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Hi,

quick reminder: the goal is to be able to insert extra content in any template, eg. the list of relationships in the main contact view form, the email and phone number of the contact in the participant detail templates.

To make it easy it should be done within the template, and add civicrm plugins to smarty.  I played with it and that's simple enough to add new functions in smarty.

What I imagined was (stupid example, list all the contacts in the group 42:

{civicrm_api var=$contacts command="contact/search" group=42 return=array("sort_name","email",...)}

This would fetch the list of contacts and assign it to contacts, that you can then loop normally

{foreach $contacts...}
<a href="mailto:{$contact.email}">{contact.sort_name}</a>

The only difference is that instead of having to do the fetch from within the php, you can do it from within the template.

beside {civicrm_api}, I thought about {civicrm_snippet uri="/..."} That would embed the html as generated in a snipped (eg the tag tab, the relationship tab...)

What do you think ? That's very much open right now. I've just done it for fetching datas from another application on mepwatch,  it works, so I'm guessing it's doable as well for datas from civicrm.

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For the api call, I don't want to return as xml/json, but assign the results to smarty variables.

as for civicrm_snippet, I see the problem, but what if it's included at the bottom of the template ? it will override variables from the main one, but that aren't used anymore, are they ?

Anyway, yes, deserves a big warning, both because of that, and because you can easily add quite a few sql queries in the page.

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Have a look there for more explanations
http://civicrm.org/node/599

http://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-4733