Re: templates with php

> I'm starting a new project from scratch and I my idea is do it with html > templates. What I mean is a directory with some templates like index.html, > details.html, checkout.html, etc, which one with symbols in it, like > @title@, @price@, @description@, etc... When the page is requested some > kind of pre-processor reads variables and show the dynamic page. My > question is how can I do that with php? What's the best way? My personal approach to this is to use an auto_prepend_file directive that tells PHP to automatically include a PHP script. Then in that I create the various functions and my "template" files are simple PHP files that simply call the functions. ie. <?title()?> <?price()?> <?description()?> I never understood why people are so insistent on using something like @title@ instead of <?title()?> at the cost of an order of magnitude of performance degradation. -Rasmus