method for creating PHP templates (ie html with variables)?

Question

I\'m designing my html emails, these are to be a block of html containing variables that i can store in a $template variable.

My problem comes with the storing in the va

Answer 1

If you are not against using a framework piece for this, go for Zend_View.

With Zend_View you can write your templates in pure PHP, and it also comes with lots of helpers to generate HTML output.

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You could also use the include() and extract() functions to create your own template mechanism :

$model = array('foo' => 'bar', 'baz' => array('bat', 'qux'));
extract($model);
include('template.php');

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