Aptilis manual: GetTemplate

GetTemplate		Strings
Aptilis 2.4

GetTemplate (Template_Name)

Returns a template defined with the template directive somewhere in your Aptilis script.

Return Value:
The template in a string or an empty string in case of error (_errno$ may tell you why).

Example 1:

#!/usr/bin/aptilis.exe

template PageTop
<html>
<head>
<title>My Homepage</title>
</head>
<body>
end PageTop

template PageBottom
<hr size="1" width="80%">
&copy; 2004 by Donald McRonald
</body>
</html>
end PageBottom

sub main

	pageTop    = getTemplate("PageTop") $
	pageBottom = getTemplate("PageBottom") $

	print("Context-type: text/html\n\n")

	print(pageTop$, someContent$, pageBottom$)

end main

Example 2:

#!/usr/bin/aptilis.exe

template Database
"Mr.","Bond","James","MI6"
"Mr.","Hunt","Ethan","IMF"
"Mr.","Mulder,"Fox","FBI"
end template

sub main

	n = parseDatabase(db[], getTemplate("Database")$)

	print("Good Morning, ", getField(db[1]$,0)$, " ", getField(db[1]$,1)$)

end main

Result:

Good Morning, Mr. Hunt

Example 3:

#!/usr/bin/aptilis.exe

template TestTemplate

this won't terminate the template:
 end TestTemplate

this won't, too:
end TestTemplate Test

but this terminates it:
end template

this would terminate it, too - if it wasn't already terminated by the previous "end template":
end TestTemplate

sub main

	print(getTemplate("TestTemplate")$)

end main

Result:

this won't terminate the template:
 end TestTemplate

this won't, too:
end TestTemplate Test

but this terminates it: