file or subtpl as string

Dear Skrol29,

I'm not being able to achieve the following:



It will not find the file, as I assume it shouldn't.

If I do as follow:


It won't work as it should, if I hardcode $tbstable in the html side, it will work fine.

As you can see I'm lost.

Is it simple to have a string as a subtpl? I guess this is what I'm trying to do.

What I was working on was a function that automates the construction of the navbar according to the block name, so I can only worry with the css side every time I need to paginate a tbs block. I got stuck in this part where I'm trying to bring the html side from a string, for the moment it is working fine since the function will write the string into a text file and then it is included with onload;file. But I would prefer it coming from a string.

Regards,

- Michaelsen

> It will not find the file, as I assume it shouldn't.

Of course, because $tbsfile is not a file path.

> It won't work as it should, if I hardcode $tbstable in the html side, it will work fine.

The field [var.tbsfile;htmlconv=no;protect=no] is merged at the end of the merge, i.e. when you call $TBS->Show().
Replace it with: [onload.tbsfile;htmlconv=no;protect=no]

Hello again,

Sir, I really appreciate your reply in this manner, but if you allow me I need to bother you a little more.

Unfortunately when I tried your code above I noticed I need to define tbsfile before $TBS->LoadTemplate, as tbs logic says, but this is so inconvenient for me, since it would be so much more pleasant to have the query and the navbar together such as this:


Should I give up on this and mantain the tbsNav function to harcode the navbar in a file to be included, or is there a way out?

Thank you again!

- Michaelsen

Hi,

If you need to define $tbsfile after the LoadTemplate() but before the MergeBlock('cat', ...), then you can merge $tbsfile when you need using MergeField, just like this:
PHP side;

HTML side:

This is so cool!


Thank you Mr. Skrol, I think now I have a better hang of MergeField.

As always, TBS is the best php class ever, please keep up the good work sir.