October 20th, 2004, 01:07 AM
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RE: Template system
That depends on the engine you use, the syntax varies. But, in general, you have a PHP file that takes care of the programming aspect, and sends the results in the form of variables to the template, which is simple HTML with some custom tags for dynamic content. So in reality you would have two files for each page: a .php file and a .tpl (or whatever) page. Here is an example, using Smarty:
PHP file (index.php):
php Code:
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// load Smarty library require('Smarty.class.php'); $smarty = new Smarty; $smarty->template_dir = '/web/www.mydomain.com/smarty/guestbook/templates/'; $smarty->compile_dir = '/web/www.mydomain.com/smarty/guestbook/templates_c/'; $smarty->config_dir = '/web/www.mydomain.com/smarty/guestbook/configs/'; $smarty->cache_dir = '/web/www.mydomain.com/smarty/guestbook/cache/'; $smarty->assign('name','Ned'); $smarty->display('index.tpl');
Template file (index.tpl):
{* Smarty *}
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Hi, {$name}</h1>
</body>
</html>
<!-- End of index.tpl -->
That's the very basic of course. Most template engines can also loop through arrays, perform basic mathematic calculations and so forth.
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