Include file or write text

I have two columns in a MySQL table.  ->
page_template : Either 'default' or the name of a existing template file
page_content : Content of the current page (may not be displayed depending on settings...)

And I want to do the following:
if (page_template != 'default')
then include page_template
else display page_content

My closest tbs guess would be the following:
{box.page_template;if {val}!='default';file={var._dir_templ}{val}; else {box.page_content}; htmlconv=look;protect=no}
(although this is wrong it does show you what I want to achieve)

(the tbs guess gets processed by this call:
$tbs->MergeBlock('box','mysql',$query);)


How can I achieve this?????

I came just a bit closer myself, but it still isn't as it should be!!


However, in this way tbs tries to get the templates in the 'else' statement, even though at this point it is unknown if that is needed at all.

I cannot evaluate the check first because this block is copied for as  many records the query yields;
the box fields are within a table that among others also holds the locator {box.page_box_title;ifempty={box.page_title};block=table}  (sorry, forgot to mention that in the previous post)

Ok, I added the file 'default' to the template dirctory, then I losse the error message, but I would like to know any better method...

Hello RwD,

If you have the 1.90bx version, then you can use a custom PHP function on the block using the 'onsection' parameter.

With previous versions, or with the same version, you can also use something like this:
Because there is a nested TBS field, you have to be sure that in your query, the 'page_template' column comes before the 'page_content' column.

Your code the tbs_check can't work because tbs_check tags without sub-names are processed like fields and not like blocks.
It is not a good solution anyway because it first displays all contents (both page_template and page_content) and then deletes the bad ones. Which is not the fastest way.