Smarty within addon

[Sp0tteh]

Hey,

 

In the process of creating an addon. However I really don't enjoy having to echo my html and would rather be able to split up the design from the PHP.

 

Is there a way I can use smarty and create a template file that then renders my page as well as the rest of the Admin area (header / footer ect)???

 

Cheers

[laszlof]

Not sure if it works with addon modules or not, but you can try returning the template array from the _output() function.

 

return array(
   'templatefile'=>'sometemplate',
   'breadcrumb'=>'',
   'vars'=> array(
       'somevar' => $somevalue,
       'somevar2' => $someothervalue));

 

This works with things like server modules.

[heapmaster]

Hey,

 

In the process of creating an addon. However I really don't enjoy having to echo my html and would rather be able to split up the design from the PHP.

 

Is there a way I can use smarty and create a template file that then renders my page as well as the rest of the Admin area (header / footer ect)???

 

Cheers

 

I couldnt find anything on this either, but I figured it out. If you want to use smarty templates for the add-on pages within WHMCS admin area use this code in your functions instead of putting your admin HTML code into the module and doing an echo/print of it.

 

// create object

$smarty = new Smarty;

 

// Example assign variable

$smarty->assign('name', 'george smith');

 

$smarty->caching = false;

 

$smarty->compile_dir = $GLOBALS['templates_compiledir'];

 

// display file from template folder within add-on folder

$smarty->display(dirname(__FILE__) . '/templates/template-file.tpl');