note 99118 added to function.eval

Here i can see a lot of people does the same than me, use the eval() to manage templates. I've found a nice way to put this inside a function, so the code gets cleaner function process_template($tpl) { $html = file_get_contents("tpl/$tpl"); preg_match_all("|(\$\w+)\W|Us", $html, $vars); if(is_array($vars[1])) { eval("global ".implode(", ", $vars[1]).";"); } eval('$html = strislashes("'.addslashes($html).'");'); return $html; } echo process_template("some.html"); So first you need to look for variables inside the template, then use eval() to get their values from outside the function. Then just evaluate the html in the usual form NOTE: this only works when calling from outside a function, because variables inside a function do not share memory within another function. A trick is to pass another param, using the result of a call to "get_defined_vars()" and istead of globalize the template's variables, grabing the values from the defined vars array (get_defined_vars() should be run when you call this func, ej: echo process_template("some.html", get_defined_vars()); ) ---- Server IP: 201.216.232.3 Probable Submitter: 190.55.170.233 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.eval.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/99118 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/99118/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/99118/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/99118/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/99118/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/99118/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/99118/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/99118 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/99118 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php