PHP Variable vs Array vs Object

Question

This is probably considered a really silly question, but I\'m in the process of putting together a simple template system for a website and am trying to keep track of my var

Answer 1

Arrays

I would suggest on the backend part, keep everything stored in an array. This allows you to have only one variable to keep track of, and once you pass it to the frontend, you can extract() the array, to convert them into simple variables.

Syntax

Using extract() simplifies the syntax on the FrontEnd, which means you will only always have $varibles in the template.

On the backend you would set
$array['title'];

Which once extracted would in the template be
$title;

Example of a backend function

 protected function fetch($template, $data = null)
    {
        if (!$this->isTemplate($template)) {
            throw new Exception("Template file $this->_templatePath$template not found");
        }
        ob_start();
        if (is_array($data)) {
            extract($data, EXTR_SKIP);
        }
        require $this->_templatePath . $template . EXT;
        return ob_get_clean();
    }