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Beginners Example of Static Page with Dynamic Content

What follows is a simple example for including .tpls (and their dynamic content) in a static page. This example shows how to create a main category page that displays static page content before a dynamic listing of root categories.

Create a static page in admin, title it (ex "Our Catalog"), enter the page content and note the page id (see url ex ".../admin/pages.php?pageid=9")

At around line 7 of "customer/main/pages.tpl" replace:

Code:

{$page_content}

with:

Code:

{$page_content}

{if ($smarty.get.pageid eq "9")}

<br><br>

{include file="customer/categories.tpl"}

{/if}

Be sure to change the page id "9" above to your previously created page id.

Inside your pages.tpl you can create several if statements "id=n" for every static page that you want to include files in or alter the layout of.

Re: Beginners Example of Static Page with Dynamic Content

This is close to what I'm trying to do. I have an empty static page, that I want to load the home page of a Knowledge Base installation.

I tried using this code:

Code:

{$page_content}

{if ($smarty.get.pageid eq "53")}

<br><br>

{include file="library/index.php"}

{/if}

But it doesn't load the page. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks,
Dan

Re: Beginners Example of Static Page with Dynamic Content

You should include a tpl file not a php.

Re: Beginners Example of Static Page with Dynamic Content

Thanks. I got it in there using a php include, but now I think that the application itself would have to be rewritten (basically) to work within an embedded page.