RE: [PHP] Is this doable?

Can PHP do that? Of course. Can it do it that easily right out of the box. No. Just like the RXML backend is already written that parses <accessed per="day" /> into the appropriate number, the backend would have to be written for PHP to do the same thing. You'd have to write a template engine, basically, that'll look for special tags and do the appropriate PHP functions when it encounters them. I think you'd be far better off learning PHP and just adapting an existing template engine to suit your needs. There are plenty of them out there. ---John Holmes... > -----Original Message----- > From: Sandman [mailto:mr@sandman.net] > Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 4:36 PM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] Is this doable? > > I am currently using Roxen and it's built-in pike-based markup language > RXML for my dynamic websites. PHP is naturally alot more flexible than > RXML, but there are some thing I -really- like about Roxen that I don't > know if I can have PHP replicate, please tell me if anything of the > following is doable (and preferably how): > > Tags. > I -really- like the fact that RXML comes with XML-like tags for it's > built-in features, like the tag "<accessed />", where I can do stuff like: > > <accessed per="day" /> visitors per day. > > This is naturally just an example, but the thing I like is how I don't > need > to escape from HTML syntax and into a programming language unless it's > neccesary for the built-in function. > > > My own tags. > In RXML, I can define my own tags, like this: > > <define tag="line"> > <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"> > <tr> > <td bgcolor="#000000"><img src="space.gif" > width="1" height="1" /> > </tr> > </table> > </define> > > This way, everytime I use "<line />" in the page, it will exapnd to the > above, which very well could contain other RXML commands like SQL > connectivity and such. > > > My own containers. > In the same way, I can define containers, like: > > <define container="headline"> > <span class="headline"><contents /></span> > </define> > > And when I type "<headline>Hello</headline>" '<contents > />' is replaced > with "Hello", of course. > > > Now, what I would like is to mix regular PHP syntax with my made up tags. > Is there a way for me to have <foo /> parsed into a php-script in the > page? > Maybe something like this, in pseudo-code: > > > define_container("headline"){ > print "<span class=\"headline\">$_[0]</span>"; > } > > And so on... Do you understand what I am getting at? > Is there a parse-module for apache that I can have parse the HTML file > this > way and have it execute things it recognizes? > > > Oh, and another question, in perl there is the "print qq{Hello "Sandman"}; > function, where you can use '"' how much you like, I do really hate to > metaquote everything I do in PHP, so is there a similar function, and > preferably not the "print <<KEYWORD;" variant. > > Anyway, thanks in advance, or something :) > > -- > Sandman[.net] > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php