FastTemplate, PHP4, and stray { }

Anon

Please help!

I've been trying to make the jump to PHP4 from 3, and most of my sites use the handy dandy FastTemplate classes, and I've never had any problems in version 3 (of PHP).

However, I've upgraded to PHP4 (I assume it's an upgrade), and my FastTemplate class is now "screwing" up. Each template that it pulls in, it generates an extra { and } for the items in the template it replaces (ie, if I have {HEADER}, it inserts the data into HEADER, but doesn't yank the { or the }).

I was just at the website for FastTemplate, at www.thewebmasters.net, and downloaded the latest version -- to no avail. I also looked at the change log, and some note is made, along with a patch. I tried performing the patch -- which did no good. Same results.

If someone has a copy of a working and unaltered (no customizations) of FastTemplate, that works with PHP4 flawlessly, I would appreciate getting my hands on it very much. If you have any other thoughs, as to why I'm getting these strange { and } where I insert a template, I'm all ears.

Thanks for your help.

--Anthony

Anon

I had the same problem, but all I did to fix it was remove the {}'s from my templates.

I'm not sure why PHP 4 doesn't remove them, but the FastTemplate functions work fine without having the braces in the template files... so I just left it.

~Matt

Anon

You can also modify the FastTemplate class file and search for {$Macro} (i think) and just double the curly braces up... I think this is a better solution.. Removing the curly braces from the template my have name collision, if names are not unique

Just my two cents

Anon

I have version 1.1.0 width php4.

had same prob.
altered line 199 of class.FastTemplate.php3 to

$template = ereg_replace("{{$key}}","$val","$template");

works fine

thx for the tip!

Anon

php4 has problems (or treats it maybe differently) with "{$"-sequence.

apply patch from webmasters.net.

this

$newParent .= "{$MacroName}\n";

becomes this

$newParent .= '{'."$MacroName}\n";

have a look at the patch.

you should not omitt the curly braces! how would you distinguish the following:

<p>MAIN POWER SUPPLY</p>
(...)
MAIN
(...)

in place of

<p>MAIN POWER SUPPLY</p>
(...)
{MAIN}
(...)

maybe Trapleuning's proposal is also good. but, if it is an error in php4, it may be fixed soon? then it won't work any longer! webmaster's proposal seems to be better since it will work be it an error or not, fixed or not.

Trapleuning wrote:

I have version 1.1.0 width php4.

had same prob.
altered line 199 of class.FastTemplate.php3 to

$template = ereg_replace("{{$key}}","$val","$template");

works fine

thx for the tip!

Anon

Hi,

I also experienced these problems and I guess they result from a different behaviour of regular expressions (ereg). Besides getting braces if not applied Trapleunings change in classFastTemplate, dynamic blocks did not work. So I greated the following patch that fixes both (see bottom). All you need is to do is

copy and paste the patch into an editor and save it as FastTemplate.patch
call: "patch class.FastTemplate.php3 FastTemplate.patch" on a Unix system (on Windows I do not know).
That is all.

Have fun!!!!

tty,

Markus

----->8-- snip-snap --8<-----

--- class.FastTemplate.php3 Wed Apr 11 09:26:52 2001
+++ class.FastTemplate.php4 Wed Apr 25 17:53:12 2001
@@ -2,41 +2,48 @@

/
CVS Revision. 1.1.0
+
+ History:
+ 2001-04-25: Markus Kohler (kohler@ls7.cs.uni-dortmund.de)
+ ereg handling must have changed from PHP3 to PHP4.
+ This resulted in wrong variable resolution and
+ wrong dynamic block handling. This should be fixed now.
+
/

class FastTemplate {

var $FILELIST	=	array();	//	Holds the array of filehandles

// FILELIST[HANDLE] == "fileName"
// FILELIST[HANDLE] == "fileName"

var $DYNAMIC = array(); // Holds the array of dynamic
// blocks, and the fileHandles they
// live in.
// blocks, and the fileHandles they
// live in.

var $PARSEVARS = array(); // Holds the array of Variable
// handles.
// PARSEVARS[HANDLE] == "value"
// handles.
// PARSEVARS[HANDLE] == "value"
var $LOADED = array(); // We only want to load a template
// once - when it's used.
// LOADED[FILEHANDLE] == 1 if loaded
// undefined if not loaded yet.
var $LOADED = array(); // We only want to load a template
// once - when it's used.
// LOADED[FILEHANDLE] == 1 if loaded
// undefined if not loaded yet.
var $HANDLE = array(); // Holds the handle names assigned
// by a call to parse()
var $HANDLE = array(); // Holds the handle names assigned
// by a call to parse()
var $ROOT = ""; // Holds path-to-templates
var $ROOT = ""; // Holds path-to-templates
var $WIN32 = false; // Set to true if this is a WIN32 server
var $WIN32 = false; // Set to true if this is a WIN32 server
var $ERROR = ""; // Holds the last error message
var $ERROR = ""; // Holds the last error message
var $LAST = ""; // Holds the HANDLE to the last
// template parsed by parse()
var $LAST = ""; // Holds the HANDLE to the last
// template parsed by parse()
var $STRICT = true; // Strict template checking.
// Unresolved vars in templates will
// generate a warning when found.
var $STRICT = true; // Strict template checking.
// Unresolved vars in templates will
// generate a warning when found.

// ************************************************************

@@ -196,7 +203,7 @@
settype($val,"string");
}

$template = ereg_replace("{$key}","$val","$template");
$template = ereg_replace("{{$key}}","$val","$template");
//$template = str_replace("{$key}","$val","$template");
}
}
@@ -205,12 +212,12 @@
{
// Silently remove anything not already found
$template = ereg_replace("{([A-Z0-9_]+)}","",$template);
$template = ereg_replace("{{([A-Z0-9_]+)}}","",$template);
}
else
{
// Warn about unresolved template variables
if (ereg("({[A-Z0-9_]+})",$template))
if (ereg("({{[A-Z0-9_]+}})",$template))
{
$unknown = split("\n",$template);
while (list ($Element,$Line) = each($unknown) )
@@ -410,7 +417,7 @@
}
if($end)
{
$newParent .= "{$MacroName}\n";
$newParent .= "{{$MacroName}}\n";
}
// Next line please
if($end) { $end = false; }
@@ -747,6 +754,6 @@

// ************************************************************

-} // End class.FastTemplate.php3
+} // End class.FastTemplate.php4

-?>
\ No newline at end of file
+?>

Anon

I applied this patch (per hand) but i still have the { } ariund my code... can't somebody post the entire source of the FastTemplate class or the url of a patched version ?

thx all

Anon

yes... please someone post a like to a patched version cos I'm running windows and have no idea how to patch it from that code.

Thanx

Anon

You can download the php3->php4 patched version from:

http://ii-consult.com/downloads/class.FastTemplate.php4.gz

It works for me.

Cheers,

Badri