PHP & templates

[redneonrt]

I was looking at the some of the code that makes up PHPbb and what I see is the main page parses some sort of template.

If I open up the template file I see things like this:
[code]{SESSION}

{TITLE}
{HEADER}
[/code]

When the template is processed anything between {} gets converted to whichever variable is inside.

Hope all that made sense now what I want to do is have something like that in a program I am working on. Anybody know how I might go about this?

[Gaia]

You might want to take a look at some template engines such as [a href=\"http://smarty.php.net/\" target=\"_blank\"]Smarty[url] and [url=http://www.phpsavant.com/yawiki/]Savant[/a].

These may or may not be what you are generally wanting, but they might put you in the right direction on what to look for more better.

[obsidian]

if you're wanting to simply know HOW it's done, take a look at the code snippet below for a very basic example:

[code]
<?php
function replace_all($String, $values) {
  $tags = array();
  $rep = array();

  foreach ($values as $key => $value) {
    $tags[] = '{' . $key . '}';
    $rep[] = $value;
  }

  $String = str_replace($tags, $rep, $String);
  return $String;
}

$String = "{GREETING}<br />Thank you for coming today, {USER}!";

$replace = array("GREETING" => "Hello!", "USER" => "obsidian");

$String = replace_all($String, $replace);
echo $String;
?>
[/code]

hope this helps

[redneonrt]

[!--quoteo(post=364089:date=Apr 12 2006, 11:00 AM:name=obsidian)--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE(obsidian @ Apr 12 2006, 11:00 AM) [snapback]364089[/snapback][/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--quotec--]
if you're wanting to simply know HOW it's done, take a look at the code snippet below for a very basic example:


hope this helps
[/quote]

That looks more like what I am after.

Now any ideas how I would write that so that that function processes a .tpl file?

[obsidian]

[!--quoteo(post=364096:date=Apr 12 2006, 12:17 PM:name=redneonrt)--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE(redneonrt @ Apr 12 2006, 12:17 PM) [snapback]364096[/snapback][/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--quotec--]
That looks more like what I am after.

Now any ideas how I would write that so that that function processes a .tpl file?
[/quote]

well, you see where i've manually populated the $String variable? you just need to load the contents of the .tpl file into that variable, and it's the exact same principle:

[code]
$String = file_get_contents('myTemplate.tpl');

$replace = array("GREETING" => "Hello!", "USER" => "obsidian");

$String = replace_all($String, $replace);
echo $String;
[/code]

[redneonrt]

Thats great,

Thanks again everyone!