Re: templating

On 22/06/06, Miles Thompson <miles@allnovascotia.com> wrote:

At 08:10 AM 6/22/2006, Ryan A wrote: Hi, A pal of mine needed some help on his project, he is using a "header" and "footer" file to "template" his project... but its gotten a bit complicated as he has a few dynamic parts in the header and footer files, so I told him to go with a proper templating method of templating the whole page rather than includ()ing the top and bottom. After having a better look at his scripts, I am just not sure if something big (like SMARTY for instance) would be good for him. He just needs maybe 5 template pages, same pages, different color. Searching google I see literally hundreds of "templating solutions" can anyone recommend a simple one or should I tell him to just use str_replace() for tags like: {{menu_here}} {{header_here} etc? Something like SMARTY would be like using a nuke to kill a fly (IMHO) esp since this project will not expand to anything much bigger or complicated. Thanks! Ryan I agree with Ryan - here is an example of a simple template I am using on a project at the moment. Stylesheets are used to control look and feel and the body tag is assigned a class so that different pages can use different layout elements. Hope this helps.

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