Easy template & linking query

[j0seph]

Hi,

 

Along time ago when I started looking at websites I began using frames so i could easily change the layout of my site, my friend then advised me to look at php and linked me to a script which did a similar thing minus the frames. The main page index.php for example is a template and if the about page is passed through in the url as index.php?page=about then the template index will display the about page. I see many sites that use this but what is it called? Also could anybody link me with a tutorial or sample code? As i have long forgotten what the website I was given was called and the name given to this system.

 

Many Thanks

Joe

[dough boy]

http://smarty.php.net

[j0seph]

it was alot simplier than this and wasnt a third party app - just some easy code for where the page would appear within a template

[dough boy]

You could just do a switch() statement.

 

i.e.

 

switch($_GET['page']) {
case about:
  $file = 'about';
    break;
case contact:
  $file = 'contact';
    break;
default:
  $file = 'index';
}

include($file.'.php');

or

include($_GET['page'].'.php');

[per1os]

Google search for Easy Template System

 

http://ets.sourceforge.net/