Re: [PHP Template] recursive templates
| From: | Andrei Zmievski | Date: | Fri, 18 Feb 2000 20:40:55 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [PHP Template] recursive templates | ||
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On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, waltb wrote:
> Why can't the included template know how to fill in the values? It kind of
>
> defeats the purpose of having included templates. In that case you may as
> well
> just have 1 template that draws everything, since it has to know all of the
> lower
> level variables anyways.
> What I want to be able to do, is have the 2nd and 3rd level templates
> describe how
> to fill in their respective template variables. That way, if you change
> the 2nd and 3rd
> level templates, the master doesn't have to know anything about it. Hence
> the ability
> of 1 php script that can handle a large group of pages, instead of only 1
> type of page.
How would you specify how the included templates fill in their values?
It's non-trivial with the exception of loading config files like I
described.
-Andrei
* Change is the only constant. *