[Template System] customs tags?

[Strike X]

Is there any template system allow you to create customs tags?

 

For example:

 

For example, this creates a macro variable that prints a big  "Hello Joe!'':

<#macro greet person>
  <font size="+2">Hello ${person}!</font>
</#macro>   

 

 

and then you can use this macro as:

	
<@greet person="Fred"/> and <@greet person="Batman"/>

 

Output, This will print on the browser:

  <font size="+2">Hello Fred!</font>
and   <font size="+2">Hello Batman!</font>

 

I got this example from freemarker http://freemarker.sourceforge.net/docs/dgui_misc_userdefdir.html (For Java) but I am looking similar to this for PHP, I can't find it.  ???

[corbin]

As far as I know, no template engine in PHP does that.

 

 

You could probably mod one to do it though.

[Eric_Ryk]

Although there is nothing that has "macros" this really could be accomplished through sub-templating, ie: putting a template within a template (or loading a template into a variable and then passing that value to another template, either one accomplishes the same thing).

[Strike X]

As far as I know, no template engine in PHP does that.

 

You could probably mod one to do it though.

 

I see, I might try to develop it.

 

Can you please give me some of advice how to implement this? and what PHP functions to use to parse custom tags.

[corbin]

You'll want to look into the regexp functions.

 

php.net/preg_replace for example

[dclamp]

I am pretty sure you can do something like that in SMARTY. but i am not 100%

[corbin]

A template class that I wrote could do it, but it would be ghetto.

 

 

It would involve lots and lots and lots of unnecessary execution for my code to do it.  (It would have to be templates in a template.)