RE: [PHP] Easy Template class?

Joe, This is the first time i program with Templates (as you might have noticed)... And i have decided to do this because we are now working with a company that is desigining our site... The designers do not work directly with us programmers, so it is best to just have the design come in in "Templates" than just cutting and pasting thousands of lines of HTML, into thousands of lines of PHP... It does start to make sense.... I am also using a class called GENERALIZED_CACHED_TEMPLATE, and this allows me to interface with many templkate styles, and also allows me to Cache ANY output... Basically, i create ONE copy of a page (That can take upto 2 - 5secs - depending on MySQL queries, for example), and then server subsequent requests to that page from a disk copy, and the 2 - 5 secs, takes about 0.05secs on a RAID5 SCSI! or about 0.09 on my home ATA IDE...! This, combined with the ease of talking to "dumb*" designers is reason enough to convince me! ------------------------ dumb: refers to people who are not "PHP Compliant" :) > -----Original Message----- > From: Joe Stump [mailto:joe@earth.care2.com] > Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 2:21 AM > To: Lawrence.Sheed@dfait-maeci.gc.ca > Cc: roy@vem.ca; php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP] Easy Template class? > > > Can I ask why you guys add another layer of fat to your > programming? Stuff > like this has never made much sense to me... > > --Joe > > On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 10:21:46PM -0500, > Lawrence.Sheed@dfait-maeci.gc.ca wrote: > > I generally build a string in row/table stuff, and blat > that out into my > > placeholder. > > > > So instead of > > > > <!-- BEGIN myrows --> > > <b>{rowelement}</b><br> > > <b>{rowelement1}</b><br> > > <b>{rowelement2}</b><br> > > <!-- END myrows --> > > > > I do: > > > > <!-- BEGIN myrows --> > > <b>{rowelement}</b><br> > > <!-- END myrows --> > > > > $sqlstring = "SELECT * FROM users"; > > $result=@mysql_query($sqlstring,$db); > > if ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) { > > do { > > $string = $string . "<td>".$row ["username"] . > "</td></tr>"; > > } while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)); > > } > > > > ParseFile ($content, "{rowelement}", $string); > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Roy Nasser [mailto:roy@vem.ca] > > Sent: November 13, 2000 12:17 PM > > To: 'Lawrence.Sheed@dfait-maeci.gc.ca'; php-general@lists.php.net > > Subject: RE: [PHP] Easy Template class? > > > > > > But this wont be able to get me "row" support, would it? > > > > Like: > > > > <!-- BEGIN myrows --> > > <b>{rowelement}</b><br> > > <!-- END myrows --> > > > > and then when called something like: > > > > > > $t->SetVarRow("MyTemplateA","myrows","rowelement",$RowElem); > > > > in a for, or somethng,... > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Lawrence.Sheed@dfait-maeci.gc.ca > > > [mailto:Lawrence.Sheed@dfait-maeci.gc.ca] > > > Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 1:06 AM > > > To: roy@vem.ca; php-general@lists.php.net > > > Subject: RE: [PHP] Easy Template class? > > > > > > > > > I do something along the lines of the code below. > > > > > > template_class.php > > > <?php > > > > > > function LoadFile ($filename){ > > > if (file_exists($filename)) { > > > $fd = fopen( $filename, "r" ); > > > $contents = fread( $fd, filesize( $filename ) ); > > > //fclose( $fd ); > > > } > > > else { > > > $contents = "<br><font color=red>Unable to > > > open:$filename</font></br>"; > > > } > > > return ($contents); > > > } > > > > > > function ParseFile (&$contents,$item,$newvalue) { > > > $contents = ereg_replace ($item,$newvalue,$contents); > > > } > > > ?> > > > > > > Example parser > > > > > > <?php > > > include "template_class.php"; > > > $contents = LoadFile ("example.html"); > > > > > > ParseFile ($contents, "{TITLE}", "my brand new title here"); > > > > > > print ($contents); > > > > > > ?> > > > > > > > > > example.html > > > <html> > > > <title> > > > {TITLE} > > > </title> > > > stuff here... > > > {MENU} > > > </html> > > > > > > > > > To embed one file within another, you can do: > > > > > > > > > example2.html > > > <menu stuff here> > > > ... > > > </menu stuff> > > > > > > > > > 2nd_example.php > > > <?php > > > include "template_class.php"; > > > $contents = LoadFile ("example.html"); > > > $menu = LoadFile ("example2.html"); > > > > > > ParseFile ($contents, "{TITLE}", "my brand new title here"); > > > ParseFile ($contents, "{MENU}",$menu); > > > > > > print ($contents); > > > > > > ?> > > > > > > Simple hey! > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > Lawrence. > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Roy Nasser [mailto:roy@vem.ca] > > > Sent: November 13, 2000 11:12 AM > > > To: Php (E-mail) > > > Subject: RE: [PHP] Easy Template class? > > > > > > > > > I think i moaned a little bit too much in my last e-mail but > > > didnt provide > > > any suggestions for what i wanted... Here goes: > > > > > > I think that Instead of having a set_var with jsut the name > > > of the template > > > variable and the value, it should be something like: > > > > > > Set_Var("SomeVariable",$SomeValue,"MyTemplateA"); > > > Set_Var("SomeDifferentVariable",$SomeOtherValue,"MyTemplateB"); > > > > > > And then something like: > > > > > > Embed_Template("Menu","MyTemplateA","MyTemplateB"); > > > > > > What this would do is: > > > > > > #1: {SomeVariable} in MyTemplateA would become $SomeValue > > > #2: {SomeDifferentVariable} in MyTemplateB would become > > > $SomeOtherValue > > > #3: {Menu} in MyTemplateA would become MyTemplateB with > > > everything that has > > > been done to it (Such as the {SomeVariable}) > > > > > > Thanks again.... > > > > > > > > > > > > Roy Nasser > > > CTO > > > Vem Cá Servicos de Internet S/C Ltda. > > > Av. Paulista 2421 14* Andar > > > São Paulo SP Brasil > > > 55 11 3347 3456 / 9953 8853 - cel > > > www.jarbas.com.br > > > roy@vem.ca > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > > > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > > > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: > > > php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > > > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: > php-list-admin@lists.php.net > ============================================================== > ================== > = Joe Stump joestump98@yahoo.com > http://www.miester.org = > ============================================================== > ================== > "Real programmers don't comment their code. > It was hard to write, it should be hard to understand." >