Include a file before current template file

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I would like to include two files before and after current template.
I am using template_redirect to do this,

But when I call get_current_template() inside template_redirect it returns nothing.

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is there a way to solve this ??

here is my code: 

// current template file
add_filter( 'template_include', 'var_template_include', 1000 );
function var_template_include( $t ){
    $GLOBALS['current_theme_template'] = basename($t);
    return $t;
}

function get_current_template() {
    if( !isset( $GLOBALS['current_theme_template'] ) )
        return false;
    if( $echo )
        echo $GLOBALS['current_theme_template'];
    else
        return $GLOBALS['current_theme_template'];
}

// use template redirect to include file
add_action('template_redirect', 'ra_template_block');
function ra_template_block() {
        include_once THEME_DIR.'/blockstop.php';
    get_template_part(get_current_template());      
    include_once THEME_DIR.'/blocks.php';
    exit;
}

Way I am doing this
I want to set page layout from a file. I need to include below tags every time in my template file:

  • get_header()
  • get_footer()
  • get_sidebar()
  • get_template_part('right')
  • get_template_part('left')

So if I can set them from a specific file, then I dont need to include them in every template file.

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  1. template_redirect runs before template_include. You can demonstrate that with this:

    add_filter( 'template_include', 'var_template_include', 1000 );
function var_template_include( $t ){
  echo __FUNCTION__;
}
// use template redirect to include file
add_action('template_redirect', 'ra_template_block');
function ra_template_block() {
  echo __FUNCTION__;  
}

    Or you could just look at the source: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/3.5.2/wp-includes/template-loader.php

    Since your code exits in template_redirect the global that get_current_template depends upon never gets set, and even if you didn’t exit it would be set too late.

    You need the template path passed into template_include so if you just hook both filters to that hook and give them a priority so that the one always loads before the other this should work, at least insofar as setting and retrieving that global.

    // current template file
add_filter( 'template_include', 'var_template_include', 1000 );
function var_template_include( $t ){
  var_dump($t);
  $GLOBALS['current_theme_template'] = basename($t);
  return $t;
}

// use template redirect to include file
add_action('template_include', 'ra_template_block', 1001);
function ra_template_block() {
//     include_once THEME_DIR.'/blockstop.php';
    var_dump(get_template_part(get_current_template()));      
//     include_once THEME_DIR.'/blocks.php';
    exit;
}

    Of course, there is no real reason for two filters. One would do just as well.

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