PHP templates - with PHP [closed]

Answer 1

I use PHPTAL for templating because it is written in 100% actual HTML with placeholder data, so it even works in a WYSIWYG editor for a web designer. That and it's just way easy to understand.

Here's what it would look like for me. Please forgive the markup, I'm new here and the four spaces block wasn't working right for me (the list was a list, not the markup).

PHP Code:

  $tal = new PHPTAL;
  $tal->setTemplate('people.htm')
      ->set('people', array('John', 'Jack', 'Jill', 'Jason'));
  echo $tal->execute();

Template:

  

    
John Doe
  

Output:

John

Jack

Jill

Jason

Now obviously I wouldn't make a template for this little, but I could use a macro for it or build a whole page and include that variable. But you get the idea. Using PHPTAL has just about tripled my speed at templating and programming, just by the simplicity (no new syntax to learn like smarty).