hiya everyone

i have made lots of html templates... but i dont no how to put the templates in using php... pwease help... you no you wanna help me ^-^

xx thx in advance for any replies

Thats very vague, perhaps I will be too...

PHP simply outputs HTML.

ok then... i have made some templates (for example i made a nav template that has the html code for the nav in it and saved it as a html doc) but i want to put all the templates together to make a web page... i dont no how to explain it properly...

Theres a couple of ways to accomplish this, the wrong way and the right way....(I know this will start a debate with someone :shrug )

The wrong way:
Use php includes to include the navigation portion within your html where you want it...

PHP Code:

<td><?php include 'nav.html'; ?></td>

The right way is to use a template engine like smarty and completely abstract your php logic from your html markup. Look into http://smarty.php.net for examples of this.

http://smarty.php.net/

Hmm, I was not the first who mentioned smarty.

I'm just starting on this intergration line myself, why would using the include be wrong?

Originally Posted by e-vange

I'm just starting on this intergration line myself, why would using the include be wrong?

The best thing you can do your future development as a php developer is to learn to use a template engine first. A lot of people call this too much overhead but it is really not.

Over there on the left underneath my avatar is a link that say's to view my blog articles or something like that, click on it and read the article I wrote about template engines.

edit: nevermind I think we got rid of the blog in favor of the new article site coming soon.

Here is a link to read instead....http://smarty.php.net/whyuse.php

Keep in mind many people will say just the opposite of what that page says. And although I do agree that smarty if very bloated it's one of the very few projects that completely abstracts your business logic from your design elements and even allows you to use looping within your templates in order to utilize one template rather than multiple templates (Xoops does this quite effectively).

So is everyone here a Smarty user?

I took a look at it once while reading "Industrail Strength MVC" at http://www.phparch.com/sample.php?mid=10. (About patterns (MVC pattern at that, intersting read for you hard core lot "I mean that too").

Anyway my point is that Smarty is not the only template engine out there, Xtemplate is my fav but they all do the same thing (some heavy some light) but the end is the same.

Ibbo

I honestly never use Smarty myself although if I were to release some sort of public project I probably would. I tout it as a good system mainly for its popularity, it is a part of so many projects and so many people have worked with it that I think it is ideal for people new to php templating.

I usually use a template engine that is private source written by our very own Chroder (he's brilliant by the way). It's extremely lightweight, provides caching, conf files and basic programming constructs. I've never really found a need for anything else.

i dont no how **** to do anything with smarty... *is confuzled*