[Phplib-users] Template problems

[Rob H. <rob...@ws...>]

OK, couple of more questions.  I'm just not getting how things are laid out
and interrelated.

I have a base template for a page with a place holder in it for a menu
{mainMenu}.  I have another template called side menu with the following
structure.

*menu.tpl
some javascript code
<!-- BEGIN block1 -->
	function({block1var});
<!-- END block1 -->

<!-- menuItemBlock -->
	<!-- BEGIN childblock1 -->
		{var1}
		{var2}
	<!-- END childblock1 -->
	<!-- BEGIN childblock2 -->
		{var 3}
	<!-- END childblock2 -->
	{var 4}
<!-- menuItemBlock -->


The code in the side menu page gets included in them main page fine.  The
problem that I am having is in processing the menu page.  Both 'block1' and
'menu' item block can appear multiple times in one menu.  So I do a:

$t->set_file('menu','leftmenu.tpl');

$t->set_block('menu','block1','block1place');

reset ($mainMenu);
while (list ($key, $val) = each ($mainMenu)) {
  $t->set_var(array('block1var' => $key));
  $t->parse('block1place', 'block1', true);
}

It gets added once for each pass through $mainMenu as it should. But when I
do a similar thing with menuItemBlock, I only get it added once the last
time through.  Here is what I am doing.

reset ($mainMenu);
while (list ($key, $val) = each ($mainMenu)) {
	$t->set_block('mainMenuItem','childblock1','childblock1holder');
	$t->set_var(array(
		'var1'	=> $val1,
		'var2'	=> $val2));

	$t->parse('childblock1', 'childblock1', true);
	$t->set_block('mainMenuItem','childblock2','childblock2holder');
	$t->set_var(array('var3'	=> $val2));
	$t->parse('childblock1', 'childblock1', true);
	$t->set_block('menu','menuItemBlock','menuItem');
	$t->set_var(array('var4	=> $val4);
	$t->parse('menutItem','menuItemBlock', true);
}

I only get one menuItemBlock for the last time through.

All this to say, is there a document somewhere that better covers Templates
and child blocks?  If not, I've read through the source once and am
confused.  I guess I don't understand the overall structure.

Thanks,
Rob Hutton
Web Safe
www.wsafe.com

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