smarty include markdown file

Question

I want to include a markdown file in my Smarty template.

In PHP I have this:

$smarty->assign('text', 'PATH_TO_FILE/text.md');

in the template I use:

{include file=$text}

but this returns an unformated block of text.

I tried using David Scherer’s markdown plugin for Smarty:

{markdown text=$text} 

but this just returns the file path stored in the $text variable.

How do I get Smarty to parse an included file as markdown?

Answer 1

You could instead read the file and assign the contents to the variable, then use the markdown plugin.

$smarty->assign('text', file_get_contents('PATH_TO_FILE/text.md'));

Manual page for file_get_contents()