a tpl question

[gwhosting]

good day;

I have the below code in my footer.tpl file, and i'm curious why pray tell it might not be working? Can you not put this type of code in .tpl files and whmcs not be able to call it?

 

<h3>Twitter updates</h3>

<script src="http://widgets.twimg.com/j/2/widget.js"></script>

<script>

new TWTR.Widget({

version: 2,

type: 'profile',

rpp: 4,

interval: 6000,

width: 250,

height: 300,

theme: {

shell: {

background: '#333333',

color: '#ffffff'

},

tweets: {

background: '#000000',

color: '#ffffff',

links: '#4aed05'

}

},

features: {

scrollbar: false,

loop: false,

live: true,

hashtags: true,

timestamp: true,

avatars: false,

behavior: 'default'

}

}).render().setUser('gwhosting').start();

</script>

the error that is given is below:

 

Fatal error: Template error: [in custom/footer.tpl line 6]: syntax error: unrecognized tag: version: 2, type: 'profile', rpp: 4, interval: 6000, width: 250, height: 300, theme: { shell: { background: '#333333', color: '#ffffff' (Smarty_Compiler.class.php, line 439) in /home/mbabcock/public_html/whmcs/includes/smarty/Smarty.class.php on line 1095

[sparky]

use {literal}...{/literal} tags around the script

[gwhosting]

hi;

thanks so when do i use the {literal} tags?

[sparky]

<h3>Twitter updates</h3>
<script src="http://widgets.twimg.com/j/2/widget.js"></script>
{literal}
<script>
new TWTR.Widget({
 version: 2,
 type: 'profile',
 rpp: 4,
 interval: 6000,
 width: 250,
 height: 300,
 theme: {
   shell: {
     background: '#333333',
     color: '#ffffff'
   },
   tweets: {
     background: '#000000',
     color: '#ffffff',
     links: '#4aed05'
   }
 },
 features: {
   scrollbar: false,
   loop: false,
   live: true,
   hashtags: true,
   timestamp: true,
   avatars: false,
   behavior: 'default'
 }
}).render().setUser('gwhosting').start();
</script>
{/literal}

[gwhosting]

wow sparky, your very helpful.

What i mint to say though, is how often do i need to use the {literal}, i see where i use it in this code, do i use those tags by any script code, or is there any "reason" for the use of that tag?

Pardon the ignorance!

[sparky]

if within the <script>...</script> tags there are any curly braces { } then you need to put that part within the {literal} tags because smarty uses the curley braces when it compiles the template to replace the varials or commands within the braces.

The other option is to replace the braces within the <script> tags with {ldelim} ( for { ) and {rdelim} ( for } )

[gwhosting]

hi;

thanks a lot, the admins can close this thred if they would like.

mike