What are .tpl files? PHP, web design

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Someone wants me to redesign a site run in PHP (VideoCMS). But when I asked him to send me the source he has given me *.tpl files instead of *.php. There is some code inside them:

{include file='header.tpl' p="article"}

<br />
<table width="886" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
  <tr>
    <td width="150" valign="top">
    <div id="reg_box">
    <h3 class="captions">{$lang.articles}</h3>
        <div id="list_cats">
        <ul>
            {$article_categories}
        </ul>
        </div>
    </div>
    <br />
    <div id="reg_box">
    <h3 class="captions">{$lang.members}</h3>
    {if $logged_in == '1'}
    {include file='loggedin_body.tpl'}
    {else}
    {include file='login_body.tpl'}
    {/if}

{include file='header.tpl' p="index"}

{php} $_SESSION['isFair'] = "Yes"; {/php}

What's the interpreter of the code? How can I redesign this site?

Answers

That looks like Smarty to me. Smarty is a template parser written in PHP.

You can read up on how to use Smarty in the documentation.

If you can't get access to the CMS's source: To view the templates in your browser, just look at what variables Smarty is using and create a PHP file that populates the used variables with dummy data.

If I remember correctly, once Smarty is set up, you can use:

$smarty->assign('nameofvar', 'some data');

to set the variables.

Friday, September 16, 2022

silviasabbioni10-f41a174a4006

I don't if you want your webservice to upload/download files. Anyway you can use curl(http://fr.php.net/curl ) to upload/download file from other webserver.

To get some file uploaded to the webservice from the user it's pretty much the same as gettings it from a form, please use the superglobal variable:$_FILES (doc) to get upload files.

for uploading from php to a webservice

$fullflepath = 'C:temptest.jpg';
$upload_url = 'http://www.example.com/uploadtarget.php';
$params = array(
 'photo'=>"@$fullfilepath",
 'title'=>$title
);  

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $upload_url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $params);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

the webservice to get a file

$uploads_dir = '/uploads';
foreach ($_FILES["photo"]["error"] as $key => $error) {
    if ($error == UPLOAD_ERR_OK) {
        $tmp_name = $_FILES["photo"]["tmp_name"][$key];
        $name = $_FILES["photo"]["name"][$key];
        move_uploaded_file($tmp_name, "$uploads_dir/$name");
    }
}

PS: sorry for some reason doesn't like to make a link of $_FILES ... so I have linked the superglobals page instead

Monday, November 14, 2022

behnam_eskandari

Corrected your html code so that you have a placeholder for the number of votes.
Corrected the Ajax call so that it passes the same parameters as per the hrefs in your initial upvote anchor.
Fixed various syntax errors in the ajax call

Html Code

    <p>
       <span class="votenumbers">{$vote}</span> 
       <a id="upvote_{$qid}" class="q_upvote" href="#"><i class="icon-thumbs-up"></i></a> 
       <a href="vote.php?q_vote=vote_down&question_id={$qid}"><i class="icon-thumbs-down</i</a>
   </p>

jQuery Code

$(".q_upvote").click(function()
    {
        var vote = "vote_up",
            question_id = this.id.split('_')[1], 
            votedata = "q_vote="+vote+"&question_id="+question_id;
        $.ajax({                 
                type: 'POST',
                url: 'vote.php',
                data: votedata,
                success: function(vote_msg){
                   if(vote_msg== 'ok')
                       {
                       //show the new vote
                       $(this).find('.votenumbers').closest().html(parseInt($(this).find('.votenumbers').closest().html())+1) 
                       }
                   else{
                        //show notification
                   }
                }
           });
    }
)

Friday, August 19, 2022

jallen7usa

declare, before include the template:

{assign var="link_truncate" value="30"}

Friday, October 28, 2022

xyaren

There are lots of different 'pattern' families out there, but taking your question its broadest terms...

I'd recommend:

Jim Coplien's Organisational Patterns
The Hillside Group wiki
Kevlin Henney's site has plenty of excellent links & papers

Offline (my favourites):

Fowler's Patterns of Enterprise Architecture
Feather's Working Effectively with Legacy Code

Offline (popular):

GoF Design Patterns
Fowler's Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code

Wednesday, September 7, 2022

harrison

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