PHP templates - with PHP [closed]

Answer 1

Tiny But Strong

www.tinybutstrong.com

It doesn't make the smarty mistake of embedding another macro language in the page, but does allow you to handle every practical web display issue I've ever thrown at it. In particular the above odd/even constructs are a doddle. For something like your code selecting from a database table

In the PHP file

$TBS->MergeBlock('blk1',$sqlconnect, "SELECT name from people ");

And in the HTML file

<ul>
    <li class="odd">[blk.name;block=ul]</li>
    <li class="even">[blk.name;block=ul]</li>
</ul>

And that's it. Notice that the HTML is completely Dreamweaver compatible. Furthermore if I wanted to make that alternate over three line styles all I'd need to do is add the extra line, maybe with different classes, so

<ul>
    <li class="linestyle1">[blk.name;block=ul]</li>
    <li class="linestyle2">[blk.name;block=ul]</li>
    <li class="linestyle3">[blk.name;block=ul]</li>
</ul>

Answer 2

<?= ($i++ % 2 === 0) ? 'odd' : 'even' ?>

You're doing it the other way around. Your first item is now called even instead of odd. Use ++$i.

I'm having the same problem. But I think your original solution is the neatest. So I'll go with that.

Answer 3

I've used Smarty Template Engine in the past. It's Pretty solid. And as you can probably tell from the website; it has quite the large user-base and is updated regularly.

It's in pure PHP as well.

Answer 4

have you considered phptal?. one main benefit of it (or something similar) is that you get templates which can pass validation. most php template engines seem to ignore this.

Answer 5

Savant is a lightweight, pure PHP templating engine. Version 2 has a cycle plugin similar to the Smarty one mentioned earlier. I haven't been able to find a reference to the same plugin in version 3, but I'm sure you could write it fairly easily.

Answer 6

<?php
    define ('CRLF', "\r\n");
    $persons = array('John', 'Jack', 'Jill', 'Jason');

    $color = 'white'; // Init $color for striped list
    $ho = '<UL>' . CRLF; // Start HTML Output variable
    foreach ($persons as $name)
    {
       $ho .= '  <li class="' . $color . '">' . $name . '</li>' . CRLF;
       $color = ($color == 'white') ? 'grey' : 'white'; // if white, make it grey else white
    }
    $ho .= '</ul>' . CRLF;
    echo $ho;
?>