Parse HTML tag extensions / template varaibles

Anon

Hi all.

I'm planning on building a system to allow me to more easily maintain my website. I'd like to code pages in basic HTML, then display them parsed by PHP3.

I want to add some tag extensions to my HTML pages, then have them replaced with DB content by PHP before displaying.

PHPLIB and FastTemplates seem to do this up to a point, but I don't think they can support variables in the tags. For example, they could handle {NAVBAR} but not something like {NAVBAR color="#00FF00"}.

Does PHP have a built-in function to make this simple? Or does a code library exist? I'd like to have a function that when I check a line for NAVBAR, it comes back true and gives me an array populated with the parameters and their values.

I imagine this is something like parsing HTML tags like the IMG tag.

I've written some code like this before but it was messy, checking for the position of the parameters and then storing them. And the paramters had to come in the same order every time.

Thanks for the info...

Anon

Hi i am looking for something pretty similar. If you find one or anyone finds one can u please contact me by email
thanks

Anon

Ryan, I haven't been able to try it yet since I'm still stuck with PHP3 from my ISP, but I think it could be done with the preg_replace function, using the /e option, which is only available in PHP4.

Basically, if you wanted to check for a tag that displayed the top 10 URLs, you'd do something like this:

tag is %topURLs(10)%

$content=preg_replace("/\%topURLs([0-9]{1,2}))\%/e","showTopURLs(\2)",$content);

Note that since I haven't been able to try it, I don't know if it will really work or if my regular expression is even OK.

Mike.