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Hi All,

I’m trying to apply a PHP function to a template’s entire contents, and have enabled PHP and set it to parse on output. However it seems an embedded template in the template isn’t processed before PHP parsing occurs. Can someone tell me what I’m doing wrong?

<?php
$input = <<<EETAG
{embed="test/embed"}
EETAG;

echo preg_replace('/embed/','cheese',$input);
?>

I assume that ‘parse on output’ should mean the EE tag is expanded (into the content of the test/embed template) *before* preg_replace occurs, but the output I get is “{cheese="test/cheese"}“. If I just echo $input without preg_replace I do get the embedded template’s contents.

Alternatively if I’m doing it wrong can someone reply with pseudo-code to apply a PHP function to a ‘rendered template’?

Thanks in advance

peace - oli

oli-studio:

What is your goal here?  Perhaps there is native solution to what you are trying to do.

-greg

Hi Greg,

I’m trying to convert UTF-8 content into a different encoding (Shift-JIS) for use in a mobile version of the website, using PHP’s iconv function. I tried making a plugin, but while it works with the content of the template it didn’t have any effect on embeds, leading me to wonder if plugins are applied before embeds. So now I’m trying to use PHP to affect the “rendered Template”, and even with PHP set to ‘parse on output’ for the template, it just doesn’t seem to be doing so.

I should be able to assign the result of the template (post-EE tag processing) to a variable then apply a PHP function to the variable shouldn’t I? Is there some kind of buffer that EE is using or something? Alternatively is there something I can do to the plugin to get it to work as expected?

Any assistance would of course be greatly appreciated 😊

peace - oli

It’s a parse order problem.  If you take a look at that link, you’ll see that the sub-templates are done after php on-output.

The only thing that comes to mind right now is to wrap the whole template in the iconv code.