problems calling my own php function from a tpl (not pagelayout)

Thursday 29 April 2004 1:12:53 am

hi all
i wrote a simple function called send_viasocket(host) that constructs a socket and communicates with the host on the port 1351.

		//send a socket  request
		case $this->SendViaSocket:
		{
			$host="127.0.0.1" ; //my host address is secret! :) 
			$target=$namedParameters['address'] ; 
			$port=1351 ; 
			$timeout=60; 
			$protocol="HTTP/1.0" ; 
			
			$br="\r\n" ; 
			
			
			$sk=fsockopen($host,$port,$errnum,$errstr,$timeout) ; 
			
			if(!is_resource($sk))
			{			
				echo ("Connessione fallita: ".$errnum." ".$errstr." <br>") ; 
			
			} 
			
			else
			{			
				$headers="GET ".$target." ".$protocol.$br ; 
				$headers.="Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg".$br ; 
				$headers.="Accept-Language: dialetto veneto".$br ; 
				$headers.="Host: ".$host.$br ; 
				$headers.="Connection: Keep-Alive".$br ; 
				$headers.="User-Agent: Socket-PHP-browser 1.0".$br; 
				$headers.="Referer: http://www.bwbwabwa.it".$br ; 
				$headers.="X-INVENTATO: Ciao a tutti".$br.$br; 
				
				
				fputs($sk,$headers) ; 
				
				$dati="" ; 			
			} 
			
			fclose($sk) ; 			
			$operatorValue="";
		}break;

in my pagelayout.tpl i call the function in this way:
{"---"|send_viasocket("/index.php?name=alessandro")}

and all works great, as the socket communicates with host:1351/index.php?name=alessandro
i wrote the "$operatorValue="";" line because i want the call to the function to be hidden: in this way no output is made to the screen.

the problem is in the other templates (for example folder.tpl) where in the 90% of times i call the function i get the string "---" (the function operator) and the function isn't executed (it seems not to be reached).

ps: i placed the function in the lib/eztemplate/classes/eztemplatestringoperator.php

i hope i have been clear
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best regards
alessandro