Greetings! I am currently making a few projects, but I am very worried about how I should do my templating system so I do not at some point regret how I did it, and want to recode it!
Basically, I just want to insert informations into my sites easily but also, it shouldn't become a mess with shit loads of php calls inside the HTML. I could pretty easily do something like this:
PHP Code:
<?php $articles = $object->fetchArticles(); ?>
<?php foreach ($articles as $article) : ?>
<h1><?php echo $article['title']; ?></h1>
<p><?php echo $article['content']; ?></p>
<?php endforeach; ?>
That'd basically just require the fetchArticles method to return an array, containing an array for each article:
Example:
PHP Code:
public function fetchArticles() {
$query = connectToDbAndRetrieveInformation();
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($query)) {
$data[] = array(
'title' => $row['title'],
'content' => $row['content']
// And for more fancy stuff something like this:
'time' => $this->timeDifference($row['time']),
'author' => $this->authorName($row['author_id'])
);
}
return $data;
}
However, this probably is a pretty bad way to do it (I think?), I don't want to use something big as Smarty and have a whole different weird markup (the foreach loops in smarty are just weird) for the foreach loops. (And it's slooow.. And I won't need half the features) I have made some pretty simple stuff involving replacing {something} with a variable set. However, I can't use PHP in the template file (like if I needed to check something before printing something out, like if the user is administrator). Here is what I have currently:
PHP Code:
<?php
class Template {
private $path = 'template/';
private $values = array();
private function __set($name, $value) {
$this->values[$name] = $value;
}
public function display($file) {
$file = $this->path . $file;
$file_content = file_get_contents($file);
foreach ($this->values as $key => $value) {
$file_content = str_replace('{' . $key. '}', $value, $file_content);
}
echo $file_content;
}
}
?>
Maybe this could be expanded to be useful?
I hope I can get some help on doing this part properly. :)
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