Adding static content to a template

[KunGu]

Hi all!

I'm totally new in CMS integration, and I chose PW to start my learning.

After following the tuts available, I've launched myself in the "Delayed ouptut" approach to start.

I'm now facing a problem, I think I misunderstood one of the basis concepts.

I integrated the header and the footer of my website by writing HTML code to my main.inc, I think I'm ok for that.

I just started to create my templates files for the homepage and here comes the questioning.

I have some static content like a slider to put on the top of the body, so I have a large HTML code to write, and I don't want to be managed from PW.

What is the best approach to integrate it ? Firstly I put my HTML code into my home.php, but I realized that I have to put it in a variable wich will be output in the main. But how can I integrate a large portion of code in one variable ? Using Heredoc ? Or do I have to create a separate file ?

Thank you in advance for whom will give me some assistance I'm now a bit lost, and I don't want to use hacking tricks.

[diogo]

Hi KunGu, welcome to the forums!

Eheh, you chose the most difficult way to start I don't thing that's a bad thing but I would suggest that you also do some test with the direct output, since it's the simplest to understand and most common way in CMS integration. Just to have a feeling of how it works.

With the delay output, you got it right, Heredoc is one way to go. Other way is to concatenate the html pieces like this:

// ultra simplified example

$myVariable = "<p>";
$myVariable .= "content";
$myVariable .= "</p>";

You can also include the content of an external file into a variable in two ways:

ob_start();
include('slider.inc');
$myVariable = ob_get_clean();  

or:

$myVariable = file_get_contents('slider.inc')

[KunGu]

Thanks a lot for your reply, I was not so far ! I thought that Heredoc was not the good way to go.

I think it's heavy going to include some fields from PW with the heredoc syntax, and heavy going too to add contents like that :

// ultra simplified example

$myVariable = "<p>";
$myVariable .= "content";
$myVariable .= "</p>";

That's why I thought there was an easier way to go !

Thank you

EDIT : Ok I just found out that I can use PHP variables into the Heredoc with {}. I thought I had to close Heredoc and reopen it. It's a lot easier now. Problem resolved !!
Thanks again !