How to create a macro allowing to include a template

Wintermute

Hello !

I use Latte as templating system in my PHP framework, Bluebird.

I created a few templates for form fields which could be included in another template : formtext.html, formcheckbox.html…

Is there a way to create a macro wich allow to write something like :

{formtext name => 'title',required => true}

instead of

{include 'formtext.html', name => 'title',required=>true}

?

Thanks.

Ondřej Kubíček

you can create your own macro, but i think you want a dynamic macro name and i dont think it is possible, not easy way…
but you can create macro with one letter, such as alias. something like this – {i formtext, name => ...}

Wintermute

Hello,

Thanks for your answer.

No, I don't want a dynamic macro.

I would like to know how to write a macro formtext which could call include and pass its arguments.

Could I write a macro which call BlockMacros::macroInclude ?

Milo

I don't know about some blog post about macro writing in english. In shortcut…

If you want to write a macro, implement the Latte\IMacro and than register own macros for Latte\Compiler. The most easiest way is extending the Latte\Macros\MacroSet, it's a prepared implementation.

Write macro similar to include is quite different. The {include} is one of Latte core macros and is quite tided to core code. ~~Probably copy/paste of code is the easiest way.~~

Edit:
Wrong link. @DavidMatějka's one below is correct.

David Matějka

probably more relevant is macroInclude in CoreMacros which is used for file inclusion, the one in BlockMacros is used for blocks

Wintermute

Ondřej Kubíček wrote:
but you can create macro with one letter, such as alias. something like this – {i formtext, name => ...}

Is there a simple way to create an alias for a built-in macro such as include ?