smarty/docs/en/designers/language-builtin-functions/language-function-include-php.xml

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		<sect1 id="language.function.include.php">
			<title>include_php</title>
            <informaltable frame="all">
                <tgroup cols="5">
                <colspec colname="param" align="center" />
                <colspec colname="type" align="center" />
                <colspec colname="required" align="center" />
                <colspec colname="default" align="center" />
                <colspec colname="desc" />
                <thead>
                    <row>
                        <entry>Attribute Name</entry>
                        <entry>Type</entry>
                        <entry>Required</entry>
                        <entry>Default</entry>
                        <entry>Description</entry>
                    </row>
                </thead>
                <tbody>
                    <row>
                        <entry>file</entry>
                        <entry>string</entry>
                        <entry>Yes</entry>
                        <entry><emphasis>n/a</emphasis></entry>
                        <entry>The name of the php file to include</entry>
                    </row>
                    <row>
                        <entry>once</entry>
                        <entry>boolean</entry>
                        <entry>No</entry>
                        <entry><emphasis>true</emphasis></entry>
                        <entry>whether or not to include the php file more than
						once if included multiple times</entry>
                    </row>
                    <row>
                        <entry>assign</entry>
                        <entry>string</entry>
                        <entry>No</entry>
                        <entry><emphasis>n/a</emphasis></entry>
                        <entry>The name of the variable that the output of
						include_php will be assigned to</entry>
                    </row>
                </tbody>
                </tgroup>
            </informaltable>
	        <note>
	        <title>Technical Note</title>
            <para>
            include_php is pretty much deprecated from Smarty, you can
            accomplish the same functionality via a custom template function.
            The only reason to use include_php is if you really have a need to
            quarantine the php function away from the plugin directory or your
            application code. See the <link
            linkend="tips.componentized.templates">componentized template
            example</link> for details.
            </para>
	        </note>
			<para>
			include_php tags are used to include a php script in your template.
			If security is enabled, then the php script must be located in the
			$trusted_dir path. The include_php tag must have the attribute
			"file", which contains the path to the included php file, either
			relative to $trusted_dir, or an absolute path.
			</para>
			<para>
			include_php is a nice way to handle componentized templates, and
			keep PHP code separate from the template files. Lets say you have a
			template that shows your site navigation, which is pulled
			dynamically from a database. You can keep your PHP logic that grabs
			database content in a separate directory, and include it at the top
			of the template. Now you can include this template anywhere without
			worrying if the database information was assigned by the application
			before hand.
			</para>
			<para>
			By default, php files are only included once even if called
			multiple times in the template. You can specify that it should be
			included every time with the <emphasis>once</emphasis> attribute.
			Setting once to false will include the php script each time it is
			included in the template.
			</para>
			<para>
			You can optionally pass the <emphasis>assign</emphasis> attribute,
			which will specify a template variable name that the output of
			<emphasis>include_php</emphasis> will be assigned to instead of
			displayed.
			</para>
			<para>
			The smarty object is available as $this within the PHP script that you
			include.
			</para>
<example>
<title>function include_php</title>
<programlisting>
load_nav.php
-------------

&lt;?php

	// load in variables from a mysql db and assign them to the template
	require_once("MySQL.class.php");
	$sql = new MySQL;
	$sql->query("select * from site_nav_sections order by name",SQL_ALL);
	$this->assign('sections',$sql->record);

?&gt;


index.tpl
---------

{* absolute path, or relative to $trusted_dir *}
{include_php file="/path/to/load_nav.php"}

{foreach item="curr_section" from=$sections}
	&lt;a href="{$curr_section.url}"&gt;{$curr_section.name}&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
{/foreach}</programlisting>
</example>
</sect1>
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