Help! Templates and Dynamic Content

Anon

Hola,

I'm using PHPlib's template.inc to template my site ( dev site at http://www.dev.fcPremier.com ).

It's great for static content I'm pulling out of the db, but how can I build dynamic content and still use the template.

The templating class takes variables containing data (a story, or whatever) and parses it into any of a bunch of HTML templates that I've got. But PHP code that is included in those variables does not get parsed, it simply gets passed thru as straight text or HTML.

This is a problem, because templates are great for site maintainability and updatability, but only if you use the bloody things!
:-)

I'd prefer not to end up with a bunch of templated files and a bunch of applications that are not.

I've read the column here at PHPBuilder on PHPlib templating, and in it it says: "Another advantage of PHPLIB Template is it allows dynamic blocks to be nested, unlike FastTemplates."

Is that what I need?

How do I use it?

Thanks!
-john

Anon

"But PHP code that is included in those variables does not get parsed"...

eval($var_with_php_code) ?

I tought that using templates and content pulled from a database (or whatever) was dynamic content.

Why do you want to include php code dynamically?

Anon

If the phplib template engine has a function that returns the parsed code instead of printing it then you can do it. For example in my template engine (blatent plug... 🙂 ), you could do this:

...blah...
$parsed_html = $tpl->return_file('main');

Then, simply do this to start the eval function off in html mode:

$parsed_html = '?>'.$parsed_code;
eval($parsed_html);

This will print out the html and execute what ever php is inside it.

HTH

Anon

Hi i was wondering if u had a CGI script that would create webpages from a template or anything close to that. An example of the address might be like this:
popuptemplate.asp?page=links
something thats does this and so when u change the code it will alter how all the pages look. I really need this script so please contact me by email if anybody know anything about this
thats a bunch

Anon

I don't use CGI, I use PHP.

Get PHPlib (www.netuse.de or something like that and stick the file template.inc in your includes directory.

Then call it into your 'pages' and replace the tags in {} with your content.

There's a tutorial about it in the articles here.