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#61

December 20th, 2006, 05:19 PM

adijux

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RE: RE: help : looping for template

Quote:

After spending ages trying to get it to work, I ended up creating my own. I was able to use the explode function to basically recognise loops, like this:

template.tpl

Code:

<table width="100%" border="0" align="center">
<tr>
<td class="thead"><b>Name</b></td>
<td class="thead"><b>Email</b></td>
<td class="thead"><b>Online?</b></td>
</tr>
<!-- BEGIN user_loop -->
<tr>
<td class="row1">{USERNAME}</td>
<td class="row2">{USEREMAIL}</td>
<td class="row1">{ONLINESTATUS}</td>
</tr>
<!-- END user_loop -->

And then the php:

php Code:

Original - php Code
$explode = explode("<!-- START member_list -->", file_get_contents("LOCATION OF TPL FILE")); $explode2 = explode("<!-- END member_list -->", $explode[1]); $main=$explode[0]; $main=replace("{THMNAME}", $_SESSION['theme'], $main); //query here while($r=mysql_fetch_array($sql)) { $main .=$explode2[0]; //here you need to do str_replace to replace the vars in the template } echo $main;

 
$explode = explode("<!-- START member_list -->", file_get_contents("LOCATION OF TPL FILE"));
 
$explode2 = explode("<!-- END member_list -->", $explode[1]);
 
$main=$explode[0];
$main=replace("{THMNAME}", $_SESSION['theme'], $main);
//query here
while($r=mysql_fetch_array($sql)) {
$main .=$explode2[0];
//here you need to do str_replace to replace the vars in the template
}
echo $main;

And that is a simple way of getting it to work

Yeah, this goes pretty nice, but it's a bit too simple and not so dynamical as I want to make it.
All I want to do is fix looping and make variables like that:

Code:

{Users.Id} {Users.Name} {Users.Homepage}

and so on..

I spent few weeks trying to find templating class which could include subtemplate files into main template file AND work with variables.

php Code:

Original - php Code
<?php $tpl = new template('main.tpl'); $tpl->assign(array( 'text' => 'Some text goes here', 'title' => 'Problem which needs to be fixed', 'content' => 'news.tpl') ); $tpl->output(); ?>

<?php
$tpl = new template('main.tpl');
 
$tpl->assign(array(
'text' => 'Some text goes here',
'title' => 'Problem which needs to be fixed',
'content' => 'news.tpl')
);
 
$tpl->output();
?>

main.tpl:

Code:

<html>
<head>
<title>{title}</title>
</head>
<body>
{content}
</body>
</html>

and news.tpl:

Code:

{text}

So these variables would work and output what I need: {title} {content}, but variable {text} wouldn't output what I need (this problem was in almost all classes I tried). But this class outputs {text}.. and I can't understand why it is not working in other classes.. any ideas?

#62

April 20th, 2007, 08:23 AM

KKmaddog

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RE: help : looping for template

not sure if you still reading this but hey this topic is something im interested in so ill get it started again.

What you have to do is separate the function that inputs files and the function that replaces tags.

Heres the php code

php Code:

Original - php Code

 
<?php
 
class Page
{
  var $page;
  
  var $DYNAMIC = array();
 
  function Page($template = "index.html") {
    if (file_exists("template/".$template))
      $this->page = join("", file("template/".$template));
    else
      die("Template file $template not found.");
  }
 
  function parse($file) {
    ob_start();
    include($file);
    $buffer = ob_get_contents();
    ob_end_clean();
    return $buffer;
  }
  
  function file_replace($file = array()) {
    if (sizeof($file) > 0)
      foreach ($file as $name => $loc) {
        $loc = (file_exists($loc)) ? $this->parse($loc) : "";
        $this->page = str_replace("{" . $name. "}", $loc,
                      $this->page);
      }
    else
      die("No file designated for inclusion.");
  }
 
  function replace_tags($tags = array()) {
    if (sizeof($tags) > 0)
    {
      foreach ($tags as $tag => $data) 
      {
 
        $this->page = str_replace("{" . $tag . "}", $data,
                      $this->page);
      }
    }
    else
    {
      die("No tags designated for replacement.");
    }
  }
  
?>

and in the index.php file which is the template file that calls this class you put

php Code:

Original - php Code

 
 
<?php
 
require_once("template_control.php");
 
$page = new Page();
 
//this has to go before replacing the tags
$page->file_replace(array(
  "head" => "template/header.html",
  "menu" => "template/main_nav.html",
  "left" => "template/sec_nav.html",
  "right" => "template/content.html",
  "footer" => "template/footer.html"
));
 
//this has to go after you include the files
$page->replace_tags(array(
  "TITLE" => "Testing templating system!",
  "HEADER" => "Welcome to my website!",
  
  "FOOTER" => "the footer is copywrited on."
));
 
$page->output();
 
?>

#63

March 18th, 2008, 05:02 PM

Rutjes

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I'm sorry for bumping up this old topic but I was wondering if someone knows how to include sub template files in the main template file by using lines like:



Any help will be greatly appriciated.

Clint.

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