Parsing PHP in template.html

[mattward2k]

YaBB 1 Gold was brill - but combine it with PHP and its amazing. (There ain't anything better than PHP and mySQL combined). What I wanna know is - I've got loads of PHP I wanna parse in the main template, but how do I do it? Simply typing in PHP commands in template.html seems to do nothing...

[PHPlugin]

yeah cause its an html not an php file!

Im asking me why they dont use a template.php?
 

[Dave Smulders]

Why do you need it?

You can make your own <yabb something> tags, and have a function called on that spot.
Then you can have the function to include php files.

See this post from Joseph for details:
http://www.yabb.info/community/index.php?board=134;action=display;threadid=2518

[mattward2k]

Because having it would make life a lot simpler, and since the whole thing works on PHP there must be a way of getting it to parse it in template.html. The Subs.php thing is a solution but a drawn out and difficult one...what if I just want to print the persons username, or include several files? Things like if() statements can't be possible, and if they are, they must be a nightmare because you have to plan everything in the yyMyFunction() statement in advance.

[alexrolko]

You've answered your won question why you cant use <?PHP?> tags in the template, is beacause YaBB parses the template, not PHP.

PHP parses YaBB to parse the template.

Anyway Joseph explained it:

A final note is that the function captures the output of your program - not the return value.  So all you need to do is print or echo what you want to display - and it'll be captured and inserted at the right spot.

so you have your own script, say your own poll, and all u have to do is just a print(), echo() for variables or a require(), require_once(), include() you know them all use the right one.