PHP templates - with PHP [closed]

Answer 1

I created a simple templating system in PHP to solve this problem a while ago:

http://code.google.com/p/templatephp/

It takes a multidimensional array, and requires the addition of some extra tags to the HMTL to create the combined template.

It's not as complicated (albeit powerful) as Smarty and some other solutons, but wins out in simplicity a lot of the time. A demo of the menu creation:

Main Menu

{block:menu_items}
        
{var:name}
{/block:menu_items}

Merged with...

    array (
        'menu_items' => array (
                array (
                        'link' => 'home.htm',
                        'name' => 'Home'
                ),
                array (
                        'link' => 'about.htm',
                        'name' => 'About Us'
                ),
                array (
                        'link' => 'portfolio.htm',
                        'name' => 'Portfolio'
                ),
                array (
                        'link' => 'contact.htm',
                        'name' => 'Contact Us'
                )
        )
);

Will create the menu...

Main Menu

        
Home
        
About Us
        
Portfolio
        
Contact Us