How to include one template on several parent templates?

[piar]

I have two pages let us call them UserView (UserView.page, UserView.php) and AdminView (AdminView.page, AdminView.php). That two pages have some different components and behaviours but also some common components and behaviour. So to avoid code duplication I want to put that common parts to separate files - let say: Common.tpl (derived from TTemplateControl) and Common.php. But I do not know how to include that Common file on UserView and AdminView.
There is template injection mechanism implemented by: TContent with TContentPlaceHolder but it works from other side: when there is one master and several child templates. In my situation that could works if I would make master from Common but it is not exactly what I want (and in that situation it would not be correct from logical point of view). For example if Common would be master I will get:
Common.page

Code:

<!-- some common components -->
<com:TContentPlaceHolder ID="CommonPH" />

So now in both UserView and AdminView common components will be above specific commponents but I would like to have them in another place in UserView and AdminView.

I would like to have something like that:
UserView.page

Code:

<!-- some UserView specific components -->
<!-- include Common components here -->
<!-- other UserView specific components -->

AdminView.page

Code:

<!-- some AdminView specific components -->
<!-- include Common components here -->
<!-- other AdminView specific components -->

Is there a way to make inclusion like that?

[nilsz]

What about:

main.tpl

Code:

<com:TContentPlaceHolder ID="Admin1" />
<com:TContentPlaceHolder ID="Common" />
<com:TContentPlaceHolder ID="Admin2" />

[piar]

What about:

main.tpl

Code:

<com:TContentPlaceHolder ID="Admin1" />
<com:TContentPlaceHolder ID="Common" />
<com:TContentPlaceHolder ID="Admin2" />

Thanks for that suggestion but it is not exactly what I want. Let us say that in UserView common part should be in divs <div></div> and in AdminView in some table <td></td> like that:

UserView.page

Code:

<div style="width: 300px">
<!-- include here somehow Common.tpl -->
</div>

AdminView.page

Code:

<table>
<tr>
<td>Description</td>
<td><!-- include here somehow Common.tpl --></td>
</tr>
</table>

This probably can not be made when we will make Common as master and UserView with AdminView as childs. That is why I am looking for some other solution where Common would not be master but would be somehow included in UserView and AdminView.

[piar]

In fact I want something like for example ItemRenderer for TTemplateColumn in TDataGrid where we are making:

Code:

<com:TTemplateColumn
        ID="Column"
        ItemRenderer="Application.pages.SomeRenderer"
        />

SomeRenderer is tpl file and is included in main page in that column for every row of DataGrid. I want to have exactly same thing but without TDataGrid - I just want to include tpl file in two page files.

[nilsz]

Maybe this is an idea:

main.tpl

Code:

<com:TContentPlaceHolder ID="Admin1" />

<com:TControl Visible="<%= !$this->User->IsAdmin %>" >
<div>
<com:TContentPlaceHolder ID="Common" />
</div
</com:TControl>

<com:TControl Visible="<%= $this->User->IsAdmin %>" >
<table><tr><td>
<com:TContentPlaceHolder ID="Common" />
</td></tr></table>
</com:TControl>

<com:TContentPlaceHolder ID="Admin2" />

[nilsz]

In fact I want something like for example ItemRenderer for TTemplateColumn in TDataGrid where we are making:

Code:

<com:TTemplateColumn
        ID="Column"
        ItemRenderer="Application.pages.SomeRenderer"
        />

SomeRenderer is tpl file and is included in main page in that column for every row of DataGrid. I want to have exactly same thing but without TDataGrid - I just want to include tpl file in two page files.

Just make a component of the tpl. you can include it then in any page you want with

<com:MyComponent ID="common">

[piar]

Just make a component of the tpl. you can include it then in any page you want with

<com:MyComponent ID="common">

Yes! That is what I was looking for! I made my own control from that common part and now it works exactly as I wanted to. Thank you for help!

[m_ologin]

Hi,

Could you please explain how you went from a template to a component?