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webosb

01-02-2008 02:47 PM

my way of templating, is this a good method?

in terms of speed and low cpu loads, is this a good way to go?

$html = file_get_contents("home.tpl");
$html = str_replace("%fname%", $firstname, $html);
$html = str_replace("%lname%", $lastname, $html);
echo $html;

TlcAndres

01-02-2008 02:59 PM

The method is fine, it doesn't allow for much growth templating wise though.

xenon

01-02-2008 03:08 PM

It's ok if you only need search&replace.

Salathe

01-02-2008 08:35 PM

This is more of a general comment than anything particularly specific to templating but remember that str_replace can accept arrays for the first three arguments (respectively: search, replace, subject). This saves the overhead of calling the same function more than once in succesion, and prevents you from repeating code unnecessarily. More simply, you could use:

PHP Code:

$html = str_replace(array('%fname%', '%lname%'), array($firstname, $lastname), $html);

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