Re: Fastest templating mechanism

Joe Wollard wrote:

Evert, Have you looked at smarty (http://smarty.php.net) ? It doesn't do exactly what you're talking about but it seems to be the "Fastest templating mechanism" that I've tested; probably one of the most versatile as well. Cheers! -Joe www.joewollard.com Evert | Rooftop Solutions wrote:

Hi all, I'm working on a template system which works a bit like a text translation block. The data looks for example like: beginblock <div class="block"> endblock </div> beginauthor <span class="author"> endauthor </div> The list is going to be very large, it will have several overlays and not all pages need all items in the list. (usually just a fraction) What will be the smartest way to implement this? I need a low-memory cost and fast solution I can do it with a php script, like: $list = array( 'beginblock' => '<div class="block">', etc. ); but this will use up too much memory. I could additionally do it with a textfile, but if I need to loop through it at every lookup it will be slow.. What are your suggestions? regards, Evert Hi everyone,

Thanks for your replies. I Think I haven't been very clear about what I really need. First of all, I don't need an existing templating system, because I am working on my own templating system. And regarding Satyam's post. This looks a lot like what I'm developing right now, but also not my issue =) What I really need is a fast lookup mechanism, to 'translate' statements. For example: setOutputType('xhtml'); echo(translate('authorstart')); the function translate opens xhtml.data, which contains: authorstart : <span class="author"> authorend : </span> so, the translate function looks 'authorstart' up and returns '<span class="author">' or if you had specified 'wml' as the outputtype, the file could like like: authorstart : <b> authorend : </b> and the function would return '<b>' This is all no problem, except that these lists can be pretty big. And I wouldn't like to load them all into the memory, or have to loop through the file every time translate is called. So I need a very fast mechanism to overcome this problem. Any ideas? grt, Evert