trying to learn php4lib templates

Ok, I'm trying to teach phplib and I'm having some problems getting the concept down. These are two very basic templates and I'd like to use as a basis for a shopping cart that I can include inline wherever necessary. Here is what I have, but be warned I have been reading and changing and trying different things all day and I just can't get it to synch . I know once I get a firm grasp on how this works I'll be off and running so if anyone here can help I would be very happy I've had it sorta of working once or twice by leaving out the mysql_fetch_array, but of course I dont' get any data returned. I know this is a lot to post in one chunk in a message but just maybe I can learn something here, I've read so much documentation I've got a headache, if I can only get it once I'll know it. I learn best by doing. Thanks Mark mfaine@bellsouth.net mark.faine@msfc.nasa.gov TEMPLATES: main.ihtml ------------------------------------------------------------ <!-- BEGIN: Main.ihtml --> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>{PAGETITLE}</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <H2>{HEADER}</h2> {out} </BODY> </HTML> <!-- END: Main.ihtml --> -------------------------------------------------------------------- cart.ithml ----------------------------------------------------------------------- <!-- BEGIN: cart.ihtml --> <table> <tr> <td align=left colspan=6 valign=top bordercolor="#000000"><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Your Cart Status:</font><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> {STATUS}</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align=left valign=top bgcolor="#6b79d6" bordercolor="#000000"><font color="#ffff66" size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Item</font></td> <td align=left valign=top bgcolor="#6b79d6" bordercolor="#000000"><font color="#ffff66" size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Title</font></td> <td align=left valign=top bgcolor="#6b79d6" bordercolor="#000000"><font color="#ffff66" size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Revision</font></td> <td align=left valign=top bgcolor="#6b79d6" bordercolor="#000000"><font color="#ffff66" size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Pages</font></td> <td align=left valign=top bgcolor="#6b79d6" bordercolor="#000000"><font color="#ffff66" size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Remove</font></td></TD> </tr> <!-- BEGIN row --> <tr> <td>{ITEM}</td> <td>{TITLE}</td> <td>{REVISION}</td> <td>{PAGES}</td> <td>{REMOVE}</td> </tr> <!-- END row --> </table> <!-- END: cart.ihtml --> -------------------------------------------- SCRIPT - index.php -------------------------------------------- <? include 'database.php'; include 'template.inc'; # Create new instance of template called $t $t = new Template("$DOCUMENT_ROOT/ihtml/", "comment"); # Set up files $t->set_file( array ( "main" => "main.ihtml", "cart" => "cart.ihtml")) ; # define variables named main and cart, referencing files $sys_dbtable='contents'; $sys_dbhost='localhost'; $sys_dbuser='root'; $sys_dbpasswd='8704'; $sys_dbname='cart'; # do db query here $query="select * from $sys_dbtable"; $result = @mysql_db_query("$sys_dbname","$query"); $qresult=@msyql_fetch_array($result); # assign results of query $link = '<a href="./cart.php?action=remove&item="'. $qresult["id"]. '">Remove</a>'; $t->set_var( array ( "ITEM" =>$qresult["item"], "TITLE" =>$qresult["title"], "REVISION" =>$qresult["revision"], "PAGES" =>$qresult["pages"], "REMOVE" => $link )); if(@mysql_num_rows($qresult) != 0) { $status = @mysql_num_rows($qresult); }else{ $status = "Your Cart is empty"; } $t->set_var( array ("HEADER" => "MSFC Shopping Cart Test", "PAGETITLE" => "Marks Test")); $t->set_var ("STATUS", "$status"); # extract block named "row" from cart and assign it to page $t->set_block("cart", "row", "page"); # after setting variables, append row contents to page $t->parse("page", "row", true); # Build out from cart, then build out from main $t->parse("out", array ( "cart", "main")); #finish out and print it $t->p("out"); ?> <HR> # report leftover variables if any <? print implode(", ", $t->get_undefined("page")); ?> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for even bothering to look at it -Mark