Including Template Parts
Include files at specified places in the main template
As a true template engine, PHPFront is made to help you dynamically and easily compose a template.
You could separate parts of your template into different files (the header.html, footer.html, or the sidebar.html,
for example) and use PHPFront::setInclude() function to build these up again – at runtime.
Function
PHPFront::setInclude($element_selector, $include_path);
This function accepts two parameters:
$element_selector - the element selector,
$include_path – the path to the include file (absolute path or relative path).
Usage
// This includes a file using a relative path
$PHPFront->setInclude('#header_wrapper', '../../resources/header.html');
// This includes a file using an absolute path
$PHPFront->setInclude('#footer_wrapper', 'c://xamp/htdocs/app/resources/footer.html');
// This includes the sidebar.html file for all pages except the login page
if ($_POST['Controller'] == '/login')
{
// Do nothing
}
else
{
$PHPFront->setInclude('#sidebar_wrapper', '../../resources/sidebar.html');
}
All includes must be set before calling on the PHPFront::render() function.
PHPFront throws ErrorException when an include path could not be found or the file contains invalid markup.
Summary
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The
PHPFront::setInclude()function includes files at specified places in the main template. Recall
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