ta2 Posted April 26, 2008 Share Posted April 26, 2008 I'm building a very big website, and for the PHP+XHTML documents, I use a template. For example (highly simplified): home.php: include template.php function mainContent() { echo('content here'); } template.php: echo('<html><head><style type="text/css" src="style.css" /></head><body>'); mainContent(); echo('</body></html>'); On the other hand, we use this approach where I work: home.php: include template.php header(); echo('content here'); footer(); template.php: function header() { echo('<html><head><style type="text/css" src="style.css" /></head><body>'); mainContent(); } function footer() { echo('</body></html>'); } The first approach is a lot nice imo, but in some cases I have to selectively include template.php where some executions of the script result in new header information being sent. This results in code repetition (having to add "include template.php" in multiple places) and hard to read code. Are there any other ways of doing it beside these? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sKunKbad Posted April 26, 2008 Share Posted April 26, 2008 include "header.inc"; include "leftandtop-template.inc"; // mysql query for specific page content include "rightandfooter-template.inc"; Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hitman6003 Posted April 26, 2008 Share Posted April 26, 2008 An example: http://www.codewalkers.com/c/a/Display-Tutorials/Writing-a-Template-System-in-PHP/ If you are really looking at a large scale site, I would use a framework of some sort...makes life somewhat easier. I like zend framework personnally. http://framework.zend.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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