Re: Including files for templates

On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 7:32 AM, Terry Burns-Dyson <hammerstein_02@msn.com> wrote: > I'm trying to write a template system, my template is the HTML layout, and > my content is fetched from another source. However I don't quite understand > how to output the template so that all the variables are parsed by PHP. > Simple version of what I'm trying to do; > > ob_start( ); > > extract( $params, EXTR_PREFIX_SAME, "am_"); > > $pageContent = file_get_contents( "page_to_display.html"); > > include( "template.html"); > > echo ob_get_clean( ); > > > $pageTitle is in the template, it's replaced, $pageContent is in the > template, it's replaced. But any variables within the page_to_display are > simply output into the page rather than processed by PHP. I realise that > file_get_contents is basically returning a string and I"m just doing string > replacement when I include the template.html, so my only question is, what's > the actual way of doing this? > > Thanks > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > I used to use this extract/include methodology before I really thought about the performance aspect of it. I would create a template object that could have variables injected into it and then tell it to render(). The render process would extract everything in the data array & include a template file. After I found out about xdebug I stopped doing this. Now my approach is more in line of the Zend_View[1] template engine. Just a generic class to define the path to the template, a way to put variables into it, and a render function. The big difference this time is that instead of extract I just use $this-> inside the template. [1] http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.view.html