how to add a new phtml file into another file

Question

I added like that in page.xml

<block type="page/html_banner" name="banner" as="banner" template="page/html/banner.phtml">
</block>

but didn't get the template.

please any one suggest me.

Answer 1

<block type="page/html_banner" name="banner" as="banner" template="page/html/banner.phtml">

  <block type="page/html_banner" name="custom" as="custom" template="page/html/custom.phtml"> 
   </block>

In banner.phtml you can call $this->getChildHtml('custom'); to access custom.phtml inside banner.phtml

(or)

Try the below code inside banner.phtml,

$this->getLayout()->createBlock('page/html_banner')->setTemplate('page/html/custom.phtml')->toHtml();