How to show content of a a specific URL in Smarty template? - smarty

Question

Following is my code snippet from smarty template :
<div id="entrancelist">
<h2 class="heading">My Packages</h2>
{if $user_study_test_packages.test}
<ul class="entrancelist">
{foreach from=$user_study_test_packages.test item="user_test_packages" key=key}
<li>
<h4>{$user_test_packages.pack_name|capitalize:true}</h4>
{if $user_test_packages.pack_expiry_date1 >= $current_date }
<div class="fr"><span class="expiry">Expiry : {$user_test_packages.pack_expiry_date}</span></div>
{else}
<div class="fr"><span class="expiry_dt">This package is expired on {$user_test_packages.pack_expiry_date}.</span></div>
{/if}
<p class="descp">{$user_test_packages.test_pack_desc}</p>
<div class="srtest"> </div>
</li>
{/foreach}
</ol>
{else}
You haven't bought any online test packages
{/if}
</div>
Now what I want to do is reaplace the text "You haven't bought any online test packages" with the content of different URL say www.google.com But I'm not understanding how should I achieve this. Can anyone help me out in this issue? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Why not keep PHP separate from the template?
Maybe do this in your php code,
<?php
$gcontent = file_get_contents('http://www.google.com');
$smarty->assign('gcontent',$gcontent);
?>
Then you can use {$gcontent} in your template.
You can even use query string parameters with the URL if you wanted to. More info on the php function.
http://www.w3schools.com/php/func_filesystem_file_get_contents.asp

Answer 2

Something like this works for me in Smarty 3, but some might not consider it very elegant:
...
{else}
{file_get_contents('http://www.google.com/')}
{/if}