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 $var - do you have any ideas how to do it?
6 Answers
This isn't what get_template_part was for, get_template_part essentially behaves like PHP's require function. Justin Tadlock writes a lot more about this here and also talks about a Wordpress function that might be more useful to you - locate_template.
Alternatively, if you did want to hack this functionality using get_template_part, you could use template buffering:
function load_template_part($template_name, $part_name=null) {
ob_start();
get_template_part($template_name, $part_name);
$var = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
return $var;
}
8 Comments
helgatheviking
when i put this in my theme i only get bacon and not the file's contents.... : echo "bacon " . load_template_part('registration-form.php');
Simon Scarfe
I'm not sure where Atomicus says that they want the literal unprocessed PHP, get_template_part acts as an include rather than a file-content-getter.
helgatheviking
should comment back to say that you're right this totally works, i was feeding the wrong info to the function (adding .php). <facepalm> though i would set $part_name=NULL by default so you can just called load_template_part('content-aside')
Codebeat
This is the reason why wordpress sucks, very ugly solution and very error sensitive.
Codebeat
@Simon Scarfe: Yes it really sucks because of the old separated header, content and footer structure and you cannot change it without hacking wordpress. I need to change something in the header based on the content but it is impossible without hacking the wordpress template system. Header is generated before content. locate_template doesn't make any sense either because it is an include. Why using the overhead of a wordpress function to include something. Yes there are ways to change the header based on some content but with overhead or very ugly.
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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.
Comments
If your goal is to create a shortcode with the HTML return, the example below works for me:
function funcao_produtos_filtro_ead() {
$html = "";
ob_start();
// LOOP DE PRODUTOS
$args = array(
'post_type' => 'product',
'posts_per_page' => '-1'
);
$loop = new WP_Query( $args );
if ( $loop->have_posts() ) {
while ( $loop->have_posts() ) : $loop->the_post();
wc_get_template_part( 'content', 'product' );
endwhile;
}
wp_reset_postdata();
return '<div class="woocommerce">' . ob_get_clean() . '</div>';
}
add_shortcode('produtos_filtro_ead', 'funcao_produtos_filtro_ead');
1 Comment
Nathan
Thank you! This is exactly what I was looking for :)
This worked for me
ob_start();
get_template_part( 'loop', 'index' );
$var = ob_get_clean();
Comments
I know I'm late to the party, but what I do that doesn't require output buffering is to just put it in a function, save function in functions.php, and save what it returns to a variable.
function get_loop_index() {
$loop = "<div class='loop'>
<a class='index' href='foo.bar'></a>
</div>";
return $loop
}
$loop_index = get_loop_index();
$var.