Re: Custom Open Tags

Sven Schwyn wrote: > Hi folks > > Does anybody know whether there's a way to tell PHP to accept an > alternative open tag like for instance <?mytag or <?mc along with the > normal <?php tag? > > I'm looking for a way to have two kinds of PHP code in a page. The > first kind tagged <?mc ... ?> contains the PHP code to manage page > elements (like includes, menus etc) while the second kind tagged <?php > ... ?> contains normal PHP code for dynamic pages (like DB stuff). A > page resides on the Staging (Virtual) Host and contains both kind of > tags. When viewing the page on the Staging Host, both open tags are > executed. Yet when publishing a page to the Production (Virtual) Host, > the mc-tags are executed (and thus complete the page design) while the > php-tags are left untouched (as they contain the dynamic stuff). Sounds > more complicated than it is :-) I don't think you can do that in any efficient way with just tweaking PHP settings, or even PHP source... What you *COULD* do is write a PHP script to read your PHP script and http://php.net/eval the stuff inside of <?mytag tags, and leave the rest alone for the real PHP server to handle... <?php //Untested code: $file = implode('', file("$php_source")); $parts = explode('<?mytag', $file); $result = $part[0]; unset($parts[0]); while (list(, $part) = each($parts)){ $phphtml = explode('mytag?>', $part); $php = $phphtml[0]; $html = @$phphtml[1]; //File may end with mytag?> so squash error $result .= eval($php); $result .= $html; } //Dump $result into some file somewhere... ?> Sounds like you inventing yet another Template language, though, to tell you the truth, and there's already too many of them. :-) I happen to think PHP all by itself is more than sufficient, and if Graphic Designers can't cope with ignore the PHP tags, just hire different Graphic Designers. :-) You may want to look at Smarty and phplip (?) and some of the dozens of other PHP-based template solutions. Just cuz I hate them doesn't mean you will. :-P -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm