Smarty - Export txt files from TPL

Question

I basically have this code:

<table width="100%" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td>{$root.page.contentgroup.Directory[0]}</td>
<td>{$root.page.contentgroup.Title[0]}</td>
<td>{$root.page.contentgroup.Description[0]}</td>
</tr>
</table>

I would love to add a button, and when I click it, it generate 3 txt files. When the script generate the txt file, it should locate them according to {$root.page.contentgroup.Directory[0]}. For example:

<table width="100%" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td>mydirectory</td> {**directory.txt**}
<td>mytitle</td> {**title.txt**}
<td>mydescription</td> {**description.txt**}
</tr> 
</table>
[SUBMIT]

When I click submit, the script generate the 3 txt files and locate them on

mysite/folder/{$root.page.contentgroup.Directory[0]}/directory.txt
mysite/folder/{$root.page.contentgroup.Directory[0]}/title.txt
mysite/folder/{$root.page.contentgroup.Directory[0]}/description.txt

what is the better way to do it? I can use only smarty functions (((

Thank you

You should do it in PHP and not in Smarty – Marcin Nabiałek Sep 23 '14 at 10:13 — Marcin Nabiałek, Sep 23 '14 at 10:13

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:05

This must be implemented with php. Smarty is a template engine, and must be used only for presentation. (Or even better -my opinion- don't use a template engine at all. An opinion based question on this here.)

If you want badly to do things really bad, you may use the {php} tag that allows php code to be embeded inside smarty's .tpl files.

{php}
   // including a php script directly from the template.
   include('/path/to/your_file_generation_script.php');
{/php}

http://www.smarty.net/docsv2/en/language.function.php.tpl

Smarty - Export txt files from TPL

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