In short, all I need is to make my WordPress do this
$var = get_template_part( 'loop', 'index' );
but, get_template_part()
does not return HTML, it prints it.
I need this HTML stored in $var
- do you have any ideas how to do it?
In short, all I need is to make my WordPress do this
$var = get_template_part( 'loop', 'index' );
but, get_template_part()
does not return HTML, it prints it.
I need this HTML stored in $var
- do you have any ideas how to do it?
This isn't what get_template_part
was for, get_template_part essentially behaves like PHP's require function. Justin Tadlock writes a lot more about this here and also talks about a Wordpress function that might be more useful to you - locate_template
.
Alternatively, if you did want to hack this functionality using get_template_part, you could use template buffering:
function load_template_part($template_name, $part_name=null) {
ob_start();
get_template_part($template_name, $part_name);
$var = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
return $var;
}
I'm not loving Output Buffering, though +1 for even thinking of that as an option!
I think Helga was on to something, but you need to still respect the child_themes and the theme path, so use locate_template()
instead (also as Simon suggested).
This works nicely, and can even be used inside a filter or (in my case) shortcode function (I wanted my shortcode to output the content within a template-style file, to separate the display layer from the logic layer).
return file_get_contents(locate_template("template-file-name.php")); // don't forget the .php!
what about?
$file = file_get_contents(STYLESHEETPATH . '/template-part.php');
return $file;
i'm sure there is a better way, but that seems to work for me.