External file.php into 68c - way to do it?

[darek]

I need to load an external php file. I might need it for a guest book, php form or full featured search. OK, every thing is easy if we load it into a php file like index.php. But this mean the feature would be available only for index.php. If I loaded it into layout.tpl.php - the feature would be available throughout the page. Is it possible? This will solve me a lot of problems. Thanks in advance.

[Lhotch]

http://smarty.php.net/manual/en/lang...nction.php.php

[darek]

THANKS a lot!

[darek]

Need help again. I want to have full search on main page, to do that I need to include search.php. When I included it to index.php - it worked, but when I included it to layout.tpl.php
using:

PHP Code:

{php}
   // including a php script directly from the template.
   include('search.php');
{/php} 


I got this error
Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in search.php on line 21

What did I do wrong?

[juven14]

I put a link in your other post regarding the search plugin. Here it is again, I think there are a few other posts that cover this topic as well.

http://www.68classifieds.com/forums/...=search+plugin

[Lhotch]

Originally Posted by darek

Need help again. I want to have full search on main page, to do that I need to include search.php. When I included it to index.php - it worked, but when I included it to layout.tpl.php
using:

PHP Code:

{php}
   // including a php script directly from the template.
   include('search.php');
{/php} 


I got this error
Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in search.php on line 21

What did I do wrong?

I didnt realize you wanted to call an existing 68c *.php file.

68C php files are designed to use smarty for their presentation so they in and of themselves dont output anything, the pass variables to smarty for display.

[Eric Barnes]

As a workaround if you only want the search page for the home page you could rename search.php to index.php then it will load first by default.

[darek]

Unfortunately I thought of a full featured search through out the site, so I need to laod it pernamently. Either with a template or php files.