freebsdntu Posted December 22, 2007 Share Posted December 22, 2007 Hi guys, problem regarding template again. How do you write template?In php?Or to write in tpl file?Regarding tpl,how to write?I have searched on tpl, but haven't found any examples on how to write a tpl file. Thank you very much! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted December 22, 2007 Share Posted December 22, 2007 Here is a really simple way you can do it: <?php function load_template($tpl_name, array $arguments = array()) { foreach($arguments as $key => $value) { if($key == 'tpl_name') continue; // don't break it $$key = $value; } ob_start(); eval('?>' . file_get_contents('templates/' . $tpl_name . '.tpl.php')); $output = ob_get_contents(); ob_end_clean(); return $output; } echo load_template('test', array('title'=>'Test page', 'username'=>'Daniel')); ?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en-US" lang="en-US"> <head> <title><?php echo $title ?></title> </head> <body> <h1><?php echo $title ?></h1> <p>Hello <?php echo $username ?></p> </body> </html> Output: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en-US" lang="en-US"> <head> <title>Test page</title> </head> <body> <h1>Test page</h1> <p>Hello Daniel</p> </body> </html> Note: The syntax highlighting broke, but it does work. It doesn't really matter what you call your template files, PHP will parse it anyways. Some people just prefer to have a .tpl extension, you can use .php, .html or whatever you'd like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freebsdntu Posted December 22, 2007 Author Share Posted December 22, 2007 Thank you very much for your kind reply,Daniel0. It is very helpful to me. What I intend to do is do it in a modular fashion, with MVC pattern, ya, but I don't want to try the template engines like cakephp, smarty, etc. I would to create one on my own, also to cater for my own needs. Ok, let's say, in my template, there will be head section, menu section,sidebar section,main content section,footer section,etc,what I am trying to do now is to build a separate .tpl file for each section, but with customizable functionality, i.e. when applying the template head, I shall be able to specify the title of the page. What do you think of my approach? Any suggestions? It is still in my mind, I haven't have clear thoughts how to realize it in codes. So inputs would be greatly appreciated! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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