How to pass parameters to PHP template rendered with 'include'?

Question

need your help with PHP templating. I\'m new to PHP (I\'m coming from Perl+Embperl). Anyway, my problem is simple:

• I have a small template to render some item, let

Answer 1

I use the following helper functions when I work on simple websites:

function function_get_output($fn)
{
  $args = func_get_args();unset($args[0]);
  ob_start();
  call_user_func_array($fn, $args);
  $output = ob_get_contents();
  ob_end_clean();
  return $output;
}

function display($template, $params = array())
{
  extract($params);
  include $template;
}

function render($template, $params = array())
{
  return function_get_output('display', $template, $params);
}

display will output the template to the screen directly. render will return it as a string. It makes use of ob_get_contents to return the printed output of a function.