What is the twig equivalent to this php snippet?

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I have a simple php call to insert content from a local non-php script. Twig isn’t making any sense to me and PHP is far from my normal scripting language. Does anyone know what the twig equivalent to this is?

<?php echo readfile('http://somedomain.com/somescript.mvc'); ?>

Thanks. I’m enjoying getting to know grav apart from having to deal with scripting languages that I’ve never seen before. Also, please don’t say “creat a plugin” - I do not have time for it at the moment.

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I tried putting this on the page:

{% include ‘http://somedomain.com/somescript.mvc’ %}

but it just prints it out as is. I don’t want to put this in a template because it’s only for the home page. I’m used to be able to script inside the page which makes it super easy to customize stuff on a page by page basis. Is this not really possible in grav?

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You’d really have to create a plugin to read the file - sorry - as Twig’s includes are purposed towards including templates. The .mvc file (not sure what format that is) would have to be parsed beforehand, or including it with Twig does very little.

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The mvc file is already parsed, the output is straight up HTML.

Is it possible to make a template for the home page only? That would be a step. It would be nice if you guys had a plugin avialable to inject remote content like this in it’s raw form (no iframes or third party go-betweens), I’m sure it would be useful for a lot of people.

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You can make as many templates as you want, so yes, you can have a template you only use for the home page and a different one for the other pages…or a different template for every page, for that matter.

Twig does not natively support remote includes. You would either have to write a twig extension plugin—à la something like this—or a simpler plugin that fetches and injects the content—see the plugin cookbook. I’m afraid a plugin of some kind or another is unavoidable in this use case.

If I have some time, I may try to code a generic remote fetch solution, but it may not serve your purposes. I would start with a simple shortcode that fetches and displays response body content.

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I figured out a work around by updating my script to export csv files and then using jquery to get and display the data. You know how it goes- when something’s been working for a while I’d like to just use it instead of spending a bunch of dev time on it. I will look into the templates and plugins in more depth when I get a chance, though. Thanks for your help and suggestions.