that'll be used by the master template? 2. How do I get variables defined by the calling template to be used by the master template? 3. Or is there a better way to approach all this? Thanks for your time and help! Shaun P.S. I'm a PHP newb.
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