HTML Template with PHP code

thanks, i am glad there is a way where would i find this in the documentation ?

best regards ! katja

i found out how to refer to a layout PHP page

but i can't work out how to include the perch Tag into the layout page

<? lehrerPlan('XX'); ?>

when i put <perch:content id="initials" type="text" label="Initialen" /> in place of XX, it doesn't work ...

Thank you Drew, i found this

but now i can't work out how to include the perch Tag into the PHP layout page

<? lehrerPlan('XX'); ?>

when i put <perch:content id="initials" type="text" label="Initialen" /> in place of XX, it doesn't work ...

Katja,

In order to send variable to layout from template

<perch:layout path="path_to_template.php" variable1="this_is_var1" variable2="this_is_var_2" />

in layout template use

<?php
    if (perch_layout_has('variable1')) {
        perch_layout_var('variable1');
    }else{
        echo "Nope, not here!";
    }
?>

to pass back into template use

<?php PerchSystem::set_var('variable1', 'send_into_template'); ?>

thank you for your explanation, but i don't quite understand, as i am not a PHP programmer, sorry !

my perch Tag is <perch:content id="initialen" type="text" label="Initialen" order="4" />

so the users input from "initialen" would be my variable, right ?

when i send <perch:layout path="path_to_template.php" variable1="initialen" /> to layout PHP, it does not work

it is printed "nope not there" - apparently, the value of the variable does not get there ?

it just doesnt work out ... how would i transfer the value from the content Tag, which is in the HTML template, to the layout PHP ?

1. in the HTML template, i ask the user for a value

<perch:content id="initials" type="text" label="Initialen"  />

1. in the PHP template, there is just one line

<? lehrerPlan('xx'); ?>

i need to repleace xx with the value of "initials"

1. to finish, i would call the layout PHP from the template HTML with <perch:layout>

Thank you Drew, for looking at this again,

but it still does not show up on the page, i am getting desperate

i did as you described, the path to the layout is correct, but the result is "nope"

that is the code from mylayout.php ~~~ <?php

lehrerPlan(perch_layout_var('initials', true));

if (perch_layout_has('initials')) { perch_layout_var('initials'); }else{ echo "Nope, not here!"; }
?>

You need to pass the variable to the layout

<perch:layout path="mylayout" initials="<perch:content id="initials" type="text" label="Initialen" />" />

Thank you very much Robert,

now it works

thanks for your patience and your great support

best regards ! katja

Drew McLellan said:

You need to pass the variable to the layout

You don't, it's automatic.

Drew, I don't want to be pain, I use layouts a lot and there is also this documentation on the perch site: Passing Variables into Layouts https://docs.grabaperch.com/perch/pages-and-nav/layouts/variables/

Without passing the variable as an attribute on the layout tag: Including Layouts in Templates https://docs.grabaperch.com/templates/includes/layouts/ "Any attributes set on the perch:layout tag are passed through as layout variables." I've not been able to discover them automatically there.

I have never seen documentation to the effect of this happening automatically, so I use the above documented approach.