Re: AGAIN: [PHP] extracting words from templates

On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Jim Brown, Sr. wrote: > Greetings, > > I've got a question: > > What's the best way to extract a word from inside a template variable? If the > variable in the template is '%%TITLE%%', how could I just extract 'TITLE' > from > it so I can make it '$TITLE' in my script which will print the title when I call > 'print "<TITLE>$TITLE</TITLE>";'?? I'm sure there's a simple way to loop through the file with regex, but I'll make a suggestion based on what I do. Instead of: <TITLE>%%TITLE%%</TITLE> Do: <TITLE><?=$TITLE?></TITLE> <?=$var?> is shorthand for <? echo $var; ?> It's short and easy; much easier for implementing templates in PHP. And if you already have implemented it this way, just take my suggestion with a grain of salt, and wait for the regex guys to answer. Dean. > > Here's what I'm doing now: > > $header = file('includes/header.inc'); > while (list(,$val) = each($header)) { > if (eregi('%%TITLE%%', "$val")) { > $title = str_replace('%%TITLE%%', "$TITLE", "$val"); > echo "$title"; > } > elseif (eregi('%%BGCOLOR%%', "$val")) { > $body = str_replace('%%BGCOLOR%%', "$BGCOLOR", "$val"); > echo "$body"; > } > else { > echo "$val"; > } > } > > > TIA > >