Hi... I could do with some help with PHP...

Basically Im building a template class which I have now finished.. its fairly simple though.

At the moment ive dne it so that i use tags like {TITLE} into the template and these work fine... however i need something more complex...

At the moment i define these tags with an array.. It is:

PHP Code:

$tags=array(
'TITLE'=>'This is my title',
'WELCOME'=>'This is my welcome message'
); 


Now what I want to do is to be able to put in my template the tag {LISTUSERS}

This needs to then output a table which has got a list of all the users in a mysql database... kind of like a while statement.

How can I do this?

Thanks

Why not just download one of the tried and tested templates from sourceforge.

I use XTemplate and it has all this stuff you need boxed off nicely. Xtemplate allows you to assign tags and parse blocks giving you a truely flexible framework for your pages.

XTemple pregs around for <!-- BEGIN: and <!-- END: blocks (you can even nest these.
So an example would be.

<!-- BEGIN: main -->
<!-- BEGIN: body -->
 {value}
<!-- BEGIN: body -->
<!-- END: main -->

I think that other template systems work in a similar fashion but to be honest I have never bothered to trying them.

Ibbo

Well yes there is the option to use a templating system but id like to know myself how its done... just for learning sake...

I probably will end up using some sort of prebuilt templating engine but id just like to know how its done...

Then check out a sample one from sourceforge.

I'm sure after trawling through 2 or 3 of them you will get the jist of how they go about it.

Ibbo

Templating is one of the things I have not had much experience with. If there was one engine I would use its one called patTemplate. There is a good devshed article here:
http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/PHP/S...th-PatTemplate

and you can visit the patTemplate site here:
http://www.php-tools.de/site.php

Sorry I can't be more help. Maybe you can check out the patTemplate code for more help.

-dk

I haven't had much experience with templates either. However Python everything depends on what you want - do you want to develop your PHP and that's why you've been writing template class or simple you want to use templates in your project?

If you want to simple use them in the project, I recommend you SMARTY: http://smarty.php.net - it's the most popular and powerful template class in PHP and therefore when you learn and understand how it works I think, that you'll be able to understand any other template classes.

Notice also, that in future SMARTY might become a part of standard PHP and that's the reason why it's sensible to choose that templates...