Loading a template from a variable

Hi,
I'm not yet very used to TBS and i don't have too much  time so i learn little by little.
Sorry if this has already been addressed in this forum.

I need to load a template, not from a file, but from a variable as my templates are saved in a database.
So to go quicker, i've rewrite the LoadTemplate method to make a LoadTemplateFromVar method.

But as i seen, you guys have done a very good job in TBS and you seem to have thought a lot of things. I discover TBS is much more complete than i thought at first and i'm very pleased. So i begin to think that maybe you have a method to load a template from a var and maybe my method is obsolete. Can you confirm ?

Many many thanks.
Julien.

Hello,

Why can't you do:
  $TBS->LoadTemplate($myfile) ?

Hi skrol,

You are quicker than my shadow.

I cannot do this because, on my server, i don't have any file template.
My templates are stored in a database. So i get the content of the template from a record in the database.

I've tried to load the template as you said :
$TBS->LoadTemplate($myvar) but it doesn't work :

Ha, ok,

So the good way is:
$TBS->Source = $template_contents;
$TBS->MergeSpecial('onload');

Hi Skrol,
Ok thanks.

What is the purpose of the MergeSpecial method ? I've read the doc but cannot clearly understand why you advice me to do it.

If i do a $TBS->Show() later, do i need to do a $TBS->MergeSpecial('onload') before ? If yes, why ?

It enables you to merge automatic "onload" fields and blocks.
This is done with LoadTemplate(), but when you force the contents, you have to start this process manually.

Var fields and "onshow" will be merged automatically during Show().