templates rather than echo?

[forcer]

i'm having a go at creating my own news system and i hate editing html within a echo ""; element

 

i've got forms and divs elements that make up the html pages but are outputted with echo.

 

how would i implement a skinning or template system so all the forms and html are seperate pages...

[mbeals]

may or may not help, but you know you can mix php and html right?

 

This is valid code:

 

<?php
$test = 1;
$test2 = 2;
$test3 = array("one" => 1, "two"=> 2, "three"=> 3);
?>

<table>
  <tr>
     <td><?=$test?></td>
     <td><?=$test2?></td>
  </tr>
<?
  foreach($test3 as $key => $value){ ?>
  <tr>
     <td><?=$key?></td>
     <td><?=$value?></td>
  </tr>

<? }?>
</table>

 

Not a single echo statement and my html is basically how it would be without the php at all. 

[MatthewJ]

short tags are the devils playground

 

Or something like that...

 

 

 

[waynew]

Use smarty.

[forcer]

thanks i'll check it out...

 

any other suggestions?